On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 06:10:51PM -0600, Ion wrote:
I tried both set smtp_url ="smtp://smtp.fastmail.com:465" and set
smtp_url ="smtp://smtp.fastmail.com:587" and got "SMTP session failed:
530 5.7.1 Authentication required".
You'll need to add your username to the $smtp_url, so something like
Piet wrote:
>
> Dear Charles,
>
> thank you for the hint.
You're most welcome.
> I'll try harder to get it work now, because I'm sure if will be possible.
Someone else said I should have given the answer here, even though it is
off-topic.
For getmail, in the [options] section of your rc
I tried both set smtp_url ="smtp://smtp.fastmail.com:465" and set
smtp_url ="smtp://smtp.fastmail.com:587" and got "SMTP session failed:
530 5.7.1 Authentication required".
I used the same password as IMAP as the Fastmail help page tells me
"Your app-specific password. You cannot use your
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
Since my previous attempts failed I decided to go the default route
using Fastmail IMAP and SMTP as advised on their web help page. I set my
.muttrc file as follows, hoping it would be easier to resolve the problem.
set imap_user=ionm...@eml.cc
set imap_pass="my fastmail password"
set realname
Dear Charles,
thank you for the hint.
I'll try harder to get it work now, because I'm sure if will be possible.
But regarding fetchmail, the logs said that both options can't
be used together (On a Debian testing system):
With fetchmailrc:
options keep fetchall ssl mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d
Piet wrote:
>
> It seems, that fetchmail receives emails from imap, but only in two
> ways which can not be combined:
[...]
> Getmail seems to work similar to fetchmail.
> Is there the opportunity to fetch and filter email without deleting it in
> the external imap account?
As the author of
Dear List,
before I use email with several devices, I used fetchmail and procmail
to receive and filter email.
I switched from pop3 to (external) imap and have some question how to deal with
mutt and mailfiltering.
It seems, that fetchmail receives emails from imap, but only in two
ways which
