GMAIL + IMAP + MUTT

How to use our gmail account from console with mutt?

So this is how I configured mutt to access my gmail account via IMAP.

Open your ~/.muttrc and set the following options

If your user account on gmail is yourname@googlemail.com then set your folder as follow:


set folder = imaps://yourname@imap.googlemail.com
set imap_pass = yourpass

Notice...yourpass will be saved in clear text on ~/.muttrc.

Do you want to save your postponed mail (written with mutt) on gmail drafts? :)

Add in your ~/.muttrc the following row:


set postponed = "=[Google Mail]/Drafts"


And now, how to send email from mutt via smtp.googlemail.com?

As MTA I installed esmtp:

apt-get install esmtp


Then I configured mutt to use esmtp as MTA, adding in ~/.muttrc:

set sendmail = "esmtp -v -X ~/tmp/esmtp.log"


Then I configured esmpt editing /etc/esmtprc:

hostname=smtp.googlemail.com
username=yourname@gmail.com
password=yourpass
starttls=enabled

Notice that also /etc/esmtprc is a clear text, so yourpass would be read from root