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MuttWiki: MuttWiki - Iceweasel. How to use secure POP with mutt? - Iceweasel. My first mutt - Iceweasel. Get started with Mutt | Linux User - Iceweasel. Learn how to get to grips with this simple and fast command-line-based mail client… Advisor: Sukrit Dhandhania Sukrit has spent several years working professionally implementing several open source tools for companies. During this time he has evaluated, set up and maintained various virtualisation projects for these companies Requirements:Mutt, your mail server settings, POP/IMAP server address, username, password, etc Mutt is a text-based mail client along the lines of Pine or Elm.

Mutt is known for being a fast and highly configurable mail client, and since it is text-based, it’s ideal for checking email quickly over SSH (Secure Shell). It ships by default with most flavours of Linux and UNIX, and has recently been ported to Microsoft Windows, too. As with just about everything natively UNIX or Linux, Mutt is a command-line application and relies heavily on keyboard shortcuts. 1. 2. Did you enjoy this article? Follow our. Using multiple IMAP accounts with Mutt - Iceweasel. Mutt's configuration is sometime more a toolbox than something offering ready solutions, and "how to I use multiple accounts? " is one of the most FAQs. Here's a condensed version of my setup. In the most simple solution, just 'c'hange folders to the IMAP server: c <enter> c <enter> That's cumbersome to type, so let's automate it: # .mutt/muttrc macro index <f2> '<change-folder> macro index <f3> '<change-folder> That would be the basic setup.

The two accounts have settings associated with them, we put them in two files: Now all that's left to do is two folder-hooks to load the files: # .mutt/muttrc folder-hook 'example.com' 'source ~/.mutt/account.example' folder-hook 'otherdomain.tld' 'source ~/.mutt/account.otherdomain' # switch to default account on startup source ~/.mutt/account.example A slight variation of the macros also uses the account files: