Email on the terminal with mutt

[@LukeSmithxyz]

If you don't have a galaxy brain to configure mutt, luckily, someone made a tool for autoconfiguring it: gitlab.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard (newer, better, alpha-testing version) github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard (older version using offlineimap)

[@MMABeijing]

thank you for that, i used to mail through pine, that was 20 years ago and itwas faaaast!

[@rexevan6714]

At least you won't spend like a year or so to configure mutt.

[@stephenreaves3205]

Luke-ily

[@ebojager]

Will this make my install look like yours? Yours looks great!

[@123vlad123V]

Hi Luke, What do you think about aerc mail? Could you do a video on aerc configuring? Maybe even for gmail?

[@tesso5243]

thankyou, I use email a lot and this increased my efficiency by about 56%

[@Malaikat31]

@@PaperBenni its a meme you dip

[@meuko]

@@PaperBenni How is it even slightly woosh, there's no sarcasm indication you fucking honeydip

[@drumpf4all]

Are u sure it didn’t increase it 56.8%

[@keycapslapper7080]

@@PaperBenni you don't get to wooosh someone if you were the one woooshed

[@Scarsuna]

@@keycapslapper7080 r/wooosh

[@DonckIT]

How to get rid of any GUI step 43

[@godfather7339]

@@aneeshprasobhan cuz gui's are slow as shit, try opening mutt and gmail on a computer. also its much easier to add functionalities and features to a cli program.

[@hugog.cintra2573]

A man of culture, I see.

[@AdamPoniatowski]

IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is a protocol... it is not a server or mailbox. Alternatively (or legacy rather) would be POP3 (Post Office Protocol)... POP3 downloads the email to your email client from the server, whereas IMAP accesses the mailbox itself. In short, they are a means to access your mailbox. *rant over XD

[@p_serdiuk]

"IMAP server" = server that provides a service using IMAP. "HTTP server" = server that provides a service using HTTP. You get the idea.

[@AdamPoniatowski]

@@p_serdiuk yup... to over-complicate it, It is a server that provides the IMAP service via the IMAP protocol, which in turn, can be accessed via a client (eg. mutt), giving the ability to view/use the mailbox on the server, on a predetermined port/protocol ;)

[@ewkalt4770]

"rant"? are you canadian?

[@AdamPoniatowski]

@@ewkalt4770 hehehe... at this point... I wish I was :)

[@caranthir5130]

SMTPS is port 465, port 587 is StartTLS. SMTPS /IMAPS is considered deprecated in favour of StartTLS though a lot of mail servers still use IMAPS/SMTPS.

[@1Schueni]

Switched from offlineimaps to isync (mbsync). It is written in C and a lot lighter in resources. (+ no Python dependencies)

[@alymuni]

With your help, I learned Latex, maybe now I could give Mutt a try. Keep up the good work

[@bertlemoi431]

i'm new to linux and more serious about computers since a few days but your vids help me growing my understanding and my curiosity of how computers work. big thanks!

[@MasterSergius]

Great! Only one question - can I play Steam games in terminal?

[@OliverBurkill]

Launch them with the official terminal client developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD

[@sanjacobs6261]

@@OliverBurkill Holy shit this exists

[@samasama2627]

@@OliverBurkill OMG

[@ReggieRockification]

Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam so that's one.

[@anowarabegum4660]

@@OliverBurkill can you run minecraft from the terminal though

[@StefanovMilen]

If you have time to show how you add multiple mail boxes (accounts) would be great! Thank you! :)

[@Anujgupta-yi9di]

This is super useful. I had been struggling with mutt, but this covers everything ;)). Thanks for putting this up!

[@heikokraemer2735]

Dude, you post the colors in the first line of the description … you're clearly a pro!

I actually tried to get into mutt a while ago, but the learning curve was too steep so I couldn't justify spending work time setting it up. Thanks for the walkthrough and dotfiles. I'm not really that fond of the GUI mail clients for Linux.

[@minhajsixbyte]

Steen Schütt check his mutt-wizard. No setting up needed.

[@irreadings]

Yours is one of the most useful channels I've ever seen

[@nicolaslaborie5015]

That was hella interesting. So many useful CLI software it's unreal ^^

[@allegoricalstatue]

@Luke Smith Thanks for making this video. I'm one of those brainlets you mentioned in the Paradox of Documentation video who found configuring Mutt too confusing even despite your automated mutt-wizard. Couldn't get the neomutt folders side-bar thing to work mainly.

