[ Lewis Pike wrote on Mon 17.Sep'12 at 16:52:41 -0400 ] > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 09:41:59PM +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > [ Lewis Pike wrote on Mon 17.Sep'12 at 16:33:53 -0400 ] > > > If anyone has a alternative solution that could also meet my needs, > > > I'd love to hear about it. > > > > Not knowing about the environment you have set up but I personally > > have my Gmail email forwarded to my local machine by smtp. Other > > solutions could include offlineimap, fetchmail perhaps. But it seems > > you would like to keep using the IMAP protocol to read mail so those > > options may not be of use to you. > > I'm certainly not set on IMAP if something else can do the trick. I'm > also not opposed to storing my mails locally if need be. Setting up > my own SMTP and forwarding to that might be interesting exercise. > With your particular setup is mutt updated on receipt of new emails in > near-realtime or do you have to periodically poll for them? > > -- Lewis
Well my set up is I have my own domain and have set up DNS with a static IP and run a local MTA. I then used the Gmail web interface to forward email to a local account, i.e. the address I'm posting from. I then simply have my Gmail address as one of my $alternates and use $reverse_reply so I receive Gmail instantaneously (almost) and deal with it locally. I personally prefer not to use IMAP with mutt, other people no doubt prefer it or have no other option available for whatever reason. Programs like offlineimap and fetchmail will poll IMAP and/or POP servers periodically. The former does not require a local MTA; fetchmail can be used with a local MTA for delivery or an MDA like procmail. Sending mail will require a local sendmail binary of some form, either with a local MTA or something like msmtp, ssmtp, etc.. If I were not able to use a personal domain, etc., I would probably go for offlineimap which stores/syncs mail locally into Maildirs which when used with mutt is fast. It also syncs the remote IMAP server with changes you've made locally, such as the Sent Maildir, etc.. Hope that helps. Other mutt users on the list may be able to provide better options for you.
