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Hi all,

Just installed mutt and followed the directions in this linuxjournal article. Having difficulty logging in (or so it seems). Found several beginner and advanced tutorials ion mutt on the net, but most are outdated or inaccurate.

Behavior: when running mutt for the first time, I get a certificate from my email provider - which I suppose means I'm connecting to them ok. I choose option to accept always - this saves the cert but the next time I run mutt, it prompts me to accept again, and if I select accept always it warns me that it could not save (if I delete the previously saved cert, this save succeeds).

The more pressing problem: It shows a message at the bottom - "Logging In..." and hangs there forever. I need to close the terminal session (konsole) to exit.

Mutt shows me an INBOX mailbox with 0 messages. I have also created (manually) the ~/Mail/Inbox, ~/Mail/Sent and ~/Mail/draft folders.

I also tried sending, by picking a name in abook and pressing m to send with mutt, but since I can't log in, it makes sense that it would fail.

Please, any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Running mutt version 1.5.18 from konsole prompt, ubuntu jaunty, under gnome. Here is my .muttrc file, minus the pretty colors stuff and with fake names for privacy:

Code:

# Local folder

set mbox_type=Maildir

set folder=~/Mail



# IMAP Settings

set realname="me myself"

#set folder=imaps://mail.soandso.net

set spoolfile=imaps://mail.soandso.net/Inbox

set record=imaps://mail.soandso.net/Sent

set postponed=mail.soandso.net/Draft

mailboxes =INBOX # check for new email here

set header_cache=~/.mutt_cache



set from="Me Myself <memyself@soandso.net>"

set imap_user=memyself@soandso.net

set header_cache=~/.mutt_cache

set smtp_url="smtps://memyself\@soandso.net@mail.soandso.net/"



# Reading Mail

set timeout=10  

set mail_check=5

set sort=threads

set sort_aux=date

set move=no    

set mark_old=no

ignore * # ignore all headers except for ...

unignore Date: From: To: CC: Bcc: Subject:

hdr_order Subject: Date: From: To: CC: Bcc:

set index_format="%{%b %d} %-15.15L [%Z] %s" # custom index format



# Composing Mail

set editor="nano"

set markers=no

#set signature=~/.sig

set include=yes

set forward_format="Fwd: %s"



# Sending Mail

set copy=yes

set smtp_url="smtps://memyself\@soandso.net@mail.mailsnare.net/"