[SOLVED] Unable to configure Mutt email client

Raakh5 · 08-08-2014, 06:48 AM

Hello,

Code:

CentOS release 6.5 (Final)
LSB_VERSION=base-4.0-amd64:base-4.0-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch
CentOS release 6.5 (Final)
CentOS release 6.5 (Final)

I install Mutt with command as "yum install mutt" thereafter I configured it as following:

Code:

vi .muttrc

set imap_user = "userName@gmail.com"
set imap_pass = "password"

set smtp_url = "smtp://userName@smtp.gmail.com:587/"
set smtp_pass = "password"

set from = "userName@gmail.com"
set realname = "Sender Name"

set folder = "imaps://imap.gmail.com:993"
set spoolfile = "+INBOX"
set postponed="+[Gmail]/Drafts"

set header_cache=~/.mutt/cache/headers
set message_cachedir=~/.mutt/cache/bodies
set certificate_file=~/.mutt/certificates

set move = no

when I run command as mutt then login failed message appears and when I use the following command:

Code:

echo "this is an email" | mutt -s "test Subject" mymail@yahoo.com

It displays:

Code:

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Kindly advise

Thanks in anticipation

frankbell · 08-08-2014, 08:52 PM

I have no idea why you segfaulted, but I have been playing with Mutt myself recently. So far, I've got it working with two accounts on Mageia and with one account on Slackware.

My approach was first to make sure Mutt could receive mail before I tried to send mail. I ended up using msmtp as an MTA to send mail, even though Mutt has SMTP capabilities. Mutt's internal SMTP did not work and play nicely with me, but that was probably me.

I relied primarily on these two websites to get Mutt working:

http://docs.huihoo.com/gentoo/resour...e-to-mutt.html (Note that the references to "emerge" refer to the Gentoo package manager, which is called "emerge."

http://www.calmar.ws/mutt/

This website will tell you how to turn on debugging in Mutt; that should help in figuring out what's going wrong: http://dev.mutt.org/trac/wiki/DebugTips

Raakh5 · 08-09-2014, 09:06 AM

Hello,

Thanks for your favorable reply.

I checked http://docs.huihoo.com/gentoo/resour...e-to-mutt.html that says to install many software to work with Mutt. presently our dedicated server running centos and qmail as incoming and outgoing server. please let me sure if I install all software on the server that are listed in aforementioned link then nothing will be wrong with qmail settings.

Thanks again & best regards

Raakh5 · 08-10-2014, 02:50 AM

Code:

# mutt -v
Mutt 1.5.22 (2013-10-16)
Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.

System: Linux 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 (x86_64)
ncurses: ncurses 5.7.20090207 (compiled with 5.7)

Compiler:
Using built-in specs.
Target: x86_64-redhat-linux
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-bootstrap --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --disable-libjava-multilib --with-ppl --with-cloog --with-tune=generic --with-arch_32=i686 --build=x86_64-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4) (GCC) 

Configure options: '--with-ssl' '--with-sasl' '--enable-imap' '--enable-smtp' '--enable-debug'

Compilation CFLAGS: -Wall -pedantic -Wno-long-long -g -O2

Compile options:
-DOMAIN
+DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL  +USE_SETGID  +USE_DOTLOCK  +DL_STANDALONE  +USE_FCNTL  -USE_FLOCK   
-USE_POP  +USE_IMAP  +USE_SMTP  
+USE_SSL_OPENSSL  -USE_SSL_GNUTLS  +USE_SASL  -USE_GSS  +HAVE_GETADDRINFO  
+HAVE_REGCOMP  -USE_GNU_REGEX  
+HAVE_COLOR  +HAVE_START_COLOR  +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD  +HAVE_BKGDSET  
+HAVE_CURS_SET  +HAVE_META  +HAVE_RESIZETERM  
+CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP  +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME  -CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME  
-EXACT_ADDRESS  -SUN_ATTACHMENT  
+ENABLE_NLS  -LOCALES_HACK  +HAVE_WC_FUNCS  +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET  +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR  
+HAVE_ICONV  -ICONV_NONTRANS  -HAVE_LIBIDN  +HAVE_GETSID  -USE_HCACHE  
-ISPELL
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/mail"
PKGDATADIR="/usr/local/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/usr/local/etc"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
-MIXMASTER
To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt-dev@mutt.org>.
To report a bug, please visit http://bugs.mutt.org/.

frankbell · 08-10-2014, 09:15 PM

SMTP capability and Debug mode are both present.

And your question is?

Raakh5 · 08-11-2014, 03:07 AM

Hello,

I tried for the last 2 days but was unable to fix it. Today I just gone to the gmail.com settings and there is an option of "less security" to connect mobile and other devices. I checked this and mutt start working fine without any problem

Thanks from the bottom of my heart

Best regards

frankbell · 08-11-2014, 08:58 PM

Glad you got it working.