voidrice/.config/mutt/email.md

Luke's mutt/OfflineIMAP/msmtp/notmuch setup

My email setup gives you the following:

• A clean, fast and vim-like terminal interface to send and read email (mutt)
• OfflineIMAP, which takes keep a copy of all of your mail offline, allowing you to read and
• notmuch as an email indexer, which allows you to easily search email by content within mutt.
• A looping script which continually uses OfflineIMAP to check mail, and if there is new mail, it will both notify you with a ding and then tell notmuch to quickly index the new mail for searching.

All of these features are well synced together and require just a little setup.

To use my email setup, be sure to have neomutt, offlineimap, msmtp notmuch and notmuch-mutt installed.

Note that the notification sound will work on i3 by default. You can edit the notification command that runs in .config/Scripts/check.sh.

How to set it up.

To use this setup, you have to add your email settings where required.

There are several steps after which everything should work nicely.

• First, open .offlineimaprc and add your email account and server info (details are in that file.
• To index your mail for quick searching, run notmuch setup and give your mail directory (~/.Mail by default in my configs)
• Then you can go ahead and start syncing your email by running offlineimap -o. This will download your mail from all the accounts you use to ~/.Mail.
  • If you want to use my autosync loop script, make sure to check .config/Scripts/inboxes to ensure that your inboxes are there.
• Next, add your email account info to .msmtprc.
• And the same to .config/mutt/personalrc or .config/mutt/gmailrc or your own rc file.
  • (mutt will try to load the gmailrc by default. You can change this in .config/mutt/muttrc.)

Updating

As I said before, I have a loop script in .config/Scripts/mailsyncloop.sh which will run OfflineIMAPs every few minutes and will play a notification sound and run notmuch if new mail is found.

I suggest running this scipt in a tty or tmux session, so you can check up on it if you really want. That's what I do.

Enjoy your email!

If you're using my i3 config, you can run mutt with mutt. Explore the muttrc to see my bindings and add your own.

If you're not using my i3 config, you may want to move muttrc to ~/.muttrc, because I keep my muttrc in the .config directory to different reasons, but it will look only in ~ by default.