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 <sampabloku...@posteo.net> > Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 02:29:12 +0000 > To: mutt-users@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! > > -- > A: When it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: When is top-posting a bad thing? > > () ASCII ribbon campaign. Please avoid HTML emails & proprietary > /\ file formats. (Why? See e.g. https://v.gd/jrmGbS ). Thank you.
