Here's my situation: I have a personal gmail account, and a google apps gmail account via my job.
A lot of the configuration stuff (gpg in particular) was copy/pasted from some website a few years ago. Kudos to them. If I only remembered who they were, I'd give credit where credit is due.
Since I'm paranoid about protecting my identitity, let's say that the google apps account is vera@hill.com and my gmail account is verahill@gmail.com (it isn't).
Here's how it can be done:
1. create ~/.mutt
2. You want to create the following files in ~/.mutt :
private.account
work.account
muttrc
Optional:
aliases
signature.private
signature.work
signature.work
3. Here are the contents of the files (the passwords are from http://xkcd.com/936/):
~/.mutt/private.account:
set from=verahill@gmail.com
set hostname="gmail.com"
unset folder
set folder="imaps://verahill@gmail.com@imap.gmail.com"
set postponed="=Drafts"
set record="=Sent"
set smtp_url="smtps://verahill@gmail.com@smtp.gmail.com"
set spoolfile="imaps://imap.gmail.com/INBOX"
set from='Vera Hill <verahill@gmail.com>'
set signature="~/.mutt/signature.private"
~/.mutt/work.account:
set from=vera@hill.com
set hostname="hill.com"
unset folder
set folder="imaps://vera@hill.com@imap.gmail.com"
set smtp_url="smtps://vera@hill.com@smtp.gmail.com"
set from='Vera Hill <vera@hill.com'
set realname='Vera Hill'
set postponed="=Drafts"
set record="=Sent"
set spoolfile="imaps://imap.gmail.com/INBOX"
set signature="~/.mutt/signature.private"
basic ~/.mutt/muttrc:
set header_cache=~/.mutt/cache/headers
set message_cachedir=~/.mutt/cache/bodies
set certificate_file=~/.mutt/certificates
set sort='threads'
set sort_aux='last-date-received'
set imap_check_subscribed
auto_view text/html #needs ~/.mailcap and install elinks!
set attribution="* %n <%a> wrote\a ecrit:\n"
set pager_index_lines="15" #split view
# Make sure the inbox updates and bind a key
set timeout=15
set mail_check=60
bind index "i" imap-fetch-mail
#dual boxes specific
macro index <f3> '<sync-mailbox><enter-command>source ~/.mutt/private.account<enter><change-folder>!<enter>'
macro index <f4> '<sync-mailbox><enter-command>source ~/.mutt/work.account<enter><change-folder>!<enter>'
folder-hook 'verahill@gmail.com' 'source ~/.mutt/private.account'
folder-hook 'vera@hill.com' 'source ~/.mutt/work.account'
account-hook imaps://verahill@gmail.com 'set imap_user=verahill@gmail.com imap_pass=correcthorsebatterystaple smtp_pass=correcthorsebatterystaple'
account-hook imaps://vera@hill.com 'set imap_user=vera@hill.com imap_pass=Tr0ub4dor&3 smtp_pass=Tr0ub4dor&3'
source ~/.mutt/private.account # default account
~/.mailcap:
#allows viewing html, but requires that elinks is installed
text/html; elinks %s; nametemplate=%s.html
text/html; elinks -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput
You can do a lot more -- if you want to use an address book (aliases), create a file called ~/.mutt/aliases with each line having an alias of the format:
alias Obama "Barak Obama" <potus@whitehouse.gov>
Add the following to the end of your muttrc:
# Addressbook
set alias_file=~/.mutt/aliases
set sort_alias=alias
set reverse_alias=yes
source $alias_file
If you want to use GPG add this to your muttrc (anywhere) and the ID of your key is C1C2C3C4:
# GPG stuff - autosign
set pgp_decode_command="gpg %?p?--passphrase-fd 0? --no-verbose --batch --output - %f"
set pgp_verify_command="gpg --no-verbose --batch --output - --verify %s %f"
set pgp_decrypt_command="gpg --passphrase-fd 0 --no-verbose --batch --output - %f"
set pgp_sign_command="gpg --no-verbose --batch --output - --passphrase-fd 0 --armor --detach-sign --textmode %?a?-u %a? %f"
set pgp_clearsign_command="gpg --no-verbose --batch --output - --passphrase-fd 0 --armor --textmode --clearsign %?a?-u %a? %f"
set pgp_encrypt_only_command="pgpewrap gpg --batch --quiet --no-verbose --output - --encrypt --textmode --armor --always-trust --encrypt-to 0xC1C2C3C4 -- -r %r -- %f"
set pgp_encrypt_sign_command="pgpewrap gpg --passphrase-fd 0 --batch --quiet --no-verbose --textmode --output - --encrypt --sign %?a?-u %a? --armor --always-trust --encrypt-to 0xC1C2C3C4 -- -r %r -- %f"
set pgp_import_command="gpg --no-verbose --import -v %f"
set pgp_export_command="gpg --no-verbose --export --armor %r"
set pgp_verify_key_command="gpg --no-verbose --batch --fingerprint --check-sigs %r"
set pgp_list_pubring_command="gpg --no-verbose --batch --with-colons --list-keys %r"
set pgp_list_secring_command="gpg --no-verbose --batch --with-colons --list-secret-keys %r"
set pgp_autosign=yes
set pgp_sign_as=0xC1C2C3C4
set pgp_replyencrypt=yes
set pgp_timeout=1800
set pgp_good_sign="^gpg: Good signature from"
If you prefer vim to nano:
set editor="vim -c 'set tw=70 et' '+/^$' "
set edit_headers=yes
A colour-scheme which happens to work with my set-up for guake:
color index green black plain
color normal green black
color status white black
color body green black plain
color header cyan black plain
color quoted blue black
color tree green black
Not sure what this does (something to do with headers) but it's there in my file:
ignore "Authentication-Results:"
ignore "DomainKey-Signature:"
ignore "DKIM-Signature"
hdr_order Date From To Cc
EDIT:
There's no free smtp service from fastmail, so I use the gmail smtp service
Create imapcc.account in ~/.mutt and fill it with
set from=me@imap.cc
set hostname="imap.cc"
unset folder
set folder="imaps://me@imap.cc@messagingengine.com"
set postponed="=Drafts"
set record="=Sent"
set smtp_url="smtps://verahill@gmail.com@smtp.gmail.com"
set spoolfile="imaps://messagingengine.com/INBOX"
set from='Me at gmail <verahill@gmail.com>'
set signature="~/.mutt/signature.private"
and edit ~/.mutt/muttrc to add the following lines:
macro index <f5> '<sync-mailbox><enter-command>source ~/.mutt/imapcc.account<enter><change-folder>!<enter>'
folder-hook 'me@imap.cc' 'source ~/.mutt/imapcc.account'
account-hook imaps://me@imap.cc 'set imap_user=me@imap.cc imap_pass=ashortpassword smtp_pass=correhorsebatterystaple'
