I’ve finally settled on the best email setup I’ve had since the fetchmail+procmail+mutt setup I used several years ago. It’s not much different and still allows me to use my absolute favorite email client, mutt. “Offlineimap is a tool to simplify your email reading” says the homepage for this deceptively simple program. With offlineimap I now have a backup of all the messages in my gmail account, mutt performance is improved (it’s much better at Maildir than direct imap access), and have synchronized my mail reading on 3 different machines.
So here’s the basics.
.offlineimaprc:
[general] metadata = ~/.offlineimap accounts = GmailMain ui = Noninteractive.Quiet [mbnames] enabled = yes filename = ~/.mutt/muttrc.mailboxes header = "mailboxes " peritem = =%(foldername)s sep = " " footer = "\n" [Account GmailMain] localrepository = GmailLocal remoterepository = GmailRemote [Repository GmailLocal] type = Maildir localfolders = ~/.mail/GMAIL [Repository GmailRemote] type = Gmail remoteuser = yourname@gmail.com remotepassfile = ~/.mailpass
.msmtprc:
account default host smtp.gmail.com port 587 from yourname@gmail.com tls on tls_starttls on # you can google on how to find this tls_trust_file /home/webframp/.mutt/certs/Thawte_Premium_Server_CA.pem auth on user yourname password yourpassword logfile ~/.msmtp.log
relevant bits of .muttrc:
set mbox_type=Maildir # mailbox type set hostname=gmail.com # This is my domain. # GMAIL+OFFLINEIMAP settings set imap_user=sean.escriva@gmail.com set folder=$HOME/.mail/GMAIL set spoolfile=+/INBOX set postponed="+[GMAIL].Drafts" set record="+[GMAIL].Sent Mail" # Mailboxes via offlineimap source $HOME/.mutt/muttrc.mailboxes set sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp" # Sendmail alternative
I find running offlineimap via my crontab provides a nice solution to that
compulsive mail check impulse that can easily develop. Of course I also have a
Maildir check in my dzen xmonad statusbar using the ppExtras setting of my
pretty printer:
... , ppExtras = [logMail] } where logMail = dzenColorL colorPink "" . wrapL mailIcon "". padL $ maildirNew mailDir mailIcon = "^i(/home/webframp/.dzen/icons/dzen_bitmaps/envelope.xbm)" mailDir = "/home/webframp/.mail/GMAIL/INBOX"
Maybe you can glean something useful from my setup
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