1. I have more than two dozen accounts, mostly Google. I don't deal with them in Mutt, but with a script that calls Mutt and provides necessary info for each account. Makes my Mutt config simpler, I think.
The command "mutt" reads my work (non Google) email. I have one script for all my gmail accounts and link to that script with the name of each account so I can read only that one if I wish. My command "gmail-hokan.ho...@gmail.com" permits me to read email for the account I'm using to reply here. My command "gmail-generic" sequentially starts Mutt for each of 5 accounts I read often. My command "gmail-all" does the obvious. 3. set mail_check=60 4. For HTML I have this in my .mailcap: text/html;lynx -dump %s;copiousoutput;nametemplate=%s.html ; print = chromiumurl %s; On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 03:03:42PM +0000, John Long wrote: > Hi, > > I've been a casual mutter for around 10 years. I have it working with > PGP, S/MIME, all that I need...for one account. The only thing is, I am > increasingly dissatisfied with the direction GUI clients are going. I > had one I have been using for years and it just keeps getting more and > more features, incompatible changes, and bugs. Several of them > encrypted my account credentials so I couldn't retrieve them. At one > point I downloaded the source for it and put printf statements so I > could recover my credentials to use with another client. I like mutt's > text config. > > I have around 10 email accounts I use actively for various mailing > lists, work, personal etc. > > 1. Is it reasonable to use Mutt with many email accounts? I know you > probably can, but is it reasonable as in, is it manageable, is the > performance good enough on a midrange box. Usability stuff, like will > mutt automagically respond using the correct account (the account the > email I'm replying to was received by), is it clear when you compose > which account you're using. Etc. > > 2. I have around 100,000 emails right now between all my accounts. I > have one pop account because my ISP mail server doesn't support IMAP. > I use IMAP with all the rest. I like having the email on my box(es) > rather than leaving it on servers. Of the mailbox flavors, which is > appropriate for this volume of email?...and also for the let's say 200 > a day I get between the various mailing lists I'm on. > > 3. I seem to remember that mutt didn't poll automagically for pop3 or > IMAP or both. Is that still true? Is there a way to get mutt to check > mail every 10 minutes, 15, etc. without middleware? I don't want to get > into fetchmail, getmail etc. I want the client to do it all. > > 4. For the idiots who persist in sending HTML email, even my current > GUI client borks, sometimes badly, and the email is unreadable. Is > there any tolerable HTML support in Mutt? -- Hokan Bicyclist Sysadmin
