#neomutt — Public Fediverse posts

So, after years of running Ubuntu as my daily driver, I thought I'd give CachyOS a try before Ubuntu's next LTS release in April. I have to say CachyOS+Gnome desktop is lightning fast! I've much to do but having removed FireFox, changed the default fish shell to zsh, installed & set up NeoMutt, PyRadio & the re-implimentation of 'TUI' (command line app for Mastodon) with 'tooi' (@ihabunek which is awesome!!), things are looking good so far! #cachyos #archlinux #neomutt #tooi #zsh

Any #Mutt / #NeoMutt users here ?
I'd like to have my reply to mails copied not only in my Sent folder, but also in my Inbox (which is sorted by thread).
Any idea ? I've tries things such as
reply-hook . '+INBOX'
But nothing works…
Thanks !

Any #Mutt / #NeoMutt users here ?
I'd like to have my reply to mails copied not only in my Sent folder, but also in my Inbox (which is sorted by thread).
Any idea ? I've tries things such as
reply-hook . '+INBOX'
But nothing works…
Thanks !

Any #Mutt / #NeoMutt users here ?
I'd like to have my reply to mails copied not only in my Sent folder, but also in my Inbox (which is sorted by thread).
Any idea ? I've tries things such as
reply-hook . '+INBOX'
But nothing works…
Thanks !

Hey #mutt or #neomutt users - What are you using in local bsd mboxes for searching/grepping?

I was using #mairix for 15 years but with debian trixie mairix is not available anymore, and mairix has issues with >2GB folders (It uses 32 bit ptr in its index)

I am having 30+ years in BSD Mboxes summing up to 50GByte+ gzipped compressed bsd mboxes - about 5700 MBoxes (sent/received per month etc)

So, I love #Thunderbird, but it bogs down my poor old #Linux laptop. I thought I would try a few terminal email clients. Here is how it went:

* #Alpine (new Pine): Connecting to Gmail was hard - even when I had set up application-specific passwords for 2FA. Had to manually edit SMTP settings in .pinerc

* #NeoMutt (new Mutt): required serious manual config to get the sidebar showing and even then CTRL-O would not switch email folders for me

* #aerc: A joy. Sidebar by default. Working key commands. Nice colon menu for commands. Was able to set up multiple gmail accounts with application-specific passwords.

#html2text (the Python tool, https://alir3z4.github.io/html2text, in Debian as python3-html2text which then provides a "html2markdown" binary) converts HTML into Markdown and (with the right CLI options) does a pretty good job, too.

From there, you can use a good Markdown renderer like lowdown to get an awesome experience – _if_ your terminal supports OSC 8 hyperlinks.

Like, look at this. It still has a few quirks, but for an HTML email in the terminal? It's fucking beautiful.

But no OSC 8 in #NeoMutt. 😔

Trying out #aerc and I want to like it (it has some fancy feature like embedded terminal etc) but there are some weird behaviours that don’t seem quite right. Sorting the way I want seems impossible (whether I do `sort date` or `sort -r date` it always appears to be reverse-chronological, not chronological; `sort from -r date`seems close to what I want but is inexplicable); and threads get reorganised on every delete so if I read through a thread and delete messages as I go, it might suddenly decide that the next message is actually one from a different thread.

I used #mutt back in the day and I see #neomutt has imap support now, so I’ll be giving that a try next.

Thinking of email using #Neomutt, #AgeEncryption , and #Minisign

Setup a signed webpage with my public keys & explaining how to decrypt files and how verify signatures

Add a link to this webpage to my usual email signature text.

By default an email is an unencrypted, unsigned postcard ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But when used to send important private data, sign and/or encrypt the files & send them as attachment to a cover letter explaining how to decrypt and verify signatures & a link to webpage above

Thinking of email using #Neomutt, #AgeEncryption , and #Minisign

Setup a signed webpage with my public keys & explaining how to decrypt files and how verify signatures

Add a link to this webpage to my usual email signature text.

By default an email is an unencrypted, unsigned postcard ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But when used to send important private data, sign and/or encrypt the files & send them as attachment to a cover letter explaining how to decrypt and verify signatures & a link to webpage above

I wrote a new blog post about how to setup #neomutt #email with Office 365, using #mbsync #msmtp and #notmuch, along with how to make it work with multiple accounts:

https://cosroe.com/2025/04/neomutt-notmuch-mbsync.html

I came across something recently that basically stressed the importance of understanding the tools you use on a daily basis to get the most out of them. It suggested that you need to get familiar with the primary sources of docs as well and not just distilled summaries that hold your hand and give you a generic solution to one particular problem your trying to solve. With that in mind, my reading list lately has been the official docs for #neomutt, #irssi, #i3wm, #opnsense, #tmux. I think this is more important than ever when it's so easy to use an #llm to search for information.

#learning #readthedocs

Is there any way to use #mbsync with the Cyrus SASL plugin, but restrict that plugin to only one mail account? Installing that plugin prevents 3 of my 4 email accounts from syncing, but the fourth requires OAUTH2 to be able to connect.

#isync #neomutt

Today I managed to install and configure
- my contacts (vdirsyncer + khard, formerly khal)
- my calendar (calcurse + calcurse-caldav. Might switch to vdirsyncer)
- my mail (offlineimap + neomutt)
- my todo txt (todo.sh)

Not happy with saving credentials in plain text :-(

But I can look into Lua (conky and awesome WM widgets) next!

#vdirsyncer #khard #khal #calcurse #offlineimap #neomutt #todotxt

My current setup:
OS: #archlinux with #swaywm
Music: #supercollider #scnvim #audacity
Video: #kdenlive
Terminal emulator: #termite
Editor: #neovim
Mail: #isync #notmuch #neomutt
Contacts: #khard
Calendar: #khal
Office: #libreoffice
System upgrade: #topgrade