Thanks for your input; I will definitely be looking at the possibility of using offlineimap. I am on a dial up connection - does offlineimap handle dropped connections well?
Thanks again. On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 21:57:21 +0000 (UTC) Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadi...@drabczyk.org> wrote: >On 2017-02-03, sunrise <sunr...@emypeople.net> wrote: >> I would like to start using mutt but am somewhat intimidated by all the >> possible >> options in the muttrc config file. Would someone be willing to provide me >> with a basic >> muttrc I could use to get started? >> >> Here is what I'm looking for: >> >> * POP3 (one provider) for retrieving messages > >I'd just like to add that these days you should give IMAP a try - I >find better than POP3 because it automatically synchronizes >everything. It's easy to use with mutt as well. > >For example, I use offlineimap as the IMAP client on my Slackware box >and K9Mail e-mail client on my phone. When I mark a message as read >on my phone it's automatically marked as read when downloaded with >offlineimap in mutt, when I send a message on either device it's >automatically shown in Sent folder on both devices, and when I move a >a message to a given folder or delete a message it's automatically >synchronized on both devices. It's very convenient, especially if get >a lot of mail.
