On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 03:04:19PM -0700, Larry Smith wrote: | I still don't get the mutt setup. It was rather easy | to set up balsa, but mutt simply won't get mail out to | yahoo (or anyplace other than my email account at my | internet server). As Grant said, *it is not mutt*. It is exim that you have misconfigured. | I get email from my pop account through mutt. This is irrelevant because POP is a retrieval protocol, and has nothing to do with sending (SMTP). | The server is setup as in balsa. No it's not. In balsa, you tell it the SMTP server to use, and what envelope and header from to use. (I just installed balsa to verify that) Mutt instead passes the message to your local MTA (as specified by the $sendmail variable, but the default is correct) | But mutt always gets yahoo sent email bounced back as | folows: | | SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL | FROM:<my_linux_user_name> SIZE=1468: | host mx2.mail.yahoo.com [64.157.4.88]: | 501 Syntax error in parameters or arguments What *EXACTLY* is <my_linux_user_name>? $ telnet mx2.mail.yahoo.com smtp Trying 64.157.4.82... Connected to mta-v12.level3.mail.yahoo.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 YSmtp mta614.mail.yahoo.com ESMTP service ready EHLO dman.ddts.net 250-mta614.mail.yahoo.com 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 5242880 250 PIPELINING MAIL FROM:<dman@dman.ddts.net> SIZE=1468 250 sender <dman@dman.ddts.net> ok RSET 250 reset ok MAIL FROM:<fubar> SIZE=1468 501 Syntax error in parameters or arguments QUIT 221 mta614.mail.yahoo.com Connection closed by foreign host. | I must have missed on of the 200 or so variables in | the .muttrc file. Not there. Show us what is in /etc/email-addresses instead. You need to put the line my_linux_user_name: doccpu@yahoo.com in there. (replace "my_linux_user_name" with your actual user name) HTH, -D -- Windows, hmmm, does it come with a GUI interface that works or just pretty blue screens? http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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