Mutt bash script sends email fine from command line but not from motioneye notification hook

Question

So I'm about ready to pull my hair out on this one. I am running ssmtp and mutt on a freeBSD jail. I have a bash script called notify that contains the following line.

mutt -s "$subject" "$email" -a "$attachment" < "$logfile3"

When I run

bash notify.sh

The email will send just fine, but if I run that exact same command from inside motioneye I receive an extremely non-descript error from mutt

Could not send the message

I have tried using a daemon but that hasn't had any effect. I wish the mutt error message was more descriptive.

Answer 1

My script did not have access to the "sent" mailbox and therefore mutt was failing to send. -e "set copy=no" added to the mutt call corrected the issue.

For a better walkthrough: https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/issues/119