Unexplained mutt error

Ranjan Maitra mlmaitra at gmx.com
Wed Feb 23 03:18:08 UTC 2022


I think the OPs problem is with sending, not accessing email.

Ranjan

On Wed Feb23'22 02:29:12AM, Sam Kuper wrote:
> From: Sam Kuper <sampablokuper at posteo.net>
> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 02:29:12 +0000
> To: mutt-users at mutt.org
> Subject: Re: Unexplained mutt error
>
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 04:40:06PM -0600, Ion wrote:
> > 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.  [...]
> > Much as I want to use a CLI client, Thunderbird, Claws, and Evolution
> > were able to connect me within 15 minutes ...
>
> Have you tried using Getmail (or Fetchmail, or mbsync, or OfflineIMAP,
> etc - i.e. an MRA (mail retrieval agent)) to get a copy of your mail
> from your Fastmail server to a local Mbox or Maildir?
>
> If you can get that working, then you can just point Mutt at the
> resulting Mbox or Maildir on your local drive, and read your mail that
> way:
>
>     mutt -R -f /path/to/local/mbox/or/maildir
>
> I.e. rely only on Mutt's MUA functionality, not its MRA functionality.
>
> You might even be able to point Mutt at wherever Thunderbird keeps your
> local mailstore, depending on how you have Thunderbird configured.  I.e.
> let Thunderbird act as your MRA and use Mutt as your MUA:
>
>     mutt -R -f /path/to/local/Thunderbird/mail/store
>
> Don't give up!
>
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