Unexplained mutt error

[Ranjan Maitra]

My apologies:


> For me, the magic was the equivalent of what for you would be:
>
> set smtp_url ="smtps://ionmich@eml.cc@smtp.fastmail.com:465" set ssl_force_tls = yes set ssl_starttls = yes'

This got mangled.

set smtp_url ="smtps://ionmich@eml.cc@smtp.fastmail.com:465"; set ssl_force_tls = yes; set ssl_starttls = yes'

or

 set smtp_url ="smtps://ionmich@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 <ionmich at gmx.us>
> > Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 16:40:06 -0600
> > To: mutt-users at 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://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.
> > >