Simple muttrc file for accessing Gmail imap

Jude DaShiell jdashiel at panix.com
Sat Aug 24 20:05:42 UTC 2019


Yes, those macros work and do so silently.  Thanks for the macros and
the idea to bind stuff to the comma key.  I hadn't thought of that one
before.

On Sat, 24 Aug 2019, Mark Frank wrote:

> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 14:00:27
> From: Mark Frank <mark at markanderika.com>
> To: mutt-users at mutt.org
> Subject: Re: Simple muttrc file for accessing Gmail imap
>
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 1:21 PM Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> wrote:
>
> > mutt is set up to download pop3 but has no keyboard shortcut to download
> > imap or didn't the last time I went through its documentation.
> >
> >
> I've had this in my muttrc for years.  Don't  if if any of these values are
> optimum as I don't use mutt much anymore but it does work.
>
>
> $ grep imap ./.mutt/muttrc | egrep -v ^#
> set spoolfile=imaps://imap.gmail.com/INBOX
> set folder=imaps://imap.gmail.com/
> set imap_keepalive = 900
> set imap_user='mark at markanderika.com'
> set imap_pass=xxxxxxxxx
> set imap_keepalive=300
> unset imap_passive
> set postponed=imaps://stag.mark-and-erika.com/INBOX.postponed
> macro index ,g <imap-fetch-mail> "force retrieval of mail from IMAP server"
> macro pager ,g <imap-fetch-mail> "force retrieval of mail from IMAP server"
>

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