[aquaclear]

Whew, ever since I installed Fink and X11, I have become a question asking fool! But here is another one since I did a search and did not come up with much. The man pages did not see to help much either.

I fink install mutt. No problem. I ran mutt in the terminal.app. No problem. The problem seems to be that is states no /usr/mail/username. How do I even get into the inbox? I thought I read something about fetchmail. Do I need this? I have seen some sample .muttrc files as well. Can someone explain if I need to install any other file/app to get me up and running? Plus, where do I even assign the pop3/imap and smtp? If someone can point me to a well documented/easy to understand place to get the info I would appreciate it.

Again thanks for all the info so far, this whole *nix thing is fun!

Do other people prefer pine or elm vs mutt? I know Apple has a great mail application but I wanted to try the *nix side of things. Plus I am really learning alot about *nix on the way

[malbicho]

ath the moment i use mutt with imap support, so i do not need any fetchmail, i just set as spoolfile {myaddress@mydomain.something} and it simply connects. this for imap.
for po the thing is completely different as you have to use fetchmail (and procmail if you want to do things well).
for smtp i have my own postfix MTA on my box. it is a popular geeky solution having a sendmail running on the box

[aquaclear]

Okay I found a pretty good site for those interested.

http://www.mutt.blackfish.org.uk

Hope this helps.

[Zim]

I personally use elm.

I fully believe the marketing the mutt is "NewElm", and certainly handles attachments better, but I've used elm for *censored* years, and well, it still does what I need (and gosh, my address book never gets a virus ).

My setup is this...

- fetchmail running on a cron job retrieving mail from my various accts (fewer since .mac stopped being free)

- elm reading mail from /var/mail/username

- imapd from wu running as well

- mutt in imap mode connecting to me as a local imap server

- squirrelmail set up to run on my web server for webmail access into my machine (as imap host), for when I can't get my normal ssh connection.

- Mozilla set up with my machine as the imap host.

- Mail.app never gets launched... I thin its better now, but had a tendency to wipe all /var/mail in its early days...

I think it was slashdot that had several articles on getting the wu-imapd and sendmail working.

YMMV on how you want things to work.

Mike

[kvm_mkdb]

Did you look at http://www.mutt.org ?

Anyway, here's a snippet from my .muttrc:

Code:
set from="me@host.com"
set folder=imap://mail.host.com
set mbox=imap://mail.host.com/INBOX
set postponed=imap://mail.host.com/Drafts
set record="imap://mail.host.com/Sent\ Messages"

set imap_user=username
set imap_pass="password"
set imap_checkinterval=5

This should allow you to use your imap account.

hth...

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by Zim:
I personally use elm.

I seem to recall that elm did not compile on OSX. Has this changed?

[malbicho]

i suggest postfix as MTA...it is light-weight and if you patch it with the tls patch it works perfectly and you get a fully working TLS enabled environment.
i use it for my mailserver + mysql + courier imapd and pop3d and it works great.

[Zim]

Originally posted by Arkham_c:
I seem to recall that elm did not compile on OSX. Has this changed?

I guess we'd better whisper so that my copy of elm doesn't hear that its not supposed to be working....

[CODE]
~/tmp/elm2.5.6 >elm -v

Elm Version and Identification Information:

Elm 2.5 PL6, of August 7, 2001
(C) Copyright 1988-1999 USENET Community Trust
Based on Elm 2.0, (C) Copyright 1986,1987 Dave Taylor
----------------------------------
Configured Wed Aug 7 18:54:50 EDT 2002
----------------------------------
Use UNIX Mailbox Delimiters and /usr/sbin/sendmail Mail Transport Agent: not MMDF
Let the MTA add the From: header: DONT_ADD_FROM
Following mail spool locking protocols will be used: USE_FLOCK_LOCKING
From: and Reply-To: addresses are good: USE_EMBEDDED_ADDRESSES
Ignore Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions: not MIME_RECV
Prefers Internet address formats: INTERNET
No debug options are available: not DEBUG
Lib dir is: /usr/local/lib
Crypt function enabled: CRYPT
Mailbox editing not included: not ALLOW_MAILBOX_EDITING
Status changing not included: not ALLOW_STATUS_CHANGING
Subshell menu items included: ALLOW_SUBSHELL
Use setegid(): HAS_SETEGID
Spell checking feature disabled: not ISPELL
Calendar file feature disabled: not ENABLE_CALENDAR
[\CODE]

I had minor touble figuring out which locking system to use, but I don't recall needing anything more than a 'configure' and a 'make'. Maybe even several makes (either elm or trn would abort the compile often, and a subsequent make would get it going again)...

Been using it since 10.0 came out.

Mike