Mutt Wizard: Command Line Email at 156% Efficiency

[@Clutter.monkey]

56% of test audiences agree that this is your best thumbnail yet.

[@gustavojoaquin_arch]

Based ⚡⚡

[@一郎-e1i]

13% McDonald's grease 1/1024 Scandinavian "I'm German-American"

[@blackie5566]

Hi Luke! I'm really impressed, thank you so much for the Mutt wizard. A couple of years ago I set up mutt by hand. I had no idea, what I was running into. However after a couple of hours it worked. With your wizard it took me just 5 minutes. Great work, thank you so much again!!!

[@kamilkarwacki9590]

KZbin algorithm: Hello Luke Smith, here are videos from Luke Smith which you might like

[@exponent42]

nice

[@meyimagalot9497]

Donated 50 bucks for the wizard, as this is awesome piece of the soft

[@hakovatube]

Thanks for the effort you put into this! It truly is the email solution that sucks the less in my opinion.

[@SantiYounger]

You sir are a hero. Thank you so much for making this, I was stuck for hours trying to get mbsync to work! Thanks Luke, keep up the excellent work!

[@tc40390]

With your awesome teaching capabilities I'm sort of shocked that you haven't made a git video yet, anyways thanks for the video I love your mutt-wizard!

[@fuxor15]

yes, make an in-depth git tutorial, I'd jizz my diapers

[@rteja764]

git is very popular vc system so there are so many vids available, good thing about lukes videos are that it is often about the things which are not very common to see but those things still makes us very productive

[@jonathansevoro1845]

A really important thing to bear in mind is that when using the wizard, if your "Trash" folder is not called "Trash" in your email client, you must manually add "set trash = "+'name of trash folder' " or deleting an email in mutt will skip the Trash folder and delete the email permanently.

[@AdityaFingerstyle]

What a timing ! I just watched part 1 of this video like a second ago

[@elsholz2365]

He hacked the algorithm

[@Zeioth]

Thank you for making this!! I was expecting to loose the entire night confituring mutt, but it took me literally 5 minutes. With notifications and everything!!

[@rajzakku8829]

Can't wait for La Luz Extinguido Command Line Interface Web Browser

[@4.0.4]

You're killing it with the memes man

[@kevind.shabahang]

I swear by the mutt/neomutt email client. Nice light-weight way to keep track of your emails instead of having to keep a bloated browser open. Thank you for making the wizard Luke. It's priceless

[@corkerydan]

Thanks. Mutt Wizard work perfectly. I tried Mutt in the past and MW makes it much easier to get going. Neomutt will take some getting used to. However, it will be work it once I am familiar to the key bindings. Cheers.

[@Storm_.]

Wow MuttWizard is amazing! Thanks so much for making this! Allows noobs like me to feel snazzy ;P

[@bsatyam]

This is not how mutt-wizard works now. There's no 'wizard' anymore just "mw -a [e-mail]". Everytime it says log-on not successful without saying why. How am I supposed to debug this? Yeah yeah I know I'm stupid. Thanks Luke for stating the obvious.

[@bsatyam]

@World Cycling Entertainment I forgot I made this comment. I switched to GMail like a pleb

[@ckoehler]

Three years ago you saved like 5 hours worth of my life time. I owe you one.

[@nathanruben3372]

I have been checking your github thanks especially your dwm notes are wonderfull.

[@paolobassi544]

I use gui and mouse btw

[@一郎-e1i]

So old school...

[@MoreChannelNoise]

Wow well done, just made setting up mutt super easy, I did get a few non critical errors thought I would post them. got these errors on first run but it still worked, have now commented them out Error in /usr/share/mutt-wizard/mutt-wizard.muttrc, line 49: view-raw-message: no such function in map (bind index,pager H view-raw-message) Error in /usr/share/mutt-wizard/mutt-wizard.muttrc, line 51: top-page: no such function in map (bind pager,browser gg top-page) commeted this line out but gg still works Error in /usr/share/mutt-wizard/mutt-wizard.muttrc, line 52: bottom-page: no such function in map (bind pager,browser G bottom-page) commented out but still works Error in /usr/share/mutt-wizard/mutt-wizard.muttrc, line 85: index_author: no such object (color index_author red default '.*') Error in /usr/share/mutt-wizard/mutt-wizard.muttrc, line 86: index_number: no such object (color index_number blue default) Error in /usr/share/mutt-wizard/mutt-wizard.muttrc, line 87: index_subject: no such object (color index_subject cyan default '.*') Error in /usr/share/mutt-wizard/mutt-wizard.muttrc, line 91: index_author: no such object (color index_author brightred black "~N") Error in /usr/share/mutt-wizard/mutt-wizard.muttrc, line 92: index_subject: no such object (color index_subject brightcyan black "~N") Error in /home/dka/.config/mutt/muttrc, line 2: source: errors in /usr/share/mutt-wizard/mutt-wizard.muttrc source: errors in /home/dka/.config/mutt/muttrc

[@gingergoat3027]

It would be nice if you made a video about setting up an email server as well

[@devhypercoder2522]

Now he has one!

[@zanidd]

wuhuu, luke made software in the aur! nice

[@kaykiaraujo6117]

I AM SEEING YOU USING RANGER INSTEAD OF VIFM

[@knightrider585]

I got this working. Took a bit of debugging because of special characters in my passwords, but is nice.

[@tornaxo7274]

Thank you for this awesome program :D

[@kawasutanku]

very helpful had mutt up and working in less than 3 min

[@Sn0wCrack]

You should take a look into potentially taking a look at the MX records on the domain given to give a best guess on what the IMAP and SMTP settings should be. A lot of the time they're just going to be the MX record and the standard 993 and 465. As well as that it could let you check for custom domains on hosted mail services to find them as well.

[@batbawls]

5:00 I used 'linux' on the desktop for 20+ years and it's crazy (depressing?) that these vanilla gnome dialogs have not changed in appearance at all.

[@andreasklindt7144]

Thank you so much for your mutt wizard!! I was going crazy with the configs for days with my university, gmx and gmail account. Now I just need to find out how to sent non encrypted plain text mails... Is there an option in neomutt itself, or in which config file do I have to look for it? How can I uncheck PGP encryption for an outgoing mail?

[@andreasklindt7144]

When writing an email, hit and I can see all the security options and change them. That works! At least manually

[@n4p3r0]

I'm having exactly the same problem Satyam Bhardwaj stated a week ago.

[@flleaf]

how is you here

[@xananacs]

if I have a very large inbox that is already stored offline in Thunderbird, is there any way to convert without redownloading? Or better, any way to share it between the two? Congrats on the wizard, it's an awesome piece of software

Hi Luke! If I don't delete my old configuration, will this new installation detect or re-download all emails?

[@LukeSmithxyz]

Depends on which version of mutt-wizard you originally used actually. A couple months ago, mw kept mail for an account $ACC in ~/.mail/$ACC, but more recently, it keeps it in ~/.local/share/mail/$ACC. If you originally got a version of mutt-wizard from a couple weeks or months ago that uses isync/mbsync, you should be able to manually move your mail there and continue downloading. If you're using an older mutt-wizard version though, mbsync _might_ get confused and try to double-up your mail!

[@geraldlouis5099]

Luke, where can I found your Ph.D in linguistics? Thanks

[@mytech6779]

mutt-wizard is now in the Debian main repos (At least for Bookworm I didn't check Bullseye)

[@csabadunai3760]

Thanks for the video and the wizard itself. I would love to use it but I have one major issue: How to set up if the server has no SSL encryption?

[@hanghill3064]

Can you do one about more advanced mutt usage like automatic inbox filtering, email search, syncable contact adressbooks, etc.

[@al-du6lb]

Hey Luke, for your vulture server email you created, did you have to put your user (Ted) in the Login(?): field?

[@navsys6703]

Thanks so much Like! Does now the wizard automatically sync mails offline? It does not ask anymore during installation, like in your video.

[@Blure]

Interesting project man! Started using it today. I have one concern, there's any way I can speed up the "evaluating cache" time at startup? It takes around 1 minute to load my email, when I'm just interested in the first 10-15 emails most of the time. Any suggestion? Thanks in advance.

[@RobinCawthorne]

Nicely done!

[@Vlad-1986]

Just a friendly reminder that mutt-wizzard is also available in Gentoo

[@nikolaossilk6929]

Hey Luke and guys. Linux newbie here. I managed to install Mutt Wizard and set up my email following the instructions of this video. My mail is synced and ready. I have many images attached to my emails. Is there any way to search for all the .jpg files and move them on a folder on my desktop for example. If yes how can I do that? So far I managed to search for all the .jpg files using Control + B and typing .jpg to the search box on the bottom. What next? Thanks in advance for your help.

[@b0ba_884]

NIce video learned a lot about mutt/neomutt

[@Lawiah0]

Thoughts on TEXTING to mobile devices?

[@tafferinthedark]

As interesting as this all is. I am unable to set this up for Gmail. So far: -Generating the keypair. (Success) -Password initialization. (Success) -Mutt-wizard (Partial success: RUns almost to the very end, gets stuck at "Creating profiles for `mailname`...DONE" Need to use CTRL-C) -mbsync (Doesn't work with default config. "Adding AuthMech LOGIN" fixes it and creates the mail folder apparently without issue.) The real issue comes when running neomutt. If I run it at this point it complains that /var/user/mail/ isn't a mailbox (Which is because it doesn't recognize ~/.local/shared/mail as such). Adding "set spoolfile = +INBOX" partially fixes it. Now I can use mutt with the contents of the Inbox folder, but can't see the rest of the folders downloaded by mbsync. (Neomutt sidebar is empty). Any suggestions on where could the issue be? I would think that CTRL-Cing the mutt-wizard could be causing trouble, but all of it-s configs seem to have been generated succesfully: ~/.config/mutt/accounts/1-mailname.muttrc /usr/share/mutt-wizard/mutt-wizard.muttrc ~/.config/mutt/muttrc (Which sources the previous two)

[@Lawiah0]

Love Mutt. Thanks

[@MajikCatSecurity]

Running Parrot Security OS - tried doing everything as you said and mw does nothing now and trying to mbsync -a I get this "Cannot open config file '/root/.mbsyncrc': No such file or directory". About to say screw this and just go back to alpine...

[@0babul0]

I was using old version, so I purged and manually deleted all the files. When trying to add account again I get "Error: flattened mailbox name '[Gmail]/Spam' contains canonical hierarchy delimiter (also happens for sent, marked, all etc, basically all options). Log-on not succesful -> It seems that either you inputted the wrong password or server settings, or there are other requirements for your account out of the control of mutt-wizard. Not sure how to deal with this.

[@julioramirez5497]

I get "NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Invalid credentials (Failure) Log-on not successful. It seems that either you inputted the wrong password or sever settings, or there are other requirements for your account out of the control of mutt-wizard." I also was using old version and did the same thing.

[@dutchdaedalus]

Amerifat Creatura electronic mail.

[@claudiobrt652]

This is awesome..Thanks a lot for the effort you've put in. One thing I cannot figure why it is not working is the g+s g+i key bindings. It says 'Key is not bound'. Any idea please? thanks

[@paulgrougnie7028]

I would like to know how to have the name of the box in the sidebar, I tried to figure out how it is called to find the answer on the internet, but, I couldn't...

[@fitzpatrickmathemati]

Is the theme automatically set with mutt-wizard? I'm having a horrible time getting solarized colors working with neomutt and wonder if I should just run this for some decent colors.

[@LukeSmithxyz]

Yes, it's automatically set, although you can override it if you want.

[@fitzpatrickmathemati]

@@LukeSmithxyz Finally got around to running mw and it works (and looks) great!

[@patrickprucha5522]

Thank you!

[@Weegeeguy208]

if anyone as of May 30th 2022 is having trouble logging into a Gmail account using mutt wizard, it's because Google has essentially made Gmail incompatible with it and all other SMTP-based email clients.

[@cthedosboss5113]

thanks luke

[@stefanosanagnostou6797]

im running antix linux and i run into a problem. When i tried to run "mw" after following all the necessary steps, a message pops up saying "mbsync must be installed to run mutt-wizard". However when i tried installing mbsync, i get an error "unable to locate package mbsync". Don't know if this problem only occurs to me, or is bound to happen in antix. Just putting this out for anyone else that might have the same problem

[@1Schueni]

Hi Luke, Why didn't you configure notmuch for neomutt like proposed on the arch wiki? This way you don't need the clunky search macro. wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Notmuch#Integrating_with_NeoMutt in muttrc: set folder=notmuch-root-folder "probably ~/.mail" macro index \Cf "" "Search mailbox" in .config/accounts you will have to adapt the folder as the root folder is now ~/.mai and not ~/.mail/your-account For example: =Inbox is now =gmail/Inbox

[@kitvalo6731]

Superb.

[@electricsquidxd3254]

How do I start out fresh? I think I tried setting it up but failed at a step, because it doesn't list any emails, but when I try to add mine it asks for a passphrase that I don't think I set

[@mariozupan1662]

Gmail and Office365 mails are pretty hard to setup.

[@javaboy6581]

Hi friend, I recently discoverd mutt and I love it. Can I start and script when receive an email? I want to parse email content and if contain some keyword execute my script. Is it possible?

[@vslow4795]

Is there a way to write replies with neomutt "injecting" reply text within HTML containing quoted message with all the formatting saved? I want to move to mutt, as I tired from problems with email sync and I want to control it myself. But people I work with will hate me forwarding/quoting emails losing all the formatting.

[@sharktamer]

Noticed why urlview/urlscan was missing then saw you had it at one point but removed it in a commit in February. Any reason for this?

[@LukeSmithxyz]

I have a url detector key binding in my terminal build now that replaces both. See my more recent video on st.

[@sharktamer]

@@LukeSmithxyz ah, I seem to remember you mentioning that. I was thinking of using something like that but it probably wouldn't handle off screen links in pagers and weechat and stuff, right?

[@epijonix]

cannot pass the point that asks to set pass must be installed..... What could I be missing?

[@Meaticus22]

Can someone help me set this up step by step, I’m confusing myself with all these commands. Please and thank you.

[@samhicks9462]

So I've run the mutt-wizard and it seems to have changed mutt and added vim keybindings, but it doesn't remember my password 🤔 makes me input the smtp and imap passwords every time. Anyone got anything that could help me?

[@grin0686]

Does the sidebar automatically appear when you create the folders/boxes?

[@tylerkropp4380]

What is the program being run at 9:38? He appears to type in `lf` but that's probably an alias.

[@Cybolic]

Looks like ranger, so yeah my guess would be an alias as well.

[@Patricia-kk8tr]

I tried to install the Mutt-wizard on Debian container, but although it seems to install without errors it doesnt respond to mw or appear in apt list. I see a mw-debian compliance zip file - is this a script or replacement program for debian?

[@bfolkens]

Where is the desktop wallpaper from?

[@craigwilliams7445]

think Im doomed to fail with this lol...

[@ltxr9973]

Can I limit the timeframe from which emails will be sync'd? I'd rather only download the mails of the last 3 months rather than having 50 gigs of mail on my local system

[@LukeSmithxyz]

You might want to check the isync/mbsync manuals for that. I do something that accomplishes the same thing by archiving all older mail in another box that I can keep from syncing.

[@gglebq]

Another question, some of my emails contains words in Hebrew, which is written from right to left and neomutt doesn't seem to know how to handle them and instead throws them in left to right order (Example: imgur.com/a/V74s6ij), is there a way to fix it?

[@les4256]

Hello Luke, Your videos are very interesting and useful. Please help me install and configure Neomutt for NeoVim v0.4.4. I will be very grateful for your help.

[@SemiJ3w]

How big. Of a backlog will mutt download for offline use? Can I allocate a specific amount of storage for offline use? If yes what happens if one of the emails has a huge attachment (size > allocated storage)?

[@LukeSmithxyz]

You can specify how many messages you want it to keep offline. Check the manual for mbsync for more options.

[@kisuyami5065]

new mutt-wizard don't create .config/mutt/creadentials, so i can't send emails.

[@bepolymathe5123]

Same problem

[@bepolymathe5123]

Wizard ask for /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt but i just have ca-bundle.crt and ca-bundle.trust.crt in the same folder. Can i change it ?

[@randomm2617]

Same issue. /home/lachlan/sent is not a mailbox.

[@erickrauss4006]

Am i crazy for having 15 GB of swap?

[@sauron1427]

it depends on what you need... if you use it all you're not crazy

[@duminicad]

macos dynamically grows the swap based on system usage, if some application goes crazy, or you have too many applications started, the ones that you use less often will be swapped to storage, your available system free storage effectively becomes your available swap my workstation has 64GiB ram, have a 65GiB swap file(not partition!)

[@al-du6lb]

I have pass setup with a gpg key, but I got and error `gpg: error reading key: No public key` directly after entering my email address.

[@al-du6lb]

Ahh, I'm reading the code. I see what happened: the email that I use for my pass gpg key does not match $fulladdr.

[@al-du6lb]

Hey! in this video, you are not using the same email as your pass gpg key, but you didn't get the same error.. or do you also have a [e-mail] gpg too?

[@garkeinen7034]

What's the thing with the Git Domains list?

[@gglebq]

Hey Luke, I can't finish the setup because my mailbox has two-step verification on. Is there a way to use the wizard without disabling the two-step verification?

[@dmsalomon]

Not a hundred percent sure, but I think you need to look into getting something called an OAuth Key. I could be wrong, but I hope that points you in the right direction.

[@superurgmail]

How about this? support.google.com/mail/answer/185833?hl=en

[@gglebq]

Yep thanks ! , that solved the problem @@superurgmail

[@superurgmail]

@@gglebq Great! Glad I could help.

[@一郎-e1i]

Hello Luke, I just wanted to say hello!

[@GuzikPL4]

Can someone give me a quick hint how can i sort e-mails in my mailxbox?

[@b0ba_884]

How do i change default file manager lol because i dont like vifm and i want it to be ranger

[@edwhard2000]

What's the "se" command he uses?

[@GermanCoder42]

How to open attached ... pdf/webpage?

[@mohamedfouad6492]

you lived in hz?

[@ezadviper]

Desktop wallpaper link please. TY

[@gsguitar7682]

What file explorer is that ?

[@deepfuchsia7204]

Can it allow me to Accept/Decline Google Calendar's events like in Thunderbird?

[@shadowKamiyama]

are you using linux ment

[@needMoreInput]

Anyone made a nixos conf for this yet?

[@Usrbinry4n]

/usr/share/mutt-wizard/mutt-wizard.muttrc could not be sourced

[@gracefulboomer291]

had the same error. update your neomutt

[@passord1d493]

how to reinstall mutt wizard

[@saurabht3540]

Excellent video!! do you have any on mutt for advance search queries? However is it even possible to do an advance query on mutt and do a batch operation on it? like delete all the mail where subject: "*discount* and (from=[e-mail] or from = [e-mail]) and data < 05/05/2018

[@drumpf4all]

Dude. Your date formats are wrong.

[@Cybolic]

Looks like ISO 8601 / RFC 3339 with short year to me? What's wrong about that?

[@myria2834]

Terminal email seems to be of limited use, since email has been infested with remote images and other crap you can't really parse in a terminal. Basically just as useless and frustrating as browsing the internet in the terminal.

[@nitsi9333]

how can i get this to work with a free mail.com account?

[@LukeSmithxyz]

By running it.....

[@nitsi9333]

thanks for the reply! i entered in everything correctly, but its telling me i.imgur.com/ofqlmcS.png

[@LukeSmithxyz]

Oh I see. mail.com used to use 995 as an IMAP port, which is irregular and the mutt-wizard expected this. Now it looks like they use 993 like most people. Redownload/install mutt-wizard in 30 minutes and I'll make sure to have this patched by then.

[@LukeSmithxyz]

Alright, it's done. Just tested it out myself. Can download and send mail with mail.com accounts A-OK.

[@nitsi9333]

@@LukeSmithxyz thank you so much!!

[@florentflote]

[@dikdikoobraz2875]

what the f**k .... cock.li no connect... Used some else email box, but right side menu i give something like that 8HBJEJHBYWe... instead Drafts Junk Sent Trash