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#19 Using the Mutt Email Client With Gmail

Mutt is a great text-based email client I've been using recently. Mutt is very simple to use but still highly configurable.

In this episode we will configure Mutt to use Gmail's IMAP interface to retrieve our email from Gmail.

Check out the Mutt Wiki for lots of great info and help.

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set imap_user = 'user@gmail.com'
set imap_pass = 'password'
set spoolfile = imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/INBOX
set folder = imaps://imap.gmail.com:993
set postponed=”imaps://imap.gmail.com/[Gmail]/Drafts”
set header_cache=”~/.mutt/cache/headers”
set message_cachedir=”~/.mutt/cache/bodies”
set certificate_file=~/.mutt/certificates

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