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1. #Mac configure mutt for gmail archive#
2. #Mac configure mutt for gmail password#
3. #Mac configure mutt for gmail Offline#

In the following instructions, replace GMAILUSERNAME with your GMail username or other email service username, and replace NIXUSER with your log-in name on your local machine.

#Mac configure mutt for gmail password#

Also, the simple setup below includes writing your password as plain text in the offlineimap configuration file. For instance, my setup, used as an example, below, gives me a local, on/off-line Alpine interface to my GMail.Ī limitation is that this does not cover the setup for sending messages while offline. It is especially useful when combined with Offlineimap, which syncs your local mail repository with whatever is your primary email server. We aim to bundle a setup of Alpine and Dovecot in order to make this option easy. This makes it easy to swap in or out any other mail client. Thanks to Asheesh Laroia, I now have a simple installation that allows alpine to seamlessly use a local IMAP server as a plugin-interface to my email. That means making public, or offering as pre-fabricated packages, simple setups for the various email clients. The solution is to store mail locally in a Maildir format and to have easy and robust ways for any/each email client to communicate with the local mail repository. If they are to be seen to work together as a system, the interface between them should ideally be updated automatically. to have the key connections between components be updated at the package level when the underlying daemons etc are updated for instance, dovecot has changed a couple of times recently, upsetting people’s settings in the offlineimap or alpine configuration.to be able to switch between email clients when I like, rather than being tied to one by its own storage format.

That is, I want my email client to show my GMail labels (as folders) and to add them to messages and to move messages around, just like GMail does.

#Mac configure mutt for gmail archive#

to be able to use fast, keyboard-driven interfaces which nicely integrate my favourite editor into email composition and maybe even navigation.to have my email accessible locally, ie “offline”, not just because I am sometimes reading it on a bus but because it’s much faster that way.I would, ultimately, like to see the setup of alpine / mutt / emacs / etc email clients be as easy as GUI clients, at least for those who want a pretty standard setup. Orientationįinally, I think we can move beyond the dreaded “maildir patch” problems associated with Pine/Alpine/Realpine since it became fully open-source. In particular, it describes the set-up of offline-accessible mail through the Alpine (formerly Pine, shortly Realpine) email client under (Ubuntu/Debian) GNU/Linux.

#Mac configure mutt for gmail Offline#

If you think non-graphical email clients are efficient or otherwise desirable, and want offline access to your email, this post describes a step forward.