Hi, I'll try to provide useful information. As I mentioned, I may not have adequate technical knowledge, so please do not let me lead you on a 'wild goose chase' :-) I will not be offended if you do not have time.
I am trying to use mutt to access and send from a gmail account. Accessing the gmail account to read email is working. However when starting mutt I get an error with "smtp_pass unknown variable" indicating mutt does not know of the smtp password variable.
"mutt -v" command shows amongst other details that --enable-smtp is not in the configure options, and also shows -USE_SMTP in compile options. That led me to suspect that the mutt package has been built without SMTP enabled such that I could configure mutt to send mail from the gmail account.
I hope that makes some sense.
Thanks.