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The Homely Mutt

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Re: The Homely Mutt

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Post by sigil »

BCM43 wrote: post #2

I would also recommend people look into notmuch. http://notmuchmail.org/

Tried notmuch a while back, ended up going back to mutt. If you're an emacs user the notmuch mode may work well for you. The notmuch.vim plugin, OTOH, leaves a lot to be desired.

More promising is this fork of mutt that adds notmuch support:

https://github.com/karelzak/mutt-kz

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Post by dsr_ »

I use maildir-utils instead of notmuch as an indexer; notmuch had odd failure modes for me that weren't worth trying to debug.

mutt can also use IMAP/SSL directly, and I do that for some accounts, where I don't want to have local storage.

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Post by danso »

I doubt I have the need to customize GMail to justify doing this amount of work...but this was a very well put-together guide that goes beyond just "how-to-replace-Sparrow" to showing the underpinnings of how e-mail works and the thought process behind a hacked-together interface and service. I'm bookmarking this as an example of a thoroughly useful and informative guide. Thanks for making this.

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Post by microtonal »

If you don't want to store your mail locally, but want nice search functionality, for Google Mail users there's this patch:

http://people.spodhuis.org/phil.pennock/software/mutt-patche...

It'll do search server-side, which means that you have Google's full text search without storing mail locally.

Re: The Homely Mutt

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Post by gurraman »

The weekend has just passed and you submit this on a Monday? Really? Now I'm going to wake up tomorrow, heavy with sleep after spending the wee hours tweaking my configuration and trying out "contacts", "offlineemap", and the sidebar patch (that I thought I didn't want).

Thank goodness I already have mutt installed and configured (almost) to my liking.

Re: The Homely Mutt

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Post by lorenzfx »

if you want to use your CardDAV address book with mutt, you might want to try out pycarddav http://lostpackets.de/pycarddav/ . If you want features like write support, try the write_support branch from github https://github.com/geier/pycarddav/ (you can not really edit vCards just yet, but you can add email address directly from mutt)
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