Unexplained mutt error

[Ion]

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://ionmich@eml.cc@smtp.fastmail.com:587"
>>>
>>> and also tried
>>>
>>> set smtp_url ="smtp://ionmich@eml.cc@smtp.fastmail.com:465"
>>>
>>
>> set smtp_url ="smtps://ionmich@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://ionmich@eml.cc@' prefix stored in $smtp_url.
>
> You can also check the value at runtime by typing ':set ?smtp_url' and
> hitting return.
>