My apologies:
> 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' This got mangled. set smtp_url ="smtps://ionm...@eml.cc@smtp.fastmail.com:465"; set ssl_force_tls = yes; set ssl_starttls = yes' or set smtp_url ="smtps://ionm...@eml.cc@smtp.fastmail.com:465" set ssl_force_tls = yes set ssl_starttls = yes' btw, if your password has special characters, you may need to have the escape character sequence in place. Example: "\$" for "$". Ranjan > > 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. > > >