[Outreachy tip] Guide to setup mutt for Gmail

[Outreachy tip] Guide to setup mutt for Gmail

[Gilbert Adikankwu]

Hello,

This is a guide to setup mutt, the recommended text-based email client
for the Outreachy Linux community.

If you have not read the newbies tutorial, please read it first to see the 
steps for the initial setup of mutt. This guide is a follow-up to the initial
setup steps decribed in the newbies tutorial.

Here, you will learn how to setup your mutt to access emails in
your Gmail inbox and reply to them. 

Next, set up the mail client, mutt, with some defaults, by creating a
.muttrc file in your /home and add the following lines to it:

set sendmail="/usr/bin/esmtp"
set envelope_from=yes
set from="Your name <your_username@gmail.com>"
set use_from=yes
set edit_headers=yes
set editor="vi"
set send_charset="us-ascii:utf-8"
set sort_aux =  last-date-received
set sort = reverse-threads

# IMAP settings
set imap_user = "your_username@gmail.com"
set imap_pass = "mailbox/app password"

# SMTP settings
set smtp_url = "smtps://your_username@smtp.gmail.com"
set smtp_pass = "mailbox/app password"

# Remote Gmail folders
set folder = "imaps://imap.gmail.com:993"
set spoolfile = "+INBOX"
set record = "+[Gmail]/Sent Mail"
set trash = "+[Gmail]/Trash"
set postponed = "+[Gmail]/Drafts"


Note: The imap_pass and smtp_pass can be your App password or email
password

I hopes this helps

Best wishes
Gilbert

Re: [Outreachy tip] Guide to setup mutt for Gmail

[Julia Lawall]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2023, Gilbert Adikankwu wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This is a guide to setup mutt, the recommended text-based email client
> for the Outreachy Linux community.
>
> If you have not read the newbies tutorial, please read it first to see the
> steps for the initial setup of mutt. This guide is a follow-up to the initial
> setup steps decribed in the newbies tutorial.
>
> Here, you will learn how to setup your mutt to access emails in
> your Gmail inbox and reply to them.
>
> Next, set up the mail client, mutt, with some defaults, by creating a
> .muttrc file in your /home and add the following lines to it:
>
> set sendmail="/usr/bin/esmtp"
> set envelope_from=yes
> set from="Your name <your_username@gmail.com>"
> set use_from=yes
> set edit_headers=yes
> set editor="vi"
> set send_charset="us-ascii:utf-8"
> set sort_aux =  last-date-received
> set sort = reverse-threads
>
> # IMAP settings
> set imap_user = "your_username@gmail.com"
> set imap_pass = "mailbox/app password"
>
> # SMTP settings
> set smtp_url = "smtps://your_username@smtp.gmail.com"
> set smtp_pass = "mailbox/app password"
>
> # Remote Gmail folders
> set folder = "imaps://imap.gmail.com:993"
> set spoolfile = "+INBOX"
> set record = "+[Gmail]/Sent Mail"
> set trash = "+[Gmail]/Trash"
> set postponed = "+[Gmail]/Drafts"
>
>
> Note: The imap_pass and smtp_pass can be your App password or email
> password
>
> I hopes this helps

Thanks!

julia

Re: [Outreachy tip] Guide to setup mutt for Gmail

[Dorcas Litunya]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 11:31:01AM +0100, Gilbert Adikankwu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This is a guide to setup mutt, the recommended text-based email client
> for the Outreachy Linux community.
> 
> If you have not read the newbies tutorial, please read it first to see the 
> steps for the initial setup of mutt. This guide is a follow-up to the initial
> setup steps decribed in the newbies tutorial.
> 
> Here, you will learn how to setup your mutt to access emails in
> your Gmail inbox and reply to them. 
> 
> Next, set up the mail client, mutt, with some defaults, by creating a
> .muttrc file in your /home and add the following lines to it:
> 
> set sendmail="/usr/bin/esmtp"
> set envelope_from=yes
> set from="Your name <your_username@gmail.com>"
> set use_from=yes
> set edit_headers=yes
> set editor="vi"
> set send_charset="us-ascii:utf-8"
> set sort_aux =  last-date-received
> set sort = reverse-threads
> 
> # IMAP settings
> set imap_user = "your_username@gmail.com"
> set imap_pass = "mailbox/app password"
> 
> # SMTP settings
> set smtp_url = "smtps://your_username@smtp.gmail.com"
> set smtp_pass = "mailbox/app password"
> 
> # Remote Gmail folders
> set folder = "imaps://imap.gmail.com:993"
> set spoolfile = "+INBOX"
> set record = "+[Gmail]/Sent Mail"
> set trash = "+[Gmail]/Trash"
> set postponed = "+[Gmail]/Drafts"
> 

Setting up the remote Gmail folders was particularly useful as I was
stuck on how I would reach my inboxes from the mutt client. Good stuff
Gilbert! Thanks for this tip :-)
> 
> Note: The imap_pass and smtp_pass can be your App password or email
> password
> 
> I hopes this helps
> 
> Best wishes
> Gilbert
>