Comments on: imapfilter + offlineimap + msmtp + mutt + abook = email

By: Prashant Borole

Prashant Borole — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:40:44 +0000

saved me a bunch of hours configuring imapfilter. Thanks!

By: Consilience — New Laptop: Setting up Email

Consilience — New Laptop: Setting up Email — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:23:51 +0000

[...] my email configuration addiction continues. As you may recall, I did an extensive (now out-dated) post about my email setup. I’m still using the basic configuration outlined there (all of the same [...]

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:05:38 +0000

@Jojo: Great idea. I was actually just thinking about how I was going to set up that functionality. Hadn’t got to the google-searching part of the process so you just saved me some time! Thanks!

By: Jojo

Jojo — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:25:17 +0000

Great article. Looks a lot like my setup. One thing you should consider to complete your workflow is msmtp-enqueue so you can “send” emails from mutt even if you’re offline.

By: Adam Bair

Adam Bair — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:39:15 +0000

Hey Greg – thanks for the article. I was able to get up and running with mutt, offlineimap, msmtp, and abook across multiple gmail accounts.

Much appreciated!

By: Redshift

Redshift — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:12:11 +0000

Great post, thank you for sharing.
I would replace the “$1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9″ list in smtpforward.sh with “$@”, so that you do not need to know how many arguments will be there (just in case).

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:01:51 +0000

@John: Thanks for the comment. I actually added those comments in only for the version I put online (iow: it was untested). I just checked the version I have running myself and it does not included those inline comments.

My bad :)

By: John Lawrence

John Lawrence — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:46:21 +0000

Thanks for this, really useful!

I had a bit of a problem with the offlineimaprc which I copied from you as it didn’t like the inline comments like:
autorefresh = 10 # minutes until next sync

It seems fine if the whole line is a comment though, like:
#### GMAIL Account Settings ####

Hope that’s of use to anyone setting this up!

John.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:25:48 +0000

@etank:
offineimap downloads the email in whatever state it is in on the imap server (so in this case “unread”). Then, in my case, mutt will read it and mark the copy on my harddrive as read. Then, when offlineimap syncs with the imap server it marks the copy on the server as read.

By: etank

etank — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:16:23 +0000

So does offlineimap mark an email as read once it copies it? If not then you can read an email in mutt and then go to GMail and it shows as unread.