Unexplained mutt error

[Kevin J. McCarthy]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 02:46:11PM -0600, Ion wrote:
>set smtp_url ="smtp://smtp.fastmail.com:465"

>But the response was...
>
>"SMTP session failed: read error"

The prefix 'smtps://' should be used with port 465:
   set smtp_url ="smtps://smtp.fastmail.com:465"

Alternatively you can use 'smtp://' with port 587 to use STARTTLS:
   set smtp_url ="smtp://smtp.fastmail.com:587"

>set timeout=15
>set mail_check=1

You didn't ask, but as an aside, $mail_check of 1 is a bit too 
aggressive for IMAP.  <http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#imap> suggests
   set mail_check=90
   set timeout=15
which I think is a fairly balanced approach.

-- 
Kevin J. McCarthy
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