Calmail mutt

Using mutt with Calmail

Here are instructions for configuring mutt to use IMAP with Calmail. mutt is a powerful command line mail client, capable of using IMAP.

In order to use mutt with Calmail, you'll need to configure some settings in your .muttrc file. For a working example, take a look at the muttrc file in ~steve/.mutt. ~steve/.mutt/muttrc sources several other files in that directory.

mutt.ssl

## SSL
#
# $Id$
#
  set ssl_starttls
  set certificate_file="~/.mutt/certificates"
  set ssl_usesystemcerts
  set entropy_file="/dev/random"
  set ssl_use_sslv2
  set ssl_use_sslv3
  set ssl_use_tlsv1

mutt.imap

## IMAP
#
# $Id$
#
  #set imap_authenticators="gssapi:cram-md5:login"
unset imap_authenticators
  set imap_delim_chars="/."
#unset imap_force_ssl
#unset imap_home_namespace
  set imap_keepalive=600
unset imap_list_subscribed
unset imap_pass
  set imap_passive
  set imap_peek
  set imap_servernoise
  set imap_user=""

mutt.mailboxes

## MAILBOXES
#
# $Id$
#
mailboxes imap://mail.math.berkeley.edu/
mailboxes imap://steve@ls.berkeley.edu/
mailboxes imap://steve@math.berkeley.edu@calmail.berkeley.edu/
mailboxes imap://steve@math.berkeley.edu@calmail.berkeley.edu/consult
mailboxes imap://steve@math.berkeley.edu@calmail.berkeley.edu/daemon
mailboxes imap://steve@math.berkeley.edu@calmail.berkeley.edu/admin
mailboxes imap://steve@math.berkeley.edu@calmail.berkeley.edu/cfengine
mailboxes imap://steve@math.berkeley.edu@calmail.berkeley.edu/cron
mailboxes imap://steve@math.berkeley.edu@calmail.berkeley.edu/lscr
mailboxes imap://steve@math.berkeley.edu@calmail.berkeley.edu/ucb-sysadmin
mailboxes imap://sizemore@calmail.berkeley.edu/
mailboxes imap://sizemore@calmail.berkeley.edu/MTC
mailboxes imap://srsizemore@imap.gmail.com/

-- Steve Sizemore - Unix System Manager 17:05, 19 March 2009 (UTC)