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obiwan

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Registered: 2010-02-04

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[SOLVED] mutt imap login just sits there

Hello. New to Archlinux and to mutt but no stranger to Linux in general.

Yesterday I installed mutt on my new workstation in Archlinux, and on my laptop in Gentoo.

When I run mutt on my laptop (Gentoo), it prompts for my password, then fetches the mail listing from my IMAP server.

When I run mutt on my workstation (Archlinux), it prompts for my password, then just sits there saying "Logging in..." for 10 minutes, then reports "User input timeout," then "Login failed."

Identical very simple .muttrc on both systems:

set spoolfile=imap://mail.example.com/INBOX
set imap_user=myaddress@example.com
set folder=imap://mail.example.com/

Seems to me if it works in Gentoo it ought to work in Archlinux too. Any ideas what I might be missing?

Thanks.

Last edited by obiwan (2010-02-04 19:30:09)

Ashren

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Re: [SOLVED] mutt imap login just sits there

Try:

set spoolfile=imaps://mail.example.com/INBOX
set imap_user=myaddress@example.com
set folder=imaps://mail.example.com/
mailboxes=INBOX

Notice the specific use of "imaps".

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obiwan

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Registered: 2010-02-04

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Re: [SOLVED] mutt imap login just sits there

Thanks Ashren. I appreciate the input.

The 'mailboxes=INBOX' line causes it to say:

Error in ~/.muttrc, line 4: mailboxes=INBOX: unknown command
source: errors in ~/.muttrc

Adding 'imaps' does not work because the server does not support SSL. It says "Connection refused."

However in a roundabout way that got me thinking about authentication methods, so I managed to fix it by setting:

set imap_authenticators=LOGIN

It worked without this on Gentoo because I had compiled it without SASL support.