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| author | Eddie Kovsky <ewk@edkovsky.org> | 2015-11-06 09:25:35 +0300 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2015-11-11 20:55:41 +0300 |
| commit | 91633a6dc7cb49ae7c3d268e183ddc905e739fff (patch) | |
| tree | 9cc146e5f3a669e03b37ef94212b3529fcadecc2 /Documentation | |
| parent | 803cfe2635cff6ea2147dc1065b5bd0bb98c6394 (diff) | |
| download | linux-91633a6dc7cb49ae7c3d268e183ddc905e739fff.tar.xz | |
Documentation: Add minimal Mutt config for using Gmail
This patch provides a minimal configuration to set up Mutt for
submitting plain text patches using Gmail.
Signed-off-by: Eddie Kovsky <ewk@edkovsky.org>
Reviewed-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/email-clients.txt | 32 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt index 3c2f7acf5701..a6e91506fd88 100644 --- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt +++ b/Documentation/email-clients.txt @@ -185,6 +185,38 @@ It should work with default settings. However, it's a good idea to set the "send_charset" to: set send_charset="us-ascii:utf-8" +Mutt is highly customizable. Here is a minimum configuration to start +using Mutt to send patches through Gmail: + +# .muttrc +# ================ IMAP ==================== +set imap_user = 'yourusername@gmail.com' +set imap_pass = 'yourpassword' +set spoolfile = imaps://imap.gmail.com/INBOX +set folder = imaps://imap.gmail.com/ +set record="imaps://imap.gmail.com/[Gmail]/Sent Mail" +set postponed="imaps://imap.gmail.com/[Gmail]/Drafts" +set mbox="imaps://imap.gmail.com/[Gmail]/All Mail" + +# ================ SMTP ==================== +set smtp_url = "smtp://username@smtp.gmail.com:587/" +set smtp_pass = $imap_pass +set ssl_force_tls = yes # Require encrypted connection + +# ================ Composition ==================== +set editor = `echo \$EDITOR` +set edit_headers = yes # See the headers when editing +set charset = UTF-8 # value of $LANG; also fallback for send_charset +# Sender, email address, and sign-off line must match +unset use_domain # because joe@localhost is just embarrassing +set realname = "YOUR NAME" +set from = "username@gmail.com" +set use_from = yes + +The Mutt docs have lots more information: + http://dev.mutt.org/trac/wiki/UseCases/Gmail + http://dev.mutt.org/doc/manual.html + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pine (TUI) |