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Preface
I migrate with my working environment to laptop. My workstation going older and I don’t have time to maintain few systems to keep it clean and in sync. I probably have to improve my work flow but right now I have different problems. Few weeks ago after changing environment to mobile and powerful laptop I also changed OS to Ubuntu and mail client to Thunderbird. I have to admit that both choices were mistake and I want to came back to Debian and Mutt.
This post is about throwing out Thunderbird and a logical continuation of Mutt tutorial (part 1, 2, 3 and 4). So what was wrong with Thunderbrid?
- Not clear configuration settings - for example I tried to wrap word at 80th character, default value was set to 72 but it seems not work anyway. I try to use few googled hints but nothing works.
- Setting up Thunderbird to work as a community developer tool was not so obvious.
- Junk messages was marked but default filter show everything so for some IMAP boxes I get lot of spam and had hard time to find anything out there.
- Conversation mode should be easily toggled.
- GUI slow switching between different modes.
- Lack of my editor of choice. If I decide to use GUI tool for some reason I require from it to be intuitive and most of my options should be available at few clicks. Probably most of my problems I could solve by giving enough effort to google it but if I have to choose hard to configure MUA I will probably be in favor of terminal tool like Mutt. So right now I’m back with Mutt and determination to adjust Mutt to my work flow.
Git and undelete old configuration
I won’t go through whole Mutt tutorial once more time. I remember that there was muttrc in my workspace git repository. So first goolge query returned what needed I found this stackoverflow post. I reverted muttrc and other related files deletion.
Short information
- In Ubuntu there is no
gpgpackage, to get encryption you can usegpgsm. - If your e-mail account provider require user name with
@(at sign), then you can pass it in mutt using below pattern:
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- You can debug Mutt using
-d 5parameter, this option creates$HOME/.muttdebug0file with verbose output, debug option can be changed in range 1-5. - Use latest-greatest version compiled from source instead version provided by
distribution repository. It can help you get rid of problems like
tls_socket_read (Decryption has failed.). - Some accounts will not work with authenticating method presented in my previous post about gpg (mutt tutorial part 2). To workaround this you can use different format of folder variable:
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Compile Mutt from source
If you looking for latest Mutt version consider compiling mutt by yourself. First, download sources:
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There are lot of options to prepare Mutt compilation, but right now I can suggest this parameters:
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If make will complain about gssapi/gssapi.h: No such file or directory then
you need to install libkrb5-dev:
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Summary
That’s all in this post but I’m sure that there will be next in this topic. I hope to improve my whole workflow and write few posts about improving productivity using open source tools.
