[TriLUG] Documentation on mutt and IMAP

[Dan Monjar]

yup... but I use Mutt for three different mailboxes, my local machine, my 
bellsouth.net and my work IMAP.  So using the macros work better for me.


--On Monday, December 16, 2002 05:41:57 PM -0500 Jeremy Portzer 
<jeremyp at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 16:21, Dan Monjar wrote:
>> I use it to access my work mail from home.... I got the Mutt source,
>> configured --with-imap and --with-ssl and then added these lines to my
>> .muttrc:
>>
>> 	set certificate_file = "~/.mutt/certs"
>> 	set imap_user = "user"
>> 	set imap_pass = "password"
>> 	macro index ",d" "c imaps://xxxx.myimapserver.com/INBOX\n"
>>
>> So, I fireup Mutt... hit ',' then 'd' and I am logged into my IMAP inbox
>> over a TLS/SSL connection.  The first time Mutt will ask you what to do
>> with the cert...
>>
>> Of course, use your real username and password.  The ',d' shortcut isn't
>> necessary but it is an ugly line to have to remember.  This is using the
>> latest 'i' version of Mutt, BTW.
>>
>
> An alternative to setting that macro is to set the "spoolfile" variable,
> ie:
> 	set spoolfile=imaps://USER@moya.trilug.org/INBOX ;
>
> Then mutt will load the INBOX automatically.  See
> http://mutt.sourceforge.net/imap/
>
> --Jeremy
>
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--
Dan