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SSL/TLS, POP/SMTP with mutt (http://www.mutt.org)
configured for autistici.org
version 20060619
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Goals:
– to read mail with mutt from POP via TLS/SSL
– to send authenticated mail via TLS/SSL withmutt+msmtp

Assumptions:
– you are already familiar with POP receiving in mutt
– you have already configured mutt to send mail with mutt+msmtp
– you have already an active account as USER@autistici.org and know your working PASSWORD

As I am not fully conscious of the underlying consequences and deep causes, I
post here my working solution, with some degree of redundancy and
verbosity.

The whole solution took some hours of recompiling/experimenting, with changes
of compile flags ( since I work on a Linux Gentoo system, I get the
flags of mutt and mutt and msmtp issuing ‘emerge -pv mutt msmtp’ and
compiling the programs with ‘USE= emerge mutt’).

Output of `mutt -v`:

#Mutt 1.5.11 (2005–09-15)
…
#System: Linux 2.6.16.17 (i686) [using ncurses 5.4] [using libidn 0.5.15
…
#Compile options:
#+USE_POP +USE_NNTP +USE_IMAP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL +USE_GNUTLS -USE_SASL
…

so, a mutt with pop and gnutls configured (and no USE_SSL nor USE_SASL).

Output of `msmtp—version`:

#msmtp version 1.4.0
#TLS/SSL library: GnuTLS
#Authentication library: GNU SASL
#Supported authentication methods:
#plain cram-md5 digest-md5 external login
#System configuration file name: /etc/msmtprc

so, a msmtp with GNUTLS and SASL, as opposed to the default ‘ssl’
Gentoo flag

1a) For reading via POP in mutt, add and customize the following line (join the
following!) in .muttrc, accustomating PASSWORD and USER terms:

macro index ”:set dsn_notify=:unhook *:unset
pop_user:unset pop_pass:set
pop_host=mail.autistici.org:set
pop_user=USER@autistici.org:set
pop_pass=PASSWORD
pops://USER@autistici.org@mail.autistici.org:my_hdr From:
USER :set sendmail=’/usr/bin/msmtp -a
USER’:reply_to From: USER
” “USER@autistici.org POP”

1b) Append the autistici.org certificate for POP mail to
~/.mutt/certificates and add the following to .muttrc :

set certificate_file=~/.mutt/certificates

(or mutt wil prompt you to add the certificate automatically)

1c) Place the next in .muttrc ONLY if you have priority conflicts with other accounts :

set pop_authenticators=“digest-md5:apop:user”

2a) For sending, place this in your default .msmtprc:

account USER
port 587
from USER@autistici.org
user USER@autistici.org
auth on
password PASSWORD
tls on
host smtp.autistici.org

2b) Test your msmtp configuration by mailing a “foo” message to yourself :

echo foo | msmtp -a USER USER@autistici.org

3) If all of these works, take a break from the computer and enjoy your life,
Otherwise, you can find a better solution than this and let us know :)

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Note that experimenting with this configuration, I
send mail without having the autistici.org
certificates working! It is not necessary.

This while receiving requires a certificate.
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