Gmail and Mutt Howto
====================

I didn't make any of this stuff up.  I found a lot of useful howtos and 
tutorials on the web.  Some worked, some didn't.  I eventually settled on doing
it the way that is described by stoyan in his blog entry here:

http://typo.onxen.info/articles/2006/06/27/activemailer-sending-via-gmail

(That's how I got mail to be SENT, which is the "hard" part).

I also got some information from the document here:

http://mogrify.homelinux.org/2006/01/03/using-mutt-with-gmail/



Okay, on Ubuntu, I did:
sudo apt-get install mutt
sudo apt-get install msmtp

Here are the relavant configuration files:



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* $HOME/.muttrc *
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NOTE:  Change the permissions on this file (~/.muttrc) to 0600
       'your_username' is just that, your username on the domain 'gmail.com',
       for example, if your email address is:  johndoe@gmail.com, then your 
       username is: johndoe.

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set pop_host="pops://your_username:your_password@pop.gmail.com:995"
set pop_last
unset pop_delete
exec fetch-mail
set sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp"

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* $HOME/.msmtprc *
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account gmail
host smtp.gmail.com
auth on
user your_username@gmail.com
password your_gmail_password
tls on
tls_starttls on
from your_username@gmail.com
maildomain gmail.com
account default : gmail
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NOTE:  You'll also have to touch a file when you first use mutt, because it
will not automatically create the mail spool, at least that is my experience.
I cannot remember exactly how I did that, but its not hard to do.