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Re: A vim interface for gmail: Vmail

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Post by leephillips » Fri, Dec 14, 2012, 8:04 PM UTC

ef4 wrote: post #15

dysoco wrote: post #4

Wow, I love the idea. I have always wanted to manage my mail via terminal, but didn't want to set up Mutt or something similar.

Setting up mutt for GMail these days is no harder than setting up vmail. This is a complete config file for mutt that will connect to your gmail account: set folder=imaps://imap.gmail.com:993 set spoolfile=+INBOX set imap_user='your_username@gmail.com' set smtp_url = "smtp://your_username@smtp.gmail.com:587/" If you don't want to enter your password every time, you can set it as imap_pass (for reading) and smtp_pass…

Exactly. I don't understand the advantage of "vmail" over mutt, which is extremely powerful and mature, and of course can be configured to use vim, -- but I admit I just skimmed the link, so I could be missing something.

Note also that you must use caution when using Google's smtp and other network services, as they tend to do whatever they want, regardless of RFCs and standards[1].

[1]http://lee-phillips.org/gmailRewriting/

Re: A vim interface for gmail: Vmail

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Post by antidoh » Fri, Dec 14, 2012, 8:06 PM UTC

pge wrote: post #5

for vim fans, another option is mutt or alpine with vim as your editor. Both work with gmail.

Yeah. This is cool and all, but it's kind of like modifying your cigarette lighter to carry passengers.

Re: A vim interface for gmail: Vmail

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Post by baydinalex » Fri, Dec 14, 2012, 8:10 PM UTC

I love it. For decades, my flame war offensives against the evil crusaders of Emacs have stalled out against their Maginot Line of "But Emacs can be your mail client too!" This is like a Blitzkrieg of flame war glory. PARIS PREPARE TO BE MINE!!!

Re: A vim interface for gmail: Vmail

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Post by dllthomas » Fri, Dec 14, 2012, 8:32 PM UTC

pge wrote: post #5

for vim fans, another option is mutt or alpine with vim as your editor. Both work with gmail.

Also nmh, though it can be complicated to set up (especially to set up well). Still meaning to put together a tutorial / description of my setup...

Re: A vim interface for gmail: Vmail

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Post by tsm » Fri, Dec 14, 2012, 8:32 PM UTC

alexpopescu wrote: post #12

iawesome!thanks danielESC:wq

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Re: A vim interface for gmail: Vmail

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Post by donniezazen » Fri, Dec 14, 2012, 8:38 PM UTC

chimeracoder wrote: post #16

dmmalam wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OSX has keychain which is designed for these scenarios. http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2006/01/16/keychain... https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Secur...

Several Linux tools for this purpose have existed for a while as well - gnome-keyring (now seahorse)[1], KWallet, etc. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_Keyring

It came to my notice a few days ago that Gnome stored my Google Password in Gnome Keyring as simple text.

Re: A vim interface for gmail: Vmail

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Post by chimeracoder » Fri, Dec 14, 2012, 8:42 PM UTC

donniezazen wrote: post #26

chimeracoder wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Several Linux tools for this purpose have existed for a while as well - gnome-keyring (now seahorse)[1], KWallet, etc. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_Keyring

It came to my notice a few days ago that Gnome stored my Google Password in Gnome Keyring as simple text.

How did you come to this conclusion? If you've found a bug, please file a ticket.

Gnome keyring definitely uses encryption to store passwords; they take security pretty seriously: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/SecurityPhilosophy

Re: A vim interface for gmail: Vmail

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Post by eggoa » Fri, Dec 14, 2012, 8:52 PM UTC

To me, here at work on a Windows machine, that looks like way too many dependencies for me. Looks cool, though.

Re: A vim interface for gmail: Vmail

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Post by tommorris » Fri, Dec 14, 2012, 8:56 PM UTC

This is pretty awesome. I've used Mutt in the past but always found it a little bit over-the-top. This is very, very simple to setup and does the job pretty well.

But better than that... oh my word, the documentation. How I wish every command line app had that kind of documentation. Just one page that documents the shit out of it.

There's only one thing that would make it better: if that documentation came bundled with the RubyGem so I could read it offline with `ri`.

Re: A vim interface for gmail: Vmail

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Post by kecebongsoft » Fri, Dec 14, 2012, 8:58 PM UTC

chimeracoder wrote: post #27

donniezazen wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It came to my notice a few days ago that Gnome stored my Google Password in Gnome Keyring as simple text.

How did you come to this conclusion? If you've found a bug, please file a ticket. Gnome keyring definitely uses encryption to store passwords; they take security pretty seriously: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/SecurityPhilosophy

I think what he meant was seahorse. I just tried it out and I can see my raw passwords by clicking properties and ticking 'Show Password'. Shocked as well, not to mention seahorse is launched without asking my password.