On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 04:52:41PM -0400, Lewis Pike wrote: > 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?
I have briefly tried mutt+IMAP with G-mail, but haven't used it enough to get comfortable with it. What I do know is that the current setup that I have is unusable due to the size of my G-mail mailbox. I started to setup OfflineIMAP, but I don't remember if I ever started using it or not... I digress. I have been using fetchmail + procmail to fetch and sort mail (I've been using mbox mailboxes, somewhat arbitrarily). I use mutt to read and manage mailboxes, and compose messages. I use msmtp to send mail from mutt. :) I have a macro bound to G that executes fetchmail to fetch new mail. Periodically (often whenever I get a free moment to look at mutt) I manually type G. I have found that it works sufficiently well for my current needs, though there is certainly room for improvement. All of my rc files are available in my public GitHub repo: https://github.com/bamccaig/rc/ git://github.com/bamccaig/rc.git .fetchmailrc .muttrc .msmtprc [.netrc] .procmailrc In order to be able to track them publicly like that I keep credentials (i.e., passwords) separately in a .netrc file. There is a template in the repo that you can use if you're unfamiliar with it. As a general rule, you want most of these files to have restricted privileges (e.g., 0600) so nobody else on the system can read [or write] them. As always, if you spot something in that repo that shouldn't be public then please let me know. :) Regards, -- Brandon McCaig <bamcc...@gmail.com> <bamcc...@castopulence.org> Castopulence Software <https://www.castopulence.org/> Blog <http://www.bamccaig.com/> perl -E '$_=q{V zrna gur orfg jvgu jung V fnl. }. q{Vg qbrfa'\''g nyjnlf fbhaq gung jnl.}; tr/A-Ma-mN-Zn-z/N-Zn-zA-Ma-m/;say'
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