Vmail is great, make it free

[skrat]

Free as in not bound to one specific email provider.

Wouldn't it be nice to have it working with just any IMAP server? Just point it to the right folders (Sent, Archive, Junk, Trash) and voila. It would make a great alternative for mutt.

[parkr]

We all look forward to your forthcoming PR to implement this! :)

[danchoi]

Thanks for the suggestion.

There is a way to use Vmail with another IMAP server, but the folders may not
be ordered in the same way. Please give it a whirl and let me know how it goes:

https://github.com/danchoi/vmail/wiki

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Free as in not bound to one specific email provider.

Wouldn't it be nice to have it working with just any IMAP server? Just point it to the right folders (Sent, Archive, Junk, Trash) and voila. It would make a great alternative for mutt. I see people fleeing en masse thanks to Snowden leaks all kinds of privacy concerns.

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[bovine3dom]

Please give it a whirl and let me know how it goes:
https://github.com/danchoi/vmail/wiki

Hi,

I'm trying to set Vmail up with Outlook. Having followed those instructions, reading emails works really well, but I can't send emails. Vmail doesn't offer any errors - the only indication that it doesn't work is that I don't receive the emails.

I suspect the problem is in the configuration:

smtp_server:
smtp_domain:

The SMTP server is obvious - but I've never heard of an "SMTP domain" before. I've tried leaving it blank, filling it in with the domain of my email address (e.g. outlook.com), and filling it in with the SMTP server.

Is there any way to make Vmail be more verbose about how it's trying to send the email?

Thanks!

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Edit:
I got it working - the trick was that Outlook requires:

authentication: login

The "smtp_domain" has no effect; even leaving it blank (so that your code sets it to "gmail.com") works.

Thanks.