# mutt-wizard https://muttwizard.com/ Get this great stuff without effort: - A full-featured and autoconfigured email client on the terminal with neomutt - Mail stored offline enabling the ability to: * view and write emails while you're away from the internet * make backups - Provides a `mailsync` script that can be scheduled to run as often as you like, which downloads/syncs mail and optionally notifies you when new mail has arrived. Specifically, this wizard: - Determines your email server's IMAP and SