[sf-lug] thinking of moving to mutt. i use gmail. any advice/warnings/thoughts?

[Alison Chaiken]

Michael Shiloh asks:

> I've done a little bit of research and it seems that Mutt does support the
> modern protocols I need: IMAP, SSL, etc. I've found a few guides on setting
> up Mutt with Gmail on Linux and it looks like it shouldn't be too horrible.

I set up Mutt access to Gmail as a cron job that calls offlineimap.
Doing so was pretty easy as I followed instructions in "Silent
Delivery" by Florian Effenberger in the January 2012 issue of Linux
Magazine, p. 26.     I have multiple gmail accounts and offlineimap
handles all of them.    I can send you my notes if you want, but you
might want to buy the digital version of the magazine back issue too.

I highly recommend _Linux Magazine_, a German publication, btw.   I
end up acting on advice from almost every issue, and the columns by
Klaus Knopper and Charly Kuhnast are outstanding.   Zack Brown (IIRC)
also has a column about the most important discussion in LKML that
month, and the conference calendar includes events I wouldn't hear of
otherwise.   It's at linux-magazine.com.

HTH,
Alison

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