Sorry for not recalling this from your earlier e-mail, but what exactly were
the claws-mail settings?
Did you make sure about smtps? In my limited experience, though mail providers
talk about smtp and 587 port, many of them only work with smtps and 465.
I moved from sylpheed to mutt, and the helpful people here and looking around
got me going eventually.
For me, the magic was the equivalent of what for you would be:
set smtp_url ="smtps://ionm...@eml.cc@smtp.fastmail.com:465" set ssl_force_tls
= yes set ssl_starttls = yes'
Of course, getting the password, etc right.
As an aside, for others: is there, in .muttrc a way to set things such that
hitting "r" would automatically switch to reply list ("L") for specific folders?
I have seen that for some list mail, "r" responds to list, and for others, to
the sender.
Many thanks and best wishes,
Ranjan
On Tue Feb22'22 04:40:06PM, Ion wrote:
> From: Ion <ionm...@gmx.us>
> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 16:40:06 -0600
> To: mutt-users@mutt.org
> Subject: Re: Unexplained mutt error
>
> Thanks to all of you for trying to solve my problem. But I have been
> trying to setup mutt for nine days now. I have followed all your advice
> and instructions to the best of my ability, to no avail. My E-mail
> providers don't seem to know that CLI clients exist. They keep asking me
> to take a snapshot of the preferences menu. Much as I want to use a CLI
> client, Thunderbird, Claws, and Evolution were able to connect me within
> 15 minutes so I will go back to Thunderbird. And truthfully it's
> Fastmail that's the problem as other accounts work as expected.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> On 22/02/2022 16:15, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 02:34:05PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > > On Tue Feb22'22 02:06:57PM, Ion wrote:
> > > > As instructed I changed it to...
> > > >
> > > > set smtp_url ="smtp://ionm...@eml.cc@smtp.fastmail.com:587"
> > > >
> > > > and also tried
> > > >
> > > > set smtp_url ="smtp://ionm...@eml.cc@smtp.fastmail.com:465"
> > > >
> > >
> > > set smtp_url ="smtps://ionm...@eml.cc@smtp.fastmail.com:465"
> >
> > Thanks Ranjan - that's right. Remember port 465 uses smtps://
> >
> > > > both produced "Invalid SMTP URL: smtp.fastmail.com:465"
> >
> > Check your muttrc to make sure you don't have the value specified
> > twice or something. That error message prints out the full value of
> > $smtp_url, so somehow Mutt has the value minus the
> > 'smtps://ionm...@eml.cc@' prefix stored in $smtp_url.
> >
> > You can also check the value at runtime by typing ':set ?smtp_url' and
> > hitting return.
> >
