I would be grateful if some kind soul guided my hand on configuring mutt to behave like ... errm ... kmail! O_o
Before you have a go, please let me explain myself. I love kmail, or better
said, I *used to* love kmail as it was back then when no semantic desktop, no
mysql database, no akonadi, no redland and what not, was imposed upon us. I
have no need for anything else than what kmail used to do back in the latter
part of KDE3. A simple flat file address book (OK, use sqlite if you really
must) and the simple search for messages it used to offer, was all that I ever
needed. In particular I found its integration with kgpg and kleopatra
extremely useful, and this is what has stopped me moving to other GUI mail
clients. I tried many of them was surprised to see how much better kmail was
for my needs.
Anyway, this was back then. Now kmail 1 is heading towards extinction and it
is a matter of time before devs pull the plug and push us all to the kmail 2
abomination. Since the full KDEPIM semantic bloatware is not to my liking and
I do not wish to allow kmail 2 to irreversibly lose my thousands of mail
messages, I thought of giving mutt a closer look. I had used mutt on and off
in a simple IMAP set up. Now however I would like to use it on my laptop,
with the need for offline access to read and draft/edit my messages, multiple
accounts and quirky settings. There are a number of things that feel awkward
with mutt and I am not sure if this is because mutt is just not for me, or
because it takes much more effort to configure functions, which on a modern
GUI client are just a click away.
So, let me start with the basics. I am using Gmail, for which I have
configured kmail to POP and download my messages in a local maildir without
deleting these from the server. The Gmail settings on the server show:
POP enabled
Leave POPped messages on server
IMAP enabled
With the above settings (not sure if they veer from the original Gmail
defaults) I am able to POP the Gmail server inbox and rather importantly I'm
also able to 'sync' with any sent messages on the server. I will not pretend
to understand how the latter is performed - haven't sniffed the packets to see
what happens - but this is what I get:
- When I send a message from kmail it will be saved in my local maildir sent
gmail subfolder and will also show up in the Sent folder of the Gmail webmail.
- When I send a message from the Gmail webmail the message will show up as
new (and downloaded if I click on it) when I launch my kmail.
- This sync'ing happens once only. If I thereafter delete a message on the
server the local copy is not affected and vice versa. This is useful for me
because I can delete locally any messages which are not particularly
important, but might want to refer to them in the distant future. Delete
messages on the server that I only want to keep locally. Delete both when I
don't want to keep them whatsoever.
However, I am at a loss as to how I should configure my .muttrc to achieve
this functionality. Ideally I would also like to replicate my current kmail
maildir folder structure in mutt, so that I can access the Gmail server with
either client; e.g.
~/Mail/
|_inbox (all unfiltered messages drop in here)
|_.inbox.directory
|_.Gentoo.directory
|_Gentoo
|_cur
|_new
|_tmp
Can you please point me in the right direction for this set up?
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Regards,
Mick
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