BUT also you, a true road warrior, want mail(box) availabilty and plenty of storage.
Well, recently gmail added IMAP support, with a very good support of the standard AND a well thought mapping between gmail labels and IMAP folders ( "virtual" folders).
The good news is that you can link your beloved mutt to gmail, use IMAP folders and also use SMTP TLS authentication via smtp.gmail.com
Here is a copy of my .mutt/muttrc (obviously must change "username" and other stuff):
## ~/.mutt/muttrc
set from=username@gmail.com
set realname="JuanJo seC"
set reverse_name=yes
set reverse_realname=no
set imap_user = 'username@gmail.com'
set spoolfile = imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/INBOX
#set sendmail="/usr/sbin/ssmtp -C$HOME/.mutt/ssmtp.conf"
set smtp_url="smtp://username@smtp.gmail.com:587/"
set folder = "imaps://imap.gmail.com:993"
#set record=+sent-mail-`date +%Y`
set record="+[Gmail]/Sent Mail"
set postponed="+[Gmail]/Drafts"
# previously do: mkdir -p ~/.mutt/cache/{headers,bodies}
set header_cache="~/.mutt/cache/headers"
set message_cachedir="~/.mutt/cache/bodies"
set certificate_file=~/.mutt/certificates
set move=no
set delete=yes
set edit_hdrs
set include
set reply_to
set abort_nosubject=no
alternates '(username|altusername)([-+].*)?@.*'
set hdr_format="%4C %Z %{%m/%d} %-15.15F (%4c) %s" # format of the index
hdr_order From: Date: User-Agent: X-Mailer To: Cc: Reply-To: Subject:
ignore *
unignore From: Date: User-Agent: X-Mailer To: Cc: Reply-To: Subject:
my_hdr Reply-To:
# setup gmail filters to apply the corresp. labels:
mailboxes ! =ml-lug-list =ml-lug-org =[Gmail]/Drafts "=[Gmail]/All Mail"
set editor="jed %s -l ~/.mutt/jed.mutt.sl"
set alias_file=~/.mutt/mail_aliases
source ~/.mutt/mail_aliases
send-hook . 'set realname="JuanJo seC"'
## hack to make $reverse_name and 'my_hdr From:' work ok (eg mlists)
send-hook . 'set from=username@gmail.com'
send-hook . 'unmy_hdr From:'
###
send-hook . 'set signature=~/.signature'
#send-hook lug-list 'set record=+sent-lug-list'
send-hook lug-.+@lugmen.org.ar 'my_hdr From: JuanJo seC <username+mlist@gmail.com>
subscribe lug-.+@lugmen.org.ar
Very cool to experiment folder switching in mutt using:
'c' ("Open Mailbox")
TAB (will show all IMAP folders)
TAB (again: will show only the 'mailboxes' mutt var)
And here is my jed rc:
% ~/.mutt/jed.mutt.sl
% emacs keybinding for jed:
() = evalfile("emacs");
% Find signature begin, position cursor there:
if (re_fsearch("^--")) {
call("previous_line_cmd");
} else {
% else search headers end
re_fsearch("^$");
call("next_line_cmd");
}
push_mark();
Yeahh... finally I can read mailing lists with an interface that doesn't suck! 8)
Enjoy!
