On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 11:18 +0800, Fulcrum wrote: > I tried using a gmail account; didnt work. I hope someone here could > help me. I'm not a mutt expert and definitely not a Hotmail expert (sorry!), but I haven't had much trouble connecting to gmail with mutt. Even a mutt invocation as simple as $ mutt -F /dev/null -f imaps://imap.gmail.com/ connects successfully to my gmail account. As a shot in the dark: have you enabled IMAP in your gmail settings[1]? -austin -- 1: https://support.google.com/mail/troubleshooter/1668960