[@pierrevongegerfeldt1742]

Thank you, i have inproved My email handling about 50% or more.

[@KatSitchon]

Thank you so much for this tutorial, Luke! I'm a beginner and this was one of the things I had the most trouble with. Now I can finally cross setting up mutt off my taskwarrior list ;-)

[@mbk0mbk]

I would be happy to know you list.

[@MoTown44240]

Used pine on FreeBSD server back in late 1990's when GUI browsers were in their infancy.

[@rasputinmachine7488]

[insert comment about emacs here]

[@ta9994]

mu4e

[@xasmaniusvolk8416]

2:08 in GMX you have to manually enable it in the POP3/IMAP option

[@hejhog1961]

This is really good Info. I e been using the command line for years and never thought to use mutt

[@legion_prex3650]

thanks so much, luke. now i use vim as my email client and thats so much fun. bye bye thunderbird! only thing is, i have to figure out how to deal with attachments at all.

[@SuperCape]

please, keep this mutt video flowing! Love them!!

[@rexevan6714]

Brb opening my email in Gmail.

[@LukeSmithxyz]

Be sure to enable third-party applications or Gmail might block you.

[@lieutanant8058]

@@LukeSmithxyz Alternatively, Google allows for generating per-app passwords, that can be used even if 2-step verification is enabled

[@mechadrake]

@@LukeSmithxyz it sent me in a circle to do that, given up at this point.

[@mastertroll1780]

@@lieutanant8058 This worked for me

[@ianpan0102]

Nice color scheme! Gotta love gruvbox

[@avvvqvvv99]

"el_goblino" lmao

[@hordeforlife]

Mutt Muttingbur.

[@hellfire3D]

Dear Strong Bad

[@robd.2466]

Nice walk through. Best I've seen. Thanks.

[@vsorin1]

Hi Luke, nice video. Thank you so much for it! What linux distro you use In this video?

[@TheMack]

This was kinda cool, might actually try it! Thanks!

[@MarcelDempers]

Ah this is awesome thanks! Time to add this to my Dockerfiles repo! :D

[@thurston04]

I use Alpine. I would love your take on that.

[@thurston04]

@@SaHaRaSquad I mean Alpine the terminal email application.

[@SvartAdamSolander]

Nice! Are you syncing and handling chats and SMS in Mutt as well? What are you using for the sync for SMS?

[@SarahPoulin]

I am trying to get mutt to read emails and filter out ones from a specific sender, and download an attachment if the name fits certain criteria. I want to use a bash script. But I can't even get it to list the emails from a specific sender, even though I know the sender is in my inbox. It keeps saying 'No recipients were specified.` Where do I even start to get this working?

[@ebojager]

Just followed this and its working great! Thank you! Can you limit the amount of headers it downloads?

[@matthewbryson3243]

“A test mail for the video”

[@dpetrov32]

DIOS MIO.... EL GOBLINO DE LOS AMERICANOS... LA MUTT...

[@marioseijo6985]

i got mutt working now thanks to your video. thanks!

[@ScaryHutmanPictures]

What keyboard are you using?

[@jhny0]

8:48 chungus moment!!1

[@BeneSim]

Hey Luke great video! Always wanted to get my hands on mutt now I figured is the right time ;) Regarding your smtpS issue, did you try setting `set ssl_force_tls=yes`? This works for me :)

[@ClaDOS562]

hey Luke, great video and loved your mutt setup wizard. quick question, maybe youll see it :) Is there a way to tell mailsync to overwrite local folders if they are deleted on the mailserver? i have a bunch of old folders which i used for topics I don't actually need anymore, thus i removed them on the server but I can't figure out how to get rid of them locally in mutt neither automatically nor manually.

[@qwarlockz8017]

I could not love mutt more

[@gauravcheema]

Whats the theme for your terminal? How did you get those pretty colors??

[@dotty.]

1:46 email is stored in the balls

[@daiti3666]

Finally a noob-friendly video on mutt :D I have only one question, how do u configure mutt to read multiple account mails downloaded with isync?

[@maheshkariya]

Which os you are using?

[@blackie5566]

Great, thank you so much. I love mutt!

[@stampgermany]

Thaks a lot! Great Tutorial! You are soooo fast :P

[@MePipe82]

I was spending two days to find out why i am having SASL authentication error or handshake error (but mostly SASL) if i am trying to send email...This issue does affect gmail and hotmail also. port 587 was giving SASL error and port 465 was giving other errors. Finally i have found, that i need to source TWICE the password.gpg. Once for imap and once for smtp. It does not matter that the two passwords are same... Also it does matter where to insert them in muttrc file... Why in neomutt does need source separatelly in two .gpg files imap password.gpg and smtp password.gpg only in gmail and hotmail? Yahoo has not got this problem. Sourcing one file containing two lines for imap and smtp just works fine. But only for yahoo. If i put it in two separate lines but in one file i will get SASL error trying to send email... I am lazy to post this issue on github so writing here, hope will help people who are struggling with the same or similar issue. No need to waist two days from your life. :)

[@cunningham.s_law]

what about multiple email accounts?

[@LukeSmithxyz]

I create separate muttrc files for each and have bindings to source one or the other in mutt. See my mutt-wizard for how I do it. There are many ways to do it though. You can have it open multiple accounts at once I believe.

[@Aerex12]

I am using neomutt and for some reason i am unable to source any configuration file that contains the character 'a'. The client simply omits the character. When i try to source the file myself I realize that there is a delay when entering the letter a. Has anyone run into anything like this?

[@julioramirez5497]

Mine stays in "connecting to " Why?

[@mcdeleve]

mine too

[@averageengineeer]

hey luke , thanks for the video ... setting up mutt now. One question , does mutt support email encryption ? How would i set it up if yes.... ? thanks again

[@MajikCatSecurity]

Where are you creating the config dir? In home dir or root? Or does it even matter with this application?

[@VulcanOnWheels]

Look at 2:39. The thing that threw us off (I say "us" because it threw me off as well) was that, when it came time for Luke to edit that file, he had already started it at this point in the video.

[@birong]

FCC failed. i follow exactly the same for 'set record = "+Sent". Please advise

[@bryanbojorque]

You can pass the passwords as Environment variable in the system. Like so imap_pass = $IMAP_PASS

[@kersaherpafuqer784]

My internet newbie mistake was making my first 2 emails on mail.com They removed both of them giving me no access which therefore locked me out of any accounts I used with the emails Mail.com is terrible

[@vison360]

This might be useful, thanks!

[@teddymasters1347]

I love this, being able to check my email from the terminal is awsome. I kind of wish I didn't have the page of tecnical info, but it's honestly kind of interesting to see what thunderbird usually hides

[@badmax7319]

This looks great. Can Mutt filter emails into folders automatically? I can't find anything about it.

[@gehenna14]

read the arch wiki page for mutt its really useful

[@user-ry4ip9ps9x]

be warned this email client is somewhat vulnerable

[@briandavidhall]

lmao 1:34 "... mail.com, which is just some boomer website"

[@lollipopsweet7728]

ROFL at 12:47 coz it was literally my face expression for the past hour....)))))

[@BfhChaosXX]

but why

[@johnnybegood8531]

I think I've seen mutt using auth plain as authentication method. Is that a potential security risk? And how can you customize the authentication, like using startTLS etc.?

[@anviltankish1899]

I am a total newb to ubuntu and have to use this for a class. I need help please can you or anyone that reads this help. I don't know how you got into the muttrc file or anything. Need help tonight PLEASE, my instructor isn't much help.

[@minhajsixbyte]

Shawn i hope u got help

[@VulcanOnWheels]

@@minhajsixbyte Luke quickly started the file at 2:39. What threw us off was that he just switched back to the file he had already started.

[@maxmustermann-hx3fx]

Very cool I think that I am soon going full terminal First of all I need a tiling windows Manager probaly i3 and configure it then I need a cool terminal theme and then I need to configure neovim whish me luck btw I use arch

[@humm535]

Why would you need a WM if you're going full terminal?

[@omelettttttteeeeeee]

I've recently started using Linux as my desktop, and any time I research anything, this guy has a good informative video on it.

[@drumpf4all]

Neomutt is not in the Debian Stable (Stretch) repos. Why? That sucks. You have to compile or move to testing.

[@minhajsixbyte]

Drumpf_4_All because debian repo sucks

[@Martronic]

what are you using for your operating system? qubes?

[@kennywinker6595]

He uses Arch or Parabola on his setups.

[@Martronic]

@@kennywinker6595 oh ok, I like the interface he has... Thanks

[@kennywinker6595]

@@Martronic Most of the aesthetics are from using "i3-gaps" and "polybar", which you can throw on a lot of different and more stable distros. (i3 is a tiling window manager (the windows don't overlap, so it might take a bit of time to get used to ))

[@qwarlockz8017]

I am such a fan of mutt and have used it for my personal mail for a long time. But trying to extend to other emails is tricky. On my laptop I can grab my gmails no problem. But when I try to do is from a different linux box.... I get a weird error saying ssl_xoath token not found or something close. I have ssl_starttls and force_tls but still I get this strange difference between two systems that should be the same. Any hints on this? How does mutt interact with tls in order to get it working? Maybe TLS is broken on one box? hmmmm do you have any clues on this one?

[@qwarlockz8017]

Hey Luke Smith: small note on the above error. It looks like mutt when even just retrieving emails is walking down a list of "auth methods". For GMail it would try SASL first since it was compiled in. It fails and then uses SSL. It does this even if you have ssl_starttls and ssl_force_tls. It still on my 32 bit system always tried SASL first. It gave the above error and then succeeded using TLS. The only thing I could do was to recompile with sasl turned off. Then it had no error and worked fine. I wish there was a way to disable sasl with a variable. But so far have not found it. Thanks for the great vids!

[@ElliotWilks_]

what language is this being done in?

[@jellybean7253]

Why? Really? Just for fun? Got it. A brain teaser? Got it. Unsecured email? Useless. BUT, JUST FOR FUN? I'M GOOD WITH THAT! :-). Thanks for the vid. New sub

[@kainech]

All email clients suck. This one just sucks less. :)

[@Tartneznok]

le 56% face

[@aliencreation8744]

does muttwizard work with the original mutt program??

[@geeksified]

how does this work with html designed templates and attachments.

[@РусланЗаурбеков-з6е]

@7:43 -- how it can show no mailboxes, if you have Inbox?? )))

[@43ann]

On my sidebar the full path of the mailboxes appear. How do I make it to appear only the mailbox name?

[@MartinsTalbergs]

Is it possible in mutt if my gmail has 2factor authentication?

[@stefanpaulstockinger6923]

Yes it is.... support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en you can set app passwords which you can use with mutt

[@russghound]

I got everything set up like you showed us for my Gmail account but Gmail will not allow me to log in with Neomutt. Bummer! I can't set my settings to allow less secure apps either. The setting doesn't show in my security settings menu.

[@minhajsixbyte]

Russ Hearn search for it. The setting is still there

[@mastertroll1780]

As of 2022 one can use app passwords to log in

[@keiichiiownsu12]

I am curious, what is your graphical setup?

[@martinmaartensson]

It is called i3

[@f4d3_cl]

Thanks dude ! Seems funny to probe :D !

[@AhmedKhaled-sj1zx]

what wrong with s-nail (mailx)

[@fortnitejimmy-ih3dn]

email? is that like discord?

[@santiagosuarez465]

but I guess ot is not possible to the images in the mails you get in mutt, or attaching files when sending emails for example.

[@minhajsixbyte]

Santiago Suarez it’s possible. And it’s convenient too, check his latest mutt-wizard video.

[@alanhowson2270]

I am wanting to install this to an ubuntu server. I need to cut some text from the email and past it in a command line. Can I do this in mutt?

[@zigginzag584]

connects, loads emails, works great (even integrated the neato colors) but it won't send. Says the password is incorrect. I logged on the webserver thinking that I may have had to at least signed in once. Still no workie. I have a sad.

[@marcovirtual]

And how does Mutt deal with HTML e-mail?

[@gregoryhirsh3074]

Thank you!!!

[@brettknoss486]

How do save the configure file, and go back to the main console?

[@ledenec5122]

is it possible to configure more than one account and switch between them in neomutt?

[@matthewcaylor342]

I have struggled with this and maybe some one here might know. Can I use mutt, or an other program, to process incoming mail in a crontab script for example? I know I can send mail using mutt, but I need a way to download and open mail.

[@holyproton8855]

Thanks cutie for this video

[@sk8sbest]

i was thinking of watching the video and then maybe commenting on it but i prefer just showing everybody that im the first one to comment on it

[@askassk]

Convert to mblaze for UNIX philosophy street cred'!

[@jflaoeal]

Would anyone know of a similar term based app, but for receiving text?

[@adonnisperalta]

what is he pressing to get to that muttrc file?

[@luxucn]

This is so helpful!