Many thanks. That's worked fine. Kirill
Quoting Kyle Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday, October 16 at 09:32 PM, quoth K C H Mackenzie: > > Hello. I am having trouble setting up Mutt to send mail through IMAP on a > > university server. > > I can see your problem already! IMAP is not a protocol that is > normally used for *sending* email. There are two nearly-identical > protocols that are used for sending email (SMTP and SUBMISSION), but > IMAP is only used for *reading* email. > > > When I finish composing and type `y' I get `Sending message' and > > `Mail sent' quickly but no messages have reached their targets. > > What's probably happening is that mutt is using the program > /usr/sbin/sendmail to send email. This is probably provided by exim4 > on your Ubuntu installation, which is probably not set up correctly > for your network (i.e. it's probably got a default configuration), > thus, the mail never leaves your computer. > > In order to send mail with mutt, you either need to configure it to > use a mail sending program (such as exim4 or, more minimally, msmtp > (http://msmtp.sf.net)) that is correctly configured OR you need to > configure mutt to send the mail directly. To do the latter, you'll > need to add some things to your muttrc, specifically, an $smtp_url > setting. It would probably look something like this: > > set smtp_url="smtps://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/" > > > Since I can read/move/delete mail, the problem can't be access to > > the IMAP server as such. > > Indeed, you are correct! > > ~Kyle > - -- > Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to > its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and > beautiful women abound. > -- Albert Einstein > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Comment: Thank you for using encryption! > > iEYEARECAAYFAkj3qXEACgkQBkIOoMqOI16WdwCdGmq2+jTlweJJvO+Y2YIv+vac > S60AoLj8FhAzv2ND/hNRzs97qrbJwa8V > =e+Oz > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > ================================================== http://kchmackenzie.staff.shef.ac.uk/ ==================================================
