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Getting your mail:

If you use IMAP, your mail never gets downloaded. There are lots of advantages to this method. Use something like the following in your .muttrc
mailboxes imap://myfirstisp.com
set folder="imap://myfirstisp.com/INBOX"  
set imap_user="myusername" #your IMAP user name or login
set imap_pass="password" #your IMAP password

If you are uncomfortable about having your IMAP password stored in plain text, set the permissions for .muttrc using the ``chmod'' command so only you can read and write to the file, no one else. In this same section of your .muttrc, show mutt where to find your IMAP inbox. This is sometimes not apparent, even when you've specified where to find your mail.

set spoolfile="imap://myfirstisp.com"



Randall Wood 2009-12-02