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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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