Mutt/Sendmail/Gmail configuration issue

[Freddy Boisseau]

I am having a problem with my configuration of Mutt. When I send an email out using the Mutt client, the email does not have a from address and it also seems the Mutt client hangs when sending out the email. I do not have either problem when I use another mail client such as mail or mailx to send an email.

My system is configured to use sendmail to send out email via Gmail. This is a setup that I had on my old server and everything worked fine. I have compared the configuration on both system and from what I can see they are the same.

Can anyone point me at things to look to resolve this system?

 

[chrbr]

I do not have either problem when I use another mail client such as mail or mailx to send an email.

In this case I would look at the configuration of mutt.

This is a setup that I had on my old server and everything worked fine. I have compared the configuration on both system and from what I can see they are the same.

Please re-verify that the relevant ~/.muttrc/ or ~/.mutt/muttrc are similar. If they are similar I guess that the sendmail version might not be exactly the same or something else modifies something. Or the mutt version is different and uses different defaults. Then I would try to adopt the variables as

set sendmail=xyz
set realname="xyz"
set from="xyz@abc.def"
set use_from=yes

to the settings which your working mail clients use.
I am not a sendmail expert. This is just a suggestion.

 

[scottro]

I've been using mail/mstmp for this for years. I have a page on mutt at http://srobb.net/mutt.html which goes into detail. The last time I tried with Gmail, I think my config was something like this, assuming the user name is john and the password 1234.

set smtp_url="smtp://john@gmail.com@smtp.gmail.com:587"
set smtp_pass="1234"

But that was a long time ago, and I don't know if it would still work.

 

[Freddy Boisseau]

Thanks for the help. I was able to resolve the from address using the EMAIL system variable. I found a work around to the speed issue, but that points to the problem being with the configuration of sendmail or a network issue. I added the following to the global mutt configuration file:

set sendmail_wait=-1

Which causes mutt to not wait for conformation from sendmail before proceeding. I will be checking that out next.

Thank you for the help.

 

[Freddy Boisseau]

Okay, the problem was a Sendmail issue. Basically your server name has to be fully qualified in order for Sendmail to work smoothly. I fixed that problem by editing the entry for the server in the /etc/host file, extending it with an entry in the format <machine>.<domain>.com. For example:

192.168.0.0   my_server my_mailhost my_mailhost.my_company.com.

Thank you