On 1 Nov, 14:02, Richard Seeder <aa...@att.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:33:20 -0400, Jeff Hyman <scol...@cactus.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> >While executing mutt I am getting a random error:
>
> >Error sending message, child exited 70 (Internal error).
> >Mutt[13]:10786 Memory fault(core dump)
>
> >Can anyone shed some light on this?
> >The is a core file left behind.
>
> >TIA,
> >Jeff H
>
> I see this when the MTA (in my case, generally msmtp) tries to connect
> to a smart host and errors out, usually because of an authentication
> problem. Mutt, for some reason, can't handle the error return.
>
> --
> Richard Seeder

I've seen this too when there are in general problems communicating
with the remote smarthost or badhost. Things such as the following can
cause it :

1) Unix server isn't allowed to relay to the smarthost
2) Unix server can't resolve the name / IP for the smarthost

etc etc

I hope this helps.