Problem sending an email via mutt

Question

I'm trying to send an email using mutt like this:

echo 1.txt | mutt [email protected] -s Hello -a file.tar.bz2

It's getting no error, but I didn't receive the email. What's the problem?

Solution 1

Assuming that you are using a local smtp server, have you checked the maillog? If that is the case, please post some of the log...

Solution 2

Try launching mutt with debug level 1 with the command: mutt -d 1

I solved my problem this way (the certificate couldn't be saved, and mutt was silently not sending emails).

Comments

[Sina]

I'll be thankful if you tell me where can I find the log.

[Dan6073]

There are 2 logs that could be relevant: /var/log/mail.log and /var/log/mail.err It sounds thought that you don't have a mail server setup on your machine, did you configure mutt for a Gmail account?

[IgorGanapolsky]

Why does it actually put the message into /var/mail/ instead of sending it to the destination?

[Lampard]

Yes, mutt -d 1 is really useful, especially after setup .muttrc file (refer to unix.stackexchange.com/questions/451259/…, the password should be application access password) and gmail application-specific password (refer to unix.stackexchange.com/questions/226936/…), then run only with mutt -d 1 able to observe if the certificate downloading good or not, it will ask you to confirm save if success, after certificate saved you will see pulling emails from gmail happen