On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 04:04:51PM +0100, sqli...@posteo.co.uk wrote: > > Spec: Debian 7 "Wheezy", Mutt 1.5.21. I'm successfully connecting to IMAPS > using TLS1.2 and can retrieve mail. Sending is set up to use Mutt's built-in > SMTPS capability, though because of the problems below I haven't been able > to confirm it works yet. >
As I understand Mutt doesn't send the emails. It delegates the job to some Mail Trasport Agent (MTA). On *nix systems, usually it is sendmail, sometimes postfix, or msmtp. I use sendmail since it comes as default with my distribution. I did not configure anything. I believe you can choose this by setting the sendmail variable like this: set sendmail="your_favourite_mta --args" Apart from this, all I do in my ~/.muttrc to send emails is: set smtp_url="smtp://usern...@smtp.example.com:587/" set smtp_pass=mypassword set from="usern...@example.com" > 2) During the same process above, when Mutt asks me to authenticate for > IMAPS, it asks for my login username, but pre-fills the field with my > current user account. How can I amend this behaviour so that it uses the > IMAP username by default? A web search reveals the, "mutt_addr_is_user" > variable, but a search on the wiki and in the manual for this term gives no > results. This should work; set imap_user=username Hope this helps, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.
