Hello, German. On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 08:39:42AM -0400, German wrote: > Hi muttoers. Just yesterday I emerged Mutt on Gentoo and now pondering > how to set it up. I am going to use it with gmail. I don't even know > should I use pop or imap. Please advise. Point me to good tutorials.
For a start, look at the mutt manual, in /usr/share/doc/mutt-x.y.z/, in either text or HTML. If you haven't got it, then emerge mutt again, this time with the doc USE flag (put it into /etc/portage/package.use). > Is this tutorial is good? > http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/ Any suggestions, > ideas, your .muttrc files are appreciated greatly. Thanks. mutt itself is mainly a "Mail User Agent" (MUA). An MUA needs to be complemented by a "Mail Transport Agent" (MTA), i.e. a mail server, which does all the business of sending and receiving mails, while the MUA is what you read and write them with. In my setup, I use qmail combined with fetchmail as an MTA, and mutt as MUA. fetchmail fetches all current mail from my ISP's server, and delivers it on my machine via qmail. mutt passes outgoing email to qmail, which then sends it on to my ISP. mutt itself, according to its manual, has some MTA features, notably POP3, IMAP, and SMTP, which might save you the hassle of configuring a mail server, and believe me configuring a mail server IS a hassle. I don't know how good mutt's MTA features are. mutt is fast and very flexible. "Very flexible" means "steep learning curve", so be prepared for some frustration along the way. I particularly like its searching and filtering capabilities - "every mail in threads in which I have posted something to Joe and he has replied to me, but don't show duplicates" is the sort of thing I do regularly. As a first quick tip, Ctrl-g in mutt is the "cancel this operation" key sequence. mutt has its own mailing list at ... err, you're already posting on it, not the Gentoo list. :-) > -- -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
