Neomutt Cheatsheet

Introduction Because E-Mail is hard and no mail client is perfect I decided to setup neomutt again after more than five years. Now I am able to view my mails via ssh command line. Neomutt will certainly not be my go to client, but anyway here is my basic config. Cheatsheet set imap_user="john.doe@mailbox.org" set imap_pass="password" set imap_authenticators=LOGIN set imap_idle=yes set header_cache=/home/john/.cache/neomutt/headers set message_cachedir=/home/john/.cache/neomutt/bodies set folder=imaps://imap.mailbox.org:993 set spoolfile=+INBOX set record="+Sent" set postponed="+Drafts" set mail_check=90 set timeout=15 color progress white blue set use_threads=threads sort=reverse-date sort_aux=last-date-received set sleep_time=0 # be faster set beep=no # no beep sound set editor="nvim" auto_view text/html set sidebar_visible set sidebar_format="%B%?F? [%F]?%* %?N?%N/?%S" set mail_check_stats mailboxes =INBOX =Sent =Drafts =Junk =Trash bind attach,index,pager \CD next-page bind attach,index,pager \CU previous-page bind pager g top bind pager G bottom bind attach,index g first-entry bind attach,index G last-entry bind index,pager "," imap-fetch-mail bind index,pager \CP sidebar-prev # Ctrl-n to select next folder bind index,pager \CN sidebar-next # Ctrl-p to select previous folder bind index,pager \CI sidebar-open # Ctrl-i to open selected folder bind index,pager \CB sidebar-toggle-visible # Ctrl-b to toggle visibility of the sidebar set realname="John Doe" set from="john.doe@mailbox.org" set smtp_url="smtps://john.doe@mailbox.org@smtp.mailbox.org:465" set smtp_pass="password" set smtp_authenticators=LOGIN set query_command="abook --mutt-query '%s'" bind editor <Tab> complete-query macro index,pager a "<pipe-message>abook --add-email-quiet<return>" "Add this sender to abook" ignore * unignore from date subject to cc unignore organization organisation x-mailer: x-newsreader: x-mailing-list: unignore posted-to: Put this file in /home/john/.config/neomutt/neomuttrc. ...

March 24, 2025 · 2 min · towa7bc

Claws Mail on OpenBSD

Introduction With the widely discussed issues of Mozilla now scanning and using your personal data, I decided to get rid of the two programs I used from this company: firefox and thunderbird. Firefox –> ungoogled-chromium and netsurf For the browser I have a lot of choices in the OpenBSD ports tree. There are chrome based programs like chrome, chromium, iridium and ungoogled-chromium. And I also found netsurf which I quite like. It is very fast. Of course it has its shortcomings with complex websites such as youtube. ...

March 23, 2025 · 3 min · towa7bc