Re: SMTP authentication
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 01:39:32PM +0100, Luca Matteis wrote:
> I am using an smtp server which requires authentication. The issue is that
> the username must be provided in the form of domain/user.
> I have this in my .muttrc:
>
> set smtp_url = "smtp://domain/user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:587/"
> set smtp_pass = "xxxx"
>
> When I try sending an email through Mutt this is what I get:
>
> Could not find the host "domain"
>
> What's happening here? What's the correct syntax for this?
The slash in the user name is terminating the host portion of the URL. It
should work if you URL-encode is, like this:
"smtp://domain%2fuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:587/"
>>> Dan