Editing Mutt Setup Guide

Just to document my mail setup. I use Mutt, offlineimap, mairix, msmtp and newmail. It's a bit of a faff getting each piece setup, but doing so lets you understand how e-mail actually works - a first step towards reaching command-line Enlightenment, turning your window manager off and entering the monastic freedom of the shell. The Arch Linux wiki has [http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mutt a really good guide on how one sets up Mutt] using either OfflineIMAP or getmail/procmail (for POP3), msmtp (for SMTP), and links to the right stuff to read about using Mutt, Vim and links. Just remember 'pacman' is Arch's package manager - aptitude/apt-get/fink/port (or download RPMs or tarballs or self-extracting EXE files) as appropriate. If you've got a fast net connection and are not worried about offline access to your mail (and, well, you should - networks go down, and even 3G-toting cloud bunnies have to use trains and planes occasionally) can use mutt to access their IMAP servers directly. See [http://blog.johnlawrence.net/2007/09/gmail-imap-and-mutt-on-osx/ this] or [http://tuxtraining.com/2009/01/24/using-gmail-with-mutt-the-minimal-way-imap-update this] blog post for details. == See also == * [[Keyboard Shortcuts]]