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Installing and configuring Mutt on OSX
# Install mutt using brew
$ brew install mutt
# Configure mutt
$ vim ~/.muttrc
# Put the following on the mutt config file (.muttrc)
set imap_user = “YOUR_USERNAME@GMAIL_OR_YOUR_DOMAIN.com”
set imap_pass = “YOUR_PASSWORD”
set smtp_url = “smtp://YOUR_USERNAME@GMAIL_OR_YOUR_DOMAIN@smtp.gmail.com:587/”
set smtp_pass = “YOUR_PASSWORD”
set from = “YOUR_USERNAME@GMAIL_OR_YOUR_DOMAIN.com”
set realname = “YOUR_NAME”
set folder = “imaps://imap.gmail.com:993"
set spoolfile = “+INBOX”
set postponed = “+[Gmail]/Drafts”
set header_cache = ~/.mutt/cache/headers
set message_cachedir = ~/.mutt/cache/bodies
set certificate_file = ~/.mutt/certificates
set move = no
set smtp_authenticators = ‘gssapi:login’
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ghost commented Mar 17, 2018

These quotations...

@rcode
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rcode commented Jun 1, 2018

Put the following on the mutt config file (.muttrc)

set imap_user = "YOUR_USERNAME@GMAIL_OR_YOUR_DOMAIN.com"
set imap_pass = "YOUR_PASSWORD"
set smtp_url = "smtp://YOUR_USERNAME@GMAIL_OR_YOUR_DOMAIN@smtp.gmail.com:587/"
set smtp_pass = "YOUR_PASSWORD"
set from = "YOUR_USERNAME@GMAIL_OR_YOUR_DOMAIN.com"
set realname = "YOUR_NAME"
set folder = "imaps://imap.gmail.com:993"
set spoolfile = "+INBOX"
set postponed = "+[Gmail]/Drafts"
set header_cache = ~/.mutt/cache/headers
set message_cachedir = ~/.mutt/cache/bodies
set certificate_file = ~/.mutt/certificates
set move = no
set smtp_authenticators = ‘gssapi:login’

@rcode
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rcode commented Jun 1, 2018

changed the quotes.

@caballerofelipe
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Hi,

I wrote a script to do this automatically, you can execute it like this:
sh -c "$(curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/caballerofelipe/scripts/master/mutt/installMuttForGmailOrApps.sh)"

Also, I created the needed dirs.

Or clone the repo and execute the file locally. You can also see the file here.

@devinrhode2
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@caballerofelipe your script is awesome, thank you very much. I even sent a patch with some tweaks+comments (running mac os x mojave)

@caballerofelipe
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@devinrhode2, you welcome ;) Unfortunately I won't be able to check the patch in the near future cause I did this a long time ago and I'm working on other stuff for the time being.

@devinrhode2
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for anyone googling, my pr is here: caballerofelipe/scripts#1
All I did was move the brew install to the end, for reasons outlined in this pr

@jonnyhtw
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hi there

i'm new to mutt and am having trouble getting it to open jpeg and png files using mailcap! i'm on osx catalina.

does anyone have any tips?!

thanks!

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