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Configuring Email

Install Neomutt

sudo port -f install neomutt +idn +lmdb +notmuch +ssl

Install offlineimap

sudo port -f install offlineimap

Configure Email

Copy .offlineimaprc to the home directory. Replace the <REDACTED> line in .offlineimaprc with a device password for gmail.

Open up the Keychain Access app, go to System Roots and then Certificates, hit CMD-A to select all, and hit CMD-SHIFT-E to export all certificates into a single .pem file. Place this at the path indicated in .offlineimaprc, which should be ~/ca-certs/certs.pem.

On Linux, you should be able to use something like

sslcacertfile = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

in .offlineimaprc.

Run offlineimap -o to fetch email for the first time. Will probably take a while. If you have an offline copy of your email, it will be much quicker to rsync that whole thing and then go from there with offlineimap.

Put offlineimap in a cron script to periodically restart it in case it crashes. It acts as a daemon, so it will just quit immediately if an instance is running already. I have read old testimony claiming that offlineimap tends to hang, but in my experience, it just crashes when it messes up. I will update as necessary if the hanging problem rears its ugly head.

Some nice utils

  • pdftotext, via poppler package on brew
  • atool (for archives)
  • w3m
  • elinks

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