On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 06:45:07PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: > 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" > According to the wiki: "Mutt, by itself, cannot send mail (new in 1.5.14: it can)." I'm using 1.5.21. I'm not sure if I'm just misunderstanding that statement or what, but when I send I still see mention of postfix in the logs - I think that's what my IMAP provider uses, though, not me.
> > 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? > > This should work; > > set imap_user=username > > Hope this helps, Funnily enough, adding this one line seems to have fixed both problems. Happy days. Thanks!
