Re: Sending mail through IMAP fails
Many thanks. That's worked fine.
Kirill
Quoting Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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> On Thursday, October 16 at 09:32 PM, quoth K C H Mackenzie:
> > Hello. I am having trouble setting up Mutt to send mail through IMAP on a
> > university server.
>
> I can see your problem already! IMAP is not a protocol that is
> normally used for *sending* email. There are two nearly-identical
> protocols that are used for sending email (SMTP and SUBMISSION), but
> IMAP is only used for *reading* email.
>
> > When I finish composing and type `y' I get `Sending message' and
> > `Mail sent' quickly but no messages have reached their targets.
>
> What's probably happening is that mutt is using the program
> /usr/sbin/sendmail to send email. This is probably provided by exim4
> on your Ubuntu installation, which is probably not set up correctly
> for your network (i.e. it's probably got a default configuration),
> thus, the mail never leaves your computer.
>
> In order to send mail with mutt, you either need to configure it to
> use a mail sending program (such as exim4 or, more minimally, msmtp
> (http://msmtp.sf.net)) that is correctly configured OR you need to
> configure mutt to send the mail directly. To do the latter, you'll
> need to add some things to your muttrc, specifically, an $smtp_url
> setting. It would probably look something like this:
>
> set smtp_url="smtps://user:password@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/"
>
> > Since I can read/move/delete mail, the problem can't be access to
> > the IMAP server as such.
>
> Indeed, you are correct!
>
> ~Kyle
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