mutt-config's Introduction

Mutt

packages needed by Debian

Packages needed

getmail4                              mail retriever with support for POP3, IMAP4 and SDPS
procmail                              Versatile e-mail processor
mutt                                  text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading
mutt-patched                          Mutt Mail User Agent with extra patches
mutt-vc-query                         vCard query utility for mutt
notmuch-mutt                          thread-based email index, search and tagging (Mutt interface)
libnotify-bin                         sends desktop notifications to a notification daemon (Utilities)

check new mail and send desktop notify

$ `crontab -e`

*/3 * * * * $HOME/.mutt/check-new-mail.sh

use getmail to get new mail

expamles/msmtprc

msmtp is used to send emails from either account via the commandline or Mutt.

use procmail to filter mails

expamles/procmailrc

procmail is used to filter mails to different mail dirs

Mail query

Mail query is a little C app I wrote which reads your existing mail for addresses and presents them in a format such that mutt can use them for tab completion. Given a small enough mailbox, it's usably fast.

It is available in its own repo.

Notmuch

Notmuch support is fully integrated in mutt-kz. Search with ,s.

Mutt

Mutt accesses the mailboxes under the two synced folders in ~/Mail and uses folder-hooks to adjust the appropriate settings (from, sendmail, etc) depending on what folder you're in.

Be sure to review all settings and man muttrc for anything you don't understand.

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