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    This document provides instructions for using the mutt email client with Gmail accounts. It explains that mutt supports IMAP and SMTP, allowing it to directly access Gmail without additional tools. It includes a sample .muttrc configuration file with the basic settings needed to connect to a Gmail account, and instructions for creating directories and a mailcap file for mutt to function properly. With these steps, mutt can be used to read, send, archive and delete emails from any location via the Gmail IMAP interface.

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    This document provides instructions for using the mutt email client with Gmail accounts. It explains that mutt supports IMAP and SMTP, allowing it to directly access Gmail without additional tools. It includes a sample .muttrc configuration file with the basic settings needed to connect to a Gmail account, and instructions for creating directories and a mailcap file for mutt to function properly. With these steps, mutt can be used to read, send, archive and delete emails from any location via the Gmail IMAP interface.

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    This document provides instructions for using the mutt email client with Gmail accounts. It explains that mutt supports IMAP and SMTP, allowing it to directly access Gmail without additional tools. It includes a sample .muttrc configuration file with the basic settings needed to connect to a Gmail account, and instructions for creating directories and a mailcap file for mutt to function properly. With these steps, mutt can be used to read, send, archive and delete emails from any location via the Gmail IMAP interface.

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    Linux 08172010

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    This document provides instructions for using the mutt email client with Gmail accounts. It explains that mutt supports IMAP and SMTP, allowing it to directly access Gmail without additional tools. It includes a sample .muttrc configuration file with the basic settings needed to connect to a Gmail account, and instructions for creating directories and a mailcap file for mutt to function properly. With these steps, mutt can be used to read, send, archive and delete emails from any location via the Gmail IMAP interface.

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    Easy Gmail reading with mutt

    By Vincent Danen
    If you're like me, you prefer command line tools over GUI tools, and for email you prefer
    plaintext over HTML format. You can have the best of both worlds by using Gmail on the
    command line with a tool like mutt, although it does take a bit of tweaking. If you prefer to keep
    a copy of your mail locally, you can use POP3 (via fetchmail and procmail) or something like
    OfflineIMAP to suck mail down and keep a local copy, syncing the mail back and forth.
    With mutt, however, because later versions support IMAP and SMTP directly, you are able to
    work with your Gmail or Google Apps account using nothing more than mutt itself: no
    fetchmail, no procmail, no OfflineIMAP. All of these tools are great, but Gmail has pretty decent
    filtering and the advantages of using the web UI when at a computer not your own might make
    you prefer IMAP to sucking everything down via POP3 anyway.
    Mutt is extremely straightforward when used with Gmail.
    First, you need to create a ~/.muttrc with the following contents. These are really the bare-bones
    commands you need for mutt to work with Gmail (customize to suit passwords and email
    address):
    # A basic .muttrc for use with Gmail

    # Change the following six lines to match your Gmail account details
    set imap_user = "[user]@gmail.com"
    set imap_pass = "[password]"
    set smtp_url = "smtp://[user]@[email protected]:587/"
    set smtp_pass = "[password]"
    set from = "[user]@gmail.com"
    set realname = "[User Name]"

    # Change the following line to a different editor you prefer.


    set editor = "vim"

    # Basic config, you can leave this as is


    set folder = "imaps://imap.gmail.com:993"
    set spoolfile = "+INBOX"
    set imap_check_subscribed
    set hostname = gmail.com
    set mail_check = 120
    set timeout = 300
    set imap_keepalive = 300
    set postponed = "+[Gmail]/Drafts"
    set record = "+[Gmail]/Sent Mail"
    set header_cache=~/.mutt/cache/headers
    set message_cachedir=~/.mutt/cache/bodies
    set certificate_file=~/.mutt/certificates
    set move = no
    set include
    set sort = 'threads'
    set auto_tag = yes
    hdr_order Date From To Cc
    auto_view text/html
    bind editor <Tab> complete-query
    bind editor ^T complete
    bind editor <space> noop

    # Gmail-style keyboard shortcuts


    macro index,pager y "<enter-command>unset trash\n <delete-message>" "Gmail archive
    message"
    macro index,pager d "<enter-command>set
    trash=\"imaps://imap.googlemail.com/[Gmail]/Bin\"\n <delete-message>" "Gmail delete
    message"
    macro index,pager gl "<change-folder>"
    macro index,pager gi "<change-folder>=INBOX<enter>" "Go to inbox"
    macro index,pager ga "<change-folder>=[Gmail]/All Mail<enter>" "Go to all mail"
    macro index,pager gs "<change-folder>=[Gmail]/Starred<enter>" "Go to starred
    messages"
    macro index,pager gd "<change-folder>=[Gmail]/Drafts<enter>" "Go to drafts"
    macro index,pager gt "<change-folder>=[Gmail]/Sent Mail<enter>" "Go to sent mail"
    Next, you need to create the directories that mutt will need to store cache information, and also
    create the mailcap file in order to view HTML messages and attachments:
    $ mkdir -p ~/.mutt/cache/{headers,bodies}
    $ echo "text/html; /usr/bin/elinks -force-html %s" >~/.mailcap
    Change the path to the preferred CLI HTML browser of your choice: elinks is a great browser;
    lynx is good also. You can also add other entries to your mailcap if you prefer; such as launching
    OpenOffice.org to view Word files (application/msword) or Evince for PDF files
    (application/pdf).
    After this, you can start mutt and have immediate access to your Gmail or Google Apps account.
    You will be asked to save the certificate information; if you select Always Allow, you won't be
    prompted for it again.
    This configuration is obviously quite sparse, and there are many tutorials online on how to
    spruce up mutt with colors and other features. This is pretty much the bare minimum to get mutt
    to work with Gmail; you can send mail and read mail via IMAP, which allows you to get access
    to your mail account from anywhere that you can ssh into. The keybindings noted also mimic
    some of those keyboard shortcuts used in the web UI. For the paranoid, if you omit the
    passwords in the configuration file, mutt will ask you each time you start it up.

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