Apologies upfront for sending this from within Gmail web interface instead of Mutt!
I have been using Mutt (v. 1.13.2, Linux Mint 20.1) off and on for a few months now. Cameron Simpson was a great help in getting me started. I can send and receive email via IMAP/SMTP with my Gmail account. I have a cobbled together muttrc file and mailcap file that seem to get the job (mostly) done, but I have a few things that are keeping me from going whole-hearted Mutt. Of course whatever issues I am having probably stem from my ignorance and lack of technical chops. Here are some of the things that are bothersome that I have not been able to solve: 1) Mutt erratically loses connection with Gmail and I have to manually reconnect. Sometimes this happens rather frequently as in multiple instances within an hour. I am confident it is not my Internet connection, which is normally quite stable and fast. For instance my streaming music is never interrupted, the family's TV shows continue unimpeded, etc., but my connectivity to Gmail is interrupted randomly. If I have both Mutt and the web interface open, Mutt has its interruptions while the Gmail web interface appears to be updating normally. 2) Read mail becomes inexplicably returned to a "new" status, both in Mutt and in Gmail when I am using Mutt, but do not have the Gmail web interface open or if I have both open. However, if I only use the Gmail interface and keep Mutt deactivated this does not happen. And this is somewhat random happening as well, but within the course of each day it *will* happen. I can clear the "new" status and it will reappear. It only happens to a few emails in my list at any given time, but tends to be a similar contiguous block of emails. 3) I initially started trying to map my various Gmail folders to Mutt, but Mutt seemed to put emails into Gmail folders unexpectedly. For instance if I received emails from the aforementioned Cameron via the Python Tutor list and replied to the Tutor list without cc'ing Cameron, his future emails in that thread might appear in a Gmail folder where I had kept other emails from Cameron. This was quite puzzling to me. It only went away when I limited my muttrc to just +INBOX and Trash. 4) Despite setting "mailboxes = +INBOX" and "set beep_new", I never ever heard a beep when new mail arrived, though other system notifications both popup and beep when those events happen, such as a Google calendar notification. 5) I am able to view HTML emails via w3c, but I get weekly (and some daily) emails from news aggregation services like Pycoders Weekly, TLDR, etc., that have embedded links that never show up in the w3c display. If I find I want to view an interesting article I have to fire up the Gmail interface and click on it there. I have not been able to resolve this one and it is quite annoying to seemingly have to leave Mutt to access these articles in my browser. I'm sure this is a lack of understanding on my part, but I have not figured it out yet. Other explicit attachments like pdfs, image formats, etc. I have no trouble opening up from within Mutt nor do I have trouble with explicit links that do show up that I am able to open from within Mutt and display in my browser. These are the main troubles I am having. I would like to eventually transition from Gmail to ProtonMail, but that adds another layer of complexity as ProtonMail needs bridge software installed and configured for Mutt. Until I solve my Gmail dilemmas it seems pointless to attempt the potentially more complex ProtonMail configuration to come. Thanks in advance! boB Stepp
