Using Mutt on Socrates after the Email Migration:

Mutt is currently installed and available for use on Socrates. These instructions show how to use Mutt after the migration to access your

@socrates.berkeley.edu or @berkeley.edu email accounts. Mutt is also a recommended alternative for Socrates users who currently use elm, mail or mailx.

I. If you want to use mutt to use @Socrates.berkeley.edu email after the migration:

Make sure your .muttrc (mutt’s configuration file) has the following:

my_hdr From: Your Name <username@socrates.berkeley.edu>

my_hdr Reply-To: Your Name <username@socrates.berkeley.edu>

set realname='Your Name'

set spoolfile="imaps://calmail.berkeley.edu/INBOX"

set folder="imaps://calmail.berkeley.edu/"

set certificate_file="~/.mutt/certificates"

set imap_user=username@socrates

set ssl_starttls=yes

Note: specifying the @socrates part of the imap_user variable is critical,

otherwise mutt will think you are trying to access your @berkeley.edu inbox.

II. If you want to user mutt to use @berkeley.edu email now or after the

migration:

Make sure your .muttrc has the following:

my_hdr From: Your Name <username@berkeley.edu>

my_hdr Reply-To: Your Name <username@berkeley.edu>

set realname='Your Name'

set spoolfile="imaps://calmail.berkeley.edu/INBOX"

set folder="imaps://calmail.berkeley.edu/"

set certificate_file="~/.mutt/certificates"

set imap_user=username

set ssl_starttls=yes

Notes:

-Overall Mutt is a very powerful and handy mail client. Detailed information

about all of Mutt's features are available via the man page.

-The official Mutt website is http://www.mutt.org. In addition to a web-version

of the manpage: http://www.mutt.org/doc/man_page.html. There is also a FAQ, and

a very handy manual: http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual.txt.

-Mutt cannot use a remote SMTP server, it needs a local SMTP server to connect

to in order to send email. Our SMTP server will still be listening on the localhost

after migration so this should not be a problem for our users.

-Mutt is more limited than Pine in that one cannot view multiple folder collections, or log into more than one email account at a time. If you want to

view email folders stored in your Socrates home directory, you should unset

the value set folder.

Address Books:

We have some address book conversion tools for users who wish to switch to

Mutt:

/usr/local/bin/elm2mutt converts elm aliases to mutt aliases.

/usr/local/bin/brk2mutt converts mail and mailx aliases to mutt aliases.