msmtp not sending emails

unpleasant · 2014-03-31 20:58:16

Hello everyone,

First timer in these forums although I've been lurking for a while now. Thing is that although the Mutt package in the repositories is compiled with SMTP support I wanted to make my system more *NIX-like hence I thought of making use of an external program. I went for msmtp since it was a well documented setup, but I can't really send emails. My current setup looks like the following:

# Accounts will inherit settings from defaults section
defaults
auth            on
tls             on
host            smtp.domain.tld
port            587
protocol        smtp
tls_nocertcheck

# Main, personal account
account  me
from     me@domain.tld
user     me@domain.tld
password pass1

# Mailing list mail goes here
account  ml
from     ml@domain.tld
user     ml@domain.tld
password pass2

I know for a fact these setting work since I have Thunderbird working with the very same settings in other computer running Ubuntu. However when trying to send an email with msmtp it always get stuck like:

130:272:alex@archie ~/tmp ]$ cat testmail | msmtp -d -a me -- test@mailinator.com
ignoring system configuration file /etc/msmtprc: No such file or directory
loaded user configuration file /home/alex/.msmtprc
using account me from /home/alex/.msmtprc
host                  = smtp.domain.tld
port                  = 587
timeout               = off
protocol              = smtp
domain                = localhost
auth                  = choose
user                  = me@domain.tld
password              = *
passwordeval          = (not set)
ntlmdomain            = (not set)
tls                   = on
tls_starttls          = on
tls_trust_file        = (not set)
tls_crl_file          = (not set)
tls_fingerprint       = (not set)
tls_key_file          = (not set)
tls_cert_file         = (not set)
tls_certcheck         = off
tls_force_sslv3       = off
tls_min_dh_prime_bits = (not set)
tls_priorities        = (not set)
auto_from             = off
maildomain            = (not set)
from                  = me@domain.tld
dsn_notify            = (not set)
dsn_return            = (not set)
keepbcc               = off
logfile               = (not set)
syslog                = (not set)
aliases               = (not set)
reading recipients from the command line

Am I missing some essential parameter that I'm not aware of? Is there any better way to debug? This output is not really helpful...

loafer · 2014-03-31 21:06:09

Sorry, ignore this post.

Last edited by loafer (2014-03-31 21:06:53)

jasonwryan · 2014-03-31 21:22:14

Try adding a default account:

account default : me

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#1 2014-03-31 20:58:16

msmtp not sending emails

#2 2014-03-31 21:06:09

Re: msmtp not sending emails

#3 2014-03-31 21:22:14

Re: msmtp not sending emails

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