-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/" > Since I can read/move/delete mail, the problem can't be access to > the IMAP server as such. Indeed, you are correct! ~Kyle - -- Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound. -- Albert Einstein -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iEYEARECAAYFAkj3qXEACgkQBkIOoMqOI16WdwCdGmq2+jTlweJJvO+Y2YIv+vac S60AoLj8FhAzv2ND/hNRzs97qrbJwa8V =e+Oz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
