Unexplained mutt error

[Ion]

On 20/02/2022 12:37, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:

> Please don't reply to me personally, it's poor etiquette.  Redirecting
> back to the mailing list.
Understood. I apologize.
>
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 11:55:06AM -0600, Ion wrote:
>> Thanks for the speedy reply. There was no prompt. So I added "set
>> confirmcreate = yes" to my .muttrc file and tried gain. No change.
>> Another observation. Mutt shows my IMAP inbox. It seems the problem lies
>> with the SMTP request.
>
> I'm not sure why you aren't seeing a "Create xxx?" prompt first.
> Still, I hypothesize this is from your 'set record ="+Sent"' setting.

I see no "Create xxx" prompt.

>
> Are you sure you have a "Sent" folder on your mail.messagingengine.com
> account, that you can access and write to?

Well if I don't have access to it why does...

:~> echo "" | mutt -s "subject" -i file.txt ionmich at gmx.us" work when it
uses the same .muttrc file?

>
> On Fastmail, for instance, the correct setting is:
>   set record = "+Sent Items"
> but perhaps their 'pobox' users are configured differently.

I changed it to "+Sent Items".  Nothing changed.

>
> -Kevin