Mutt
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Building Mutt
They finally added built-in SMTP support in version 1.5.15.
apt-get install libncurses5-dev ./configure --enable-pop --enable-imap --enable-smtp --enable-hcache --with-ssl make make install
Mutt error
If you get an error like this then you forgot to use --enable-ssl in your configure step.
Error in /home/user/.mutt/muttrc, line 23: certificate_file: unknown variable
The configure help doesn't show this option, but certificates wouldn't work without it for me.
.muttrc or ~/.mutt/muttrc
This is my .muttrc. This is nothing fancy. This seems to be the minimum to get Mutt working with IMAP. For more documentation go to Mutt documentation.
set mbox_type=maildir set editor="vim" # I like to see all my mail headers in my editor: set edit_headers=yes # don't wait for sendmail to finish (this runs sendmail in the background) set sendmail_wait=-1 # this prevents Mutt from endlessly asking when you quit: # "Move read messages to ~/mbox? ([no]/yes):" set move=no # this prevents Mutt from endlessly asking: # "~/Mail does not exist. Create it? ([yes]/no):" set folder="" # if you use virtual mail hosts then Maildir might not # be in the default location... try looking in: # /home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/$USER/Maildir/ set spoolfile=~/Maildir/ # IMAP # For IMAP connections use the following settings. # Some settings replace those used above for folder and spoolfile. # Note that the full mail username is "username@example.com" and # the server name is "localhost". If you wanted to connect to a # remote server the full URL might be something like: # imap://username@example.com@example.com set folder="imaps://username@example.com@localhost" set spoolfile="imaps://username@example.com@localhost/INBOX" set imap_pass="my_stupid_password" set certificate_file=".mutt_known_hosts"
I actually use a more complicated ~/.mutt/muttrc file that tweaks usability to make it more Vim-like. Mutt key bindings are already pretty close to Vim. See my dotfiles page.
<include src="http://www.noah.org/engineering/dotfiles/.mutt/muttrc" />