Using your Gmail contacts in Mutt

I really enjoy using Mutt as my email client. However, sometimes I have to log
into my Gmail account to view my contacts. Tired of this, I exported my Gmail
contacts and imported them into abook.
Now I can view my Gmail contacts in Mutt.
Here’s how I did it:
(Sorry, no cut and paste instructions.)
* Export your [...]

Setting up IMAP on Mutt

After receiving my HP 2710p, I decided to use IMAP instead of POP for
managing my email.  As you know, Mutt is my primary MUA (mail user agent).
The benefits of this setup are obvious: synchronous email (both on the computer
and on the webserver), space savings, and less programs to configure.
In this example, I’ll be setting up [...]

Customising Email Signatures with Fortune

When I look at someone’s email signature and see a thought-provoking quote like “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent” (Salvor Hardin), I add it to my mental list of quotes, which, of course, is soon forgotten. Now, with a bit of pipe magic, I can use Mutt and fortune to make my [...]

Adding additional email accounts to your email setup

Upon hearing that my college offers email access through its POP and SMTP servers, I immediately set out to integrate it into my email setup.
Today I will show you how.
Note: I use Mutt to read my email, getmail to retrieve my mail, procmail to filter my mail, and msmtp to send my mail.  This tutorial [...]

Setting up Mutt

Mutt is an extremely fast and flexible text-based mail user agent with local maildir, POP3, and IMAP support.  It is my default mail client by choice.  Today, I will show you my Mutt configuration; perhaps it’ll help you to setup Mutt as well.
The diagram to the left (created with ) shows my ~/.mutt hierarchy.  I’ll [...]

My Desktop – The Terminal

This will be the final post covering my desktop.
If you look in the bottom left corner of the screenshot, you will see my terminal, rxvt-unicode.
For the most part, I’m a cli person.  I prefer the terminal because of it’s speed.
In the terminal, you can see me running irssi (an irc client) within screen, a detachable [...]