New to Mutt, unable to send messages in *any* attempted way

2022-05-05 Thread xtec
Hello. I already tried every way I could imagine to debug my problem, and simply no dice; thus trying to post everything here as last resort. Using Mutt 1.10.1 (cannot update for now; please don't ask why) Using Postfix /usr/sbin/sendmail ($sendmail variable is empty) Remote mail server just

Re: New to Mutt, unable to send messages in *any* attempted way

2022-05-05 Thread xtec
On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 12:07:44PM -0500, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: 1) On the command line, the shell will expand shell variables inside double quoted strings, before Mutt even sees it. So in the part "set smtp_url=smtp://$my_user@$my_url" Mutt is probably only seeing "set smtp_url=smtp://@", bec

Re: New to Mutt, unable to send messages in *any* attempted way

2022-05-06 Thread xtec
Thanks again. As mentioned in first message, system has Postfix by default, with its corresponding /usr/sbin/sendmail and /etc/postfix/main.cf . Since I don't have anything for $sendmail variable, it's defaulting indeed for Postix sendmail. On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 19:19:45 -0500, Cameron Si

Re: New to Mutt, unable to send messages in *any* attempted way

2022-05-09 Thread xtec
Sorry for late answering... On Sun, May 08, 2022 at 04:25:05PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: You're failing in this because you have $smtp_url defined. Comment out it and the other $smtp* variables. When you send with $sendmail (the local system's mail system, postfix for you) the smtp settin

Re: Having problems with POP3 setup

2022-09-03 Thread xtec
Thanks for all the advice. I did give Getmail a try, and you're right: it has more features. I'd probably try using it for daily use, like Msmtp, if it weren't for 2 issues: ---No STARTTLS support, only SSL: author at the mailing lists seems to not like very much the idea of implementing it. --

Two doubts about POP3 and IMAP

2022-09-07 Thread xtec
Why isn't there a default binding for the "imap-fetch-mail" function, just like 'G' for POP3? I know I can assign it, but was curious If "LAST" command has been deprecated since long ago, is there a reason to still keep it? In the case of Getmail, is it that it actually does not use this command