tutorial request for non-gmail users

[eduOS]

Hi, there, Living in China where many networks such as FB, twitter and almost all google's products are blocked outside GFW, I can not find enough tutorials to set other email services like hotmail and 163 mail since almost all tutorials are about gmail and mutt.

Could anyone please help me find a tutorial on the configuration of mutt for hotmail?

Thanks!

[suvayu]

Isn't it sufficient to simply replace the appropriate urls? Gmail requires a little bit of more attention as it exposes its labels as IMAP folders, which has certain intricacies. Maybe this link for Outlook helps?

[eduOS]

I've spent more than two days on the configuration. I'll try that on this coming Saturday thanks.

[eduOS]

@suvayu Since I can successfully set it for 163 mail last year(after using the 163 account several weeks it failed due to some unknown reasons), I want to try it again. After some attempt I failed again.

According to this document, I'll be able to fetch and send emails through Mutt after configuring only the following four settings:

set imap_user=fanle_2013 # I have tried to add @163.com but the same login failed error occurred
set imap_pass=the_imap_pass_but_not_the_account_pass
set folder=imaps://imap.163.com:993
set spoolfile=+INBOX

But I encounter the login failed error every time. Am I mistaken anyway so far?

[eduOS]

I have made it for hotmail.

[suvayu]

Those lines look okay to me. If it's not working, then you could enable debug (see man mutt) and investigate.