Mail and mutt on sdf.org
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There are  several tutorials  about mail  on sdf.org,  and information
provided by  them are  clearly understandable after  you are  got know
everything what they  are about. Because I didn't  found any resources
on Gophersphere about it I'm putting this tutorial here.

1. After you logged to the sdf.org by SSH you can check your e-mail by
several programs,  which are installed  on the sdf.org, and  which are
mentioned in the FAQ. I'd like to  use mutt, so I entered command like
below from the shell:

$ mutt

and I saw my e-mails.

2. You could  also use the web-mail client, which  is mentioned in the
FAQ. I'd like  to use it so  I visited /mx.sdf.org/ in  my web browser
and I saw my e-mail.

3. After that  I saw some directories in my  home directory, they were
called:  ~/mail, and  ~/Mail, and  there were  also some  files inside
them. So  how mutt, and web-mail  app are knowing how  to read e-mail,
and why there are so many directories and files?

The most important is the /spool file/ which is located in variable as
below:

$ echo $MAIL

Above clients are  reading e-mail from that single  location. But they
are saving e-mail  in different directories, so we should  set up them
to save e-mail in one locations.

4. Web-mail client is using  ~/mail directory and files: INBOX.Drafts,
INBOX.Sent, INBOX.Trash so I've set up mutt to use them by configuring
my ~/.muttrc.

set folder = "~/mail"
set record="$HOME/mail/INBOX.Sent"
set postponed="$HOME/mail/INBOX.Drafts"

5. After  that we are seeing  the same e-mail in  the web-mail client,
and in  the mutt. We can  change a folder  by pressing c in  mutt, and
save/change location of an e-mail by pressing s.


~ [e-mail configuration]
  http://sdf.org/?tutorials/e-mail-basics

~ [about folders]
  https://sdf.org/?faq?EMAIL?15

~ [about web-mail]
  https://sdf.org/?faq?EMAIL?13

~ [about mutt folders configuration]
  http://mutt.postle.net/storage/index.html

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