Hi All,
I setup Fetchmail and wanted to use Mutt to read e-mail. I used to use Pine and I just am sick of GUI e-mail clients these days. Bloat, complication and unreliable. Pine was my first ever e-mail client. I prefer to use POP still as I want may mail on my machine at all times.
I can go into mutt and execute: 'fetchmail -v' and watch it bring down my e-mail.
But in mutt i dont see anything. I dont see an inbox. no messages. nada.
I set my mail to /Users/jtsm/.mail and if I go to that location I dont see anything there.
Can anyone help me get setup? Also, can anyone point me how to make mutt look like this: http://linsec.ca/File:Muttscreen.jpg interms of the columns? IIRC there use to be a patch but that was so long ago I dont know if it even applies anymore.
I am reading the Wiki, but who knew Mutt was so extensive...
-Todd
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:32:44PM -0700, Todd wrote:
Hi All,
I setup Fetchmail and wanted to use Mutt to read e-mail. I used to use Pine and I just am sick of GUI e-mail clients these days. Bloat, complication and unreliable. Pine was my first ever e-mail client. I prefer to use POP still as I want may mail on my machine at all times.
I much prefer getmail.
At any rate, you should probably set some sort of inbox in mutt.
I have my own page on mutt, that some folks find useful.
http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/mutt.html
Note that it's basically for mutt 1.5, and I think CentOS may still use mutt 1.4 (Though KB Singh had a 1.5 rpm, IIRC--in my case, I wound up building from source.)
Not sure how fetchmail works these days--with getmail, I hand it off to maildrop to do the sorting, but it also offers the option of just putting everything into /var/spool/mail or elsewhere.
Regardless, mutt usually offers to create a $HOME/Mail directory, but will also look in /var/spool/mail. Hit c as in change directory, and it will move around various places.
There is, if you're more comfortable with Pine, alpine, which I believe is pretty much the same thing. (Based entirely on hearsay, haven't used pine for years. )
Hi Scott,
I setup Fetchmail and wanted to use Mutt to read e-mail. I used to use Pine and I just am sick of GUI e-mail clients these days. Bloat, complication and unreliable. Pine was my first ever e-mail client. I prefer to use POP still as I want may mail on my machine at all times.
Thanks, I am using 1.5.21.
Further looking at the picture shows that the jpg links back to page about mutt setup, including applying the sidebar patch. http://linsec.ca/Using_mutt_on_OS_X#Applying_the_sidebar_patch
Yup that is what I am using as a reference for parts. I will review this more. It starts to get overly complicated and I wanted to make sure the basics worked before I went further.
Todd wrote:
I setup Fetchmail and wanted to use Mutt to read e-mail. I used to use Pine and I just am sick of GUI e-mail clients these days. Bloat, complication and unreliable. Pine was my first ever e-mail client. I prefer to use POP still as I want may mail on my machine at all times.
<snip> I agree. I'm on the verge of going back to mutt. T'bird has *real* problems. I'm running the version that comes with CentOS 5.6 (yeah, yeah, I need to do an update to 5.7) at home, and my hosting provider is under a DDoS attack, and I couldn't send out email. So I contacted them, and they gave me a private fixed IP address for outbound SMTP. Worked when I did it, but the next day, it would *not* send email; it kept trying the normal SMTP server, even when I set the private IP as default. I had to delete the normal one before it ever tried the IP.
Then there's 3,1,3 that comes with CentOS 6, and no matter what I do, clicking on a link WILL NOT open it in a browser window or tab, 100% of the time, I have to copy the link, and paste it in.
mark "maybe I'll put a GUI around mutt"
On 09/27/2011 04:25 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Then there's 3,1,3 that comes with CentOS 6, and no matter what I do, clicking on a link WILL NOT open it in a browser window or tab, 100% of the time, I have to copy the link, and paste it in.
That sounded so strange that I installed thunderbird on a very, very stock centos6 VM, pointed it to my gmail account via imap which it mostly already know how to do, and re-read this thread so I could click the link with the mutt info - and it opened it in firefox. So it's something you've done to your own system...
From: "m.roth@5-cent.us" m.roth@5-cent.us
it would *not* send email; it kept trying the normal SMTP server, even when I set the private IP as default. I had to delete the normal one before it ever tried the IP.
Happened to me too; apart from making it default, you have to check that the outgoing server in the accounts preferences points to default and not a specific server...
JD
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:32:44PM -0700, Todd wrote:
Hi All,
Can anyone help me get setup? Also, can anyone point me how to make mutt look like this: http://linsec.ca/File:Muttscreen.jpg interms of the columns? IIRC there use to be a patch but that was so long ago I dont know if it even applies anymore.
Hrrm, that's probably the sidebar patch. Doubt it's included as default in an rpm, though. I'd have to do some digging.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 04:17:18PM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:32:44PM -0700, Todd wrote:
Hi All,
Can anyone help me get setup? Also, can anyone point me how to make mutt look like this: http://linsec.ca/File:Muttscreen.jpg interms of the columns? IIRC there use to be a patch but that was so long ago I dont know if it even applies anymore.
Hrrm, that's probably the sidebar patch. Doubt it's included as default in an rpm, though. I'd have to do some digging.
Further looking at the picture shows that the jpg links back to page about mutt setup, including applying the sidebar patch.
http://linsec.ca/Using_mutt_on_OS_X#Applying_the_sidebar_patch
I think you'll just have to google something like mutt-<your_version>-sidebar-patch.
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