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Ben9250

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From: Bath - England

Registered: 2010-06-10

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[SOLVED] Mutt hotmail SMTP

Hi I'm trying to learn to use Mutt for my emails, I've currently got email's coming in but when I try to send a test mail to myself it says the connection timed out. I'm using live/hotmail, so smtp.live.com I followed the instructions on the wiki and have the following in my .muttrc file:

 set mbox_type=Maildir
set folder=$HOME/Mail
set spoolfile=+/inbox
set header_cache=~/.hcache

set my_pass=mypasswd*
set my_user=myusername*

set smtp_url=smtps://$myusername:$mypasswd@smtp.live.com
set ssl_force_tls = yes 

*My username and password are real and present in the actual file.

Is there something I'm doing wrong? I know there was another external smtp way/example of doing it. Should I have done that instead? I'm hoping to have this replace all my current email uses so if anyone has any other points to look out for or to investigate I'd like to hear about them too.

[EDIT] Reading more about it I've come across sendmail which isn't mentioned in the smtp section of the Mutt wiki, do I need sendmail or will it make things easier?
[SOLVED] The smtp_url has smtp:// and not smtps:// like I think gmail does.
Cheers,
Ben.

Last edited by Ben9250 (2010-08-28 14:50:46)

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