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Commit 91633a6d authored by Eddie Kovsky's avatar Eddie Kovsky Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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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: default avatarEddie Kovsky <ewk@edkovsky.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDarren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 803cfe26

Documentation/email-clients.txt

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@@ -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



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