Hi,
What role does the two factor authentication play?
I am unsure I have an option for that, unless gmail still sends a message
to the alternative email on the account.
Will add, my options are based on what shellworld provides..they have mutt
I have discovered.
Be blessed indeed in return,
Kare
On Tue, 21 Nov 2023, Ishe Chinyoka wrote:
Hi,
I use mutt and gmail. What I can say is that, first you need to enable
two-factor on your Gmail account. Then, second, you have to generate an
app password for mutt. Having copied the generated password, you have to
set up both an Imap and msmtp utilities such as offlineimap for fetching
the mail, and msmtp for sending the mail. Of course, I understand mutt
can handle both these operations, so you can set up in the .muttrc, but
as for me I use other external programmes for doing just that.
What I did was to set up the ~/.netrc file where I stored my login
credentials so both offlineimap and msmtp use this .netrc to read the
gmail app password.
As for mutt accessibility, as a text mail handler, it is just fine. You
can use vim for composing your messages.
Anyway, mutt has many configuration items. The mutt manual is detailed
in how each of these settings affect the behaviour of mutt itself. I
hope others can chip in. But I just wanted to help on how I set up mutt
with gmail on my machine.
Be blessed,
Ishe
Karen Lewellen <klewellen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Hi,
my problem though is that I need access to the inbox contents entirely,
not just to forward.
The Debian list is currently discussing things like mutt with gmail, and
imap as an alternative.
Apparently this bypasses the security problems with gmail in general?
And yes, I send from it too..agree that hosting your own mail has
positives.
Thanks,
Karen
On Mon, 20 Nov 2023, Jason J.G. White wrote:
On 20/11/23 17:30, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Anyone use mutt that can lend documentation, or a hand?
I'm familiar with Mutt, but not with using it with Gmail. In particular, it
is my understanding that authentication is more complicated now than it used
to be, due to Google's security policies.
This article seems to be a reasonably up to date starting point:
https://www.thetechedvocate.org/how-to-install-and-configure-mutt-with-gmail-on-linux/
I have a GMail account, but it's configured to forward everything to one of
my "real" e-mail accounts, and I don't use it to send messages. My Mutt
configuration is et up to work with mail on my own server.