Mutt and msmtp - I just can't get mutt to send

Question

Hello all, I have been battling with this for some time, I hope you can help.
I have been running arch for several years now and thought I might start using mutt.  I have installed the version from the AUR with the side bar patch (version 1.5.21) and have it retrieving my email from an email server that I run.
I initially tried to use mutt's new in built SNMP functionality but couldn't get it to work with my server.  My server uses TLS/SSL plain text auth but is listening on a non standard port.
My .muttrc is as follows
#muttrc by martin thanks to brisbin
set realname = "Martin"
set imap_user = "[email protected]"
set imap_pass = "somepassword"
set folder=imaps://mymailserver.com:8993/
set spoolfile=+INBOX
set record=imaps://mail.mymailserver.com/Sent
set imap_check_subscribed
set certificate_file = ~/.mutt/cert_file # where to store certs
set mailcap_path = ~/.mutt/mailcap # entrys for filetypes
source ~/.mutt/colours
set from="[email protected]"
set sendmail = "/usr/bin/msmtp"
set ssl_verify_host = no
set ssl_verify_dates = no
set use_from=yes
#set envelope_from=yes
# main options
set beep_new # terminal bell on new message
unset confirmappend # don't ask, just do
set delete # don't ask, just do
set mail_check = 0 # minimum time between scans
unset markers # no ugly plus signs
unset mark_old # read/new is good enough for me
set menu_scroll # scroll in menus
set pager_index_lines = 10 # number of index lines to show
set pager_context = 5 # number of context lines to show
set pager_stop # don't go to next message automatically
set pipe_decode # strip headers and eval mimes when piping
set reverse_alias # show names from alias file in index
#set sort = threads # like gmail
#set sort_aux = reverse-last-date-received # like gmail
#unset sort_re # always thread
set thorough_search # strip headers and eval mimes before searching
set thread_received # sort threads by date received, not sent
set tilde # show tildes like in vim
set timeout = 3 # idle time before scanning
unset wait_key # don't show "Press any key to continue"
unset resolve # stops attachjments being downloaded
# sidebar settings
set sidebar_visible = yes
set sidebar_width = 25
set sidebar_delim = '|'
set status_format = "-%r- %v ------+----/ %f %m%?n? [+%n]?%?d? [-%d]?%?t? [*%t]? /%?p?---/ %p waiting to send /?-%>-(%P)---"
# colors
color sidebar_new brightyellow black
# sidebar bindings
bind index,pager \CJ sidebar-next
bind index,pager \CK sidebar-prev
bind index,pager \CB sidebar-open
My .msmtprc file is as follows (which I have sodt linked the /etc/msmtprc just incase....
account home
host mail.mymailserver.com
port 8465
protocol smtp
logfile /home/martin/.newmsmtp.log
auth plain
user [email protected]
from [email protected]
tls on
tls_certcheck off
tls_starttls off
tls_force_sslv3 on
account default : home
I have confirmed the path to msmpt and have confirmed it is getting passed to mutt ok by using the "set: sendmail" command.
If I try sending in mutt it errors out with an SSL error but this error never seems to change regardless of what I do to the msmtprc, in fact if I delete the password field in the msmtprs mutt doesn't even ask for the password (I have tried it with and without passwords in the msmptrc - no change.  The precise error message when trying to send from mutt that shows down the bottom of the terminal is
SSL failed: error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol
This would explain thing but, if I send a test email direct from the CLI using msmtp eg
echo "Please prevent me from throwing this against the wall" | msmtp -a home [email protected]
it sends OK and asks me for the password when I send as well.
I'm at my wits end and have spent numerous hours o it in an effort to get it working.  There must be something simple I am missing.  Anyone's help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Good evening all.
Passing mutt- v find sthat it doesn't appear to be chnaging the sendmail path.....
Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
System: Linux 3.3.4-2-ARCH (i686)
ncurses: ncurses 5.9.20110404 (compiled with 5.9)
libidn: 1.24 (compiled with 1.24)
hcache backend: GDBM version 1.10. 13/11/2011 (built Nov 19 2011 00:26:19)
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
-DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL -USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK -DL_STANDALONE +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
+USE_POP +USE_IMAP +USE_SMTP
+USE_SSL_OPENSSL -USE_SSL_GNUTLS +USE_SASL +USE_GSS +HAVE_GETADDRINFO
-HAVE_REGCOMP +USE_GNU_REGEX
+HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET
+HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM
+CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME +CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME
-EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT
+ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR
+HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_LIBIDN +HAVE_GETSID +USE_HCACHE
-ISPELL
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/mail"
PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/etc"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
-MIXMASTER
To contact the developers, please mail to <[email protected]>.
To report a bug, please visit http://bugs.mutt.org/.
patch-1.5.16hg.cd.trash_folder.vl.1
sidebar-1.5.21-5 (debian-version)
The thing is I do not have sendmail installed.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this or is it a bug?
Cheers.