Re: Interfacing mutt with Dovecott

2022-07-19 Thread Thomas Zajic

* Steve Litt, 18.07.22 19:20


All my email for the past 20 years is held on a Dovecot IMAP
server (version 2.3.19.1 (9b53102964)) on my desktop. I've been using
Claws-Mail but want to switch to Mutt.
[...]
I know some people have been very successful running Mutt to access an
IMAP server, so it appears to be possible. How should I run Mutt to
access my Dovecot?


With dovecot-2.3.19.1 and mutt-2.2.6 and/or neomutt-20220429, this is
all that's needed to make it work (your "imap_authenticators" setting
should match your own setup, obviously):


[zlatko@disclosure:~]$ grep -i imap .muttrc
set folder="imaps://myu...@imap.mydomain.net"
set imap_user="myuser"
set imap_pass="mypass"
set imap_authenticators="cram-md5"
set imap_check_subscribed=yes
set imap_idle=yes
set imap_keepalive=600
set imap_peek=no
set imap_passive=no
set spoolfile="imaps://myu...@imap.mydomain.net/"


No problems with missing folders whatsoever.

HTH
Thomas


Interfacing mutt with Dovecott

2022-07-18 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all,

All my email for the past 20 years is held on a Dovecot IMAP
server (version 2.3.19.1 (9b53102964)) on my desktop. I've been using
Claws-Mail but want to switch to Mutt.

In the past I've tried this, but Mutt was unreliable in reading folders
from my local Dovecot server. It didn't see a lot of the folders.

I know some people have been very successful running Mutt to access an
IMAP server, so it appears to be possible. How should I run Mutt to
access my Dovecot?

Also, in the past I've used Claws-Mail to admin my Dovecot folders
(make new folders, move folders, etc). I've heard there are one or more
Dovecot provided tools to do this kind of admin. What are the names of
those tools?

Thanks,

SteveT

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