Comments on: Mutt questions http://www.haidongji.com/2005/10/20/mutt-questions/ 季庄新闻--Haidong Ji's Blog Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:32:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Haidong Jihttp://www.haidongji.com/2005/10/20/mutt-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Haidong Ji Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:14:53 +0000 Thanks dbt. My original purpose was to check my gmail on this box. On my web server that I have SSH access, the mail utilities provided are limited (No pine, postfix, exim, elm, mutt, msmtp). It does have fetchmail and procmail, and I successfully got them work together so I can download from gmail's pop3 server. I can view it using vi and even this program called mail. Initially I thought gmail provides IMAP. I was mistaken. I then downloaded mutt source code. I followed ./configure --help and I thought I may need to set prefix configure and enable SSL (for gmail), so that it uses my home directory and does not touch /usr/bin or /usr/sbin. But before I can do that, I did a dry run and configure came back telling me that the gcc on the machine is not ANSI compliant. Because of that, I could not do MAKE and MAKE Install. I am not a power Linux user or C programmer by any means, so I am a little resigned at this point. Plus, to be able to send gmail, I will have to download msmtp or nbsmtp or some other smtp, so at this point I don't know if it is possible at all for me to do it. I will continue to play around with it. In the meantime, I will setup auto-forwarding gmail to my Yahoo mail, SSH into my server, and check Yahoo mail using lynx:) Thanks a lot. As I said earlier, I am learning, so feel free to point out if I am totally off-target because of newbie inexperience:) Thanks dbt.

My original purpose was to check my gmail on this box.

On my web server that I have SSH access, the mail utilities provided are limited (No pine, postfix, exim, elm, mutt, msmtp). It does have fetchmail and procmail, and I successfully got them work together so I can download from gmail’s pop3 server. I can view it using vi and even this program called mail. Initially I thought gmail provides IMAP. I was mistaken.

I then downloaded mutt source code. I followed ./configure –help and I thought I may need to set prefix configure and enable SSL (for gmail), so that it uses my home directory and does not touch /usr/bin or /usr/sbin. But before I can do that, I did a dry run and configure came back telling me that the gcc on the machine is not ANSI compliant. Because of that, I could not do MAKE and MAKE Install. I am not a power Linux user or C programmer by any means, so I am a little resigned at this point.

Plus, to be able to send gmail, I will have to download msmtp or nbsmtp or some other smtp, so at this point I don’t know if it is possible at all for me to do it.

I will continue to play around with it. In the meantime, I will setup auto-forwarding gmail to my Yahoo mail, SSH into my server, and check Yahoo mail using lynx:)

Thanks a lot. As I said earlier, I am learning, so feel free to point out if I am totally off-target because of newbie inexperience:)

]]> By: dbthttp://www.haidongji.com/2005/10/20/mutt-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-4 dbt Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:58:18 +0000 Mutt is pretty simple to install and use. It shouldn't be necessary to install as root if you're just using the imap mode, or if the mail spool directory is in your home directory. Accessing multiple POP and IMAP accounts isn't too hard. If you have multiple folders on more than one imap server, you lose a little ease of use. For example, you can do: set folder=imap://server/INBOX and then open any folder on server with +foldername It's hard to do that with multiple servers. On the other hand, you can do: mailboxes +folder1 +folder2 imap://server2/INBOX imap://server2/INBOX.subfolder3 and that'll point to multiple servers. You can't use + expansion with server2 but those folders will show up when you hit c (change mailbox) if they have new mail, or if you hit c tab tab, which gives you a list of all your configured mailboxes. Mutt is pretty simple to install and use. It shouldn’t be necessary to install as root if you’re just using the imap mode, or if the mail spool directory is in your home directory.

Accessing multiple POP and IMAP accounts isn’t too hard. If you have multiple folders on more than one imap server, you lose a little ease of use. For example, you can do:

set folder=imap://server/INBOX

and then open any folder on server with +foldername

It’s hard to do that with multiple servers.

On the other hand, you can do:
mailboxes +folder1 +folder2 imap://server2/INBOX imap://server2/INBOX.subfolder3

and that’ll point to multiple servers. You can’t use + expansion with server2 but those folders will show up when you hit c (change mailbox) if they have new mail, or if you hit c tab tab, which gives you a list of all your configured mailboxes.

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