I found this website very useful: http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/howto/howto_setup_mutt_with_gmail_imap
The instructions worked for my email account and my setup. What I would like to do now is sort my mail so that it goes into different boxes locally. I had previously run mutt with fetchmail and procmail, and it was working ok for gmail. However, if I can just run mutt that would be better. Pedro