hpr1727 :: Basic Mutt
Frank Bell discusses setting up and using Mutt as an email client.
Hosted by Frank Bell on Tuesday, 2015-03-17 is flagged as Explicit and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Mutt, email, procmail, fetchmail.
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general.
Using a text email client such as Mutt is quite a learning experience. Here is some information to help you get started.
The programs that Frank used to set up Mutt:
Getting and Sorting Mail:
Fetchmail https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/
Procmail and Formail https://www.procmail.org/
Reading and Composing Mail: Mutt https://www.mutt.org/
Sending Mail: msmtp https://msmtp.sourceforge.net/
These are the references that Frank found most helpful:
Configuring Mutt:
Quickstart Guide to Mutt: https://docs.huihoo.com/gentoo/resources/document-listing/guide-to-mutt.html
Calmar on Mutt: https://www.calmar.ws/mutt/
Feeding the Cloud: Handling multiple identities/accounts in mutt: https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/handling-multiple-identitiesaccounts-in/
Procmail (the UMBC link is a great introduction to procmail and procmail's regex):
Mail Filtering with Procmail: https://userpages.umbc.edu/~ian/procmail.html#example
https://www.linux-mag.com/id/826/
Some Text Browsers (for help in parsing HTML emails)
Lynx https://lynx.isc.org/
Links https://www.jikos.cz/~mikulas/links/
elinks https://elinks.or.cz/
w3m https://w3m.sourceforge.net/
The programs that Frank used to set up Mutt:
Getting and Sorting Mail:
Fetchmail https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/
Procmail and Formail https://www.procmail.org/
Reading and Composing Mail: Mutt https://www.mutt.org/
Sending Mail: msmtp https://msmtp.sourceforge.net/
These are the references that Frank found most helpful:
Configuring Mutt:
Quickstart Guide to Mutt: https://docs.huihoo.com/gentoo/resources/document-listing/guide-to-mutt.html
Calmar on Mutt: https://www.calmar.ws/mutt/
Feeding the Cloud: Handling multiple identities/accounts in mutt: https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/handling-multiple-identitiesaccounts-in/
Procmail (the UMBC link is a great introduction to procmail and procmail's regex):
Mail Filtering with Procmail: https://userpages.umbc.edu/~ian/procmail.html#example
https://www.linux-mag.com/id/826/
Some Text Browsers (for help in parsing HTML emails)
Lynx https://lynx.isc.org/
Links https://www.jikos.cz/~mikulas/links/
elinks https://elinks.or.cz/
w3m https://w3m.sourceforge.net/