Mutt is a console based Mail User Agent that allows one to send and receive plaintext or even encrypted mail via either its MIME or PGP implementations. It also has POP3 and IMAP support so that popular services such as Gmail can be used with it. It has an infinitely configurable rc file that can be ...

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Migrate from Thunderbird to Mutt

I am contemplating moving from Thunderbird to Mutt (provided it is feasible) to move to a faster, simpler application. My current Thunderbird set-up consists of multiple IMAP accounts (gmail and ...
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“SASL authentication failed” with mutt and Gmail, why? [closed]

I am confused by this, I have installed a lot of new packages and followed some tutorials after googling but I keep getting this kind of SASL -error. I am not sure whether the mistake is in some Gmail ...
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How do I integrate gpg with the GNOME keyring?

I use Mutt for gpg-signed email. With previous versions of Ubuntu I could tell Mutt to use gnome-gpg, which would ask for my GPG passphrase with a GUI window and then store it my GNOME keyring for 24 ...
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Mutt not working due to “gnutls_handshake: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.” error

I am expecting lots of problem trying to make mutt work in Ubuntu 12.04. Here is my .muttrc : http://paste.ubuntu.com/1273585/ Here is the bug I am getting when i tried to connect. gnutls_handshake: ...
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How can I get mutt to stop making vim insert line breaks every few characters?

Every time I type an email with mutt, it inserts these line breaks every 70 characters or so. I'd rather it just relied on word wrap instead, since my editing style (lots of revision) makes ...
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gnome-keyring error sending email in mutt

here is my .msmtprc : defaults account gmail host smtp.gmail.com from yy@gmail.com port 587 auth on tls on tls_starttls on tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt user ...
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How to change my the From: address in mutt?

When I use mutt under Ubuntu like below, my email address is shown as maemo@maemo-TomXue. I want to change it but didn't find how to do, who could help me? Thanks! y:Send q:Abort t:To c:CC s:Subj ...
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How to manage multiple imap accounts with mutt

I love mutt, and the mutt version shipped with Ubuntu is awesome (it even has a patched version), the only caveat I've found so far it's that I had not been able to manage several imap accounts at the ...
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Mutt runng from Crontab

I have a bash script that is sending an email through command line mutt. This bash script is being called from a cron job (setup using crontab -e because of permissions needed to do all items in the ...
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How do I parse emails with Mutt?

How would I go about parsing new message subject lines non-interactively using Mutt? Mutt is already configured and fetches mail from our Exchange server. What I'd like is for an action to be ...
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Disable localhost postfix sending emails outside my machine

I configured postfix & mutt to read mails being sent by applications locally, but I just found out that they are going out on the internet too. Sometimes they reach my inbox and many times get ...
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Problem sending an email via mutt

I'm trying to send an email using mutt like this: echo 1.txt | mutt my_email@gmail.com -s Hello -a file.tar.bz2 It's getting no error, but I didn't receive the email. What's the problem?
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IMAP: match Evolution's Wastebasket -folder to Mutt's Trash -folder?

I have IMAP Gmail account that uses something like Gmail-IMAP/Trash for Wastebasket but Evolution uses Wastebasket -dir by default. Alert terminology differs: directory is label in Gmail -terminology, ...
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Check email using both a graphical and command line client

I generally use a graphical email client (Evolution), but I would like to be able to check my email from the command line as well. I have experimented with Mutt, but I think it is not possible to ...
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How can I specify the default image viewer in mailcap?

I have most of my home directory dot files shared across my home and work systems, each running a different version of Ubuntu. I'm looking for a way to specify the default image viewer for each ...