Mutt

Mutt rocks.

So I can really go into this, but quickly here is a configuration file you can alter. Remember if you don't save it as .muttrc you can still just use another method to invoke it.

Example:

$ LOCAL_CONFIG="NAME" mutt

This is if you have more than one e-mail account. So in our actual ~/.mutt/muttrc file we have:

source ~/.mutt/muttrc.local.$LOCAL_CONFIG

Yup, that's all we have. The LOCAL_CONFIG environment variable determines what we actually are working with, but needless to say, that file needs to exist. Now, let's pretend we have a Gmail account and want to use IMAPS and SMTPS. Here's an example config files contents (you can use this, just put in your e-mail address and your password):

# Set from e-mail address. (doesn't have to be caps, I did that to get your attention)
set from="USERNAME@GMAIL.COM"

###########################################
# IMAP settings

set imap_user=USERNAME@GMAIL.COM
# Notice lack of quotes for password... don't ask, I don't know, it works.
set imap_pass=PASSWORD
set my_imap_server=imap.gmail.com

###########################################
# SMTP

# NOTE: to get this to work, I had to install the libsasl2-modules package
set smtp_pass='PASSWORD'
set smtp_url="smtps://USERNAME@GMAIL.COM:$smtp_pass@smtp.gmail.com:465/"

###########################################
# Mailboxes

set spoolfile=imaps://$my_imap_server/INBOX # Default inbox
set folder=imaps://$my_imap_server/ # Default location of mailboxes
set postponed="imaps://$my_imap_server/[Gmail]/Drafts"
set record="imaps://$my_imap_server/[Gmail]/Sent Mail"

###########################################
# Miscellaneous

set mail_check=300 # How often to check in seconds
set header_cache=~/.mutt/hcache/fastmail # Header caching directory
mailboxes imaps://$my_imap_server/INBOX

Save that file as ~/.mutt/muttrc.local.USERNAME@GMAIL.COM

Actually, you can save it as whatever you want, but just do it.

Then use an alias or something like..

alias mygmail="LOCAL_CONFIG='USERNAME@GMAIL.COM' mutt"