Using Secure Mutt Connections with IMAPS

Posted by mweber on Feb 1, 2009 3:31 AM EDT
PostfixMail.com; By Mike Weber
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Mutt is a text based email client that is both powerful and has a lot of features,some of which you will not find in other mail clients. One problem that you will see with many mail clients is that they do not work easily with IMAPS, or secure IMAP. Mutt integrates easily with IMAPS and is easy to set up.

On an Ubuntu 8.10 desktop, you will want to install both mutt and sSMTP. Once you have sSMTP and mutt installed you can test your email by creating two users and sending mail from one at the command line to the other user. Here mail is sent to the user tom on the local machine.

echo “Test” | mutt -s Hello tom

The -s is the option that creates the Subject line.

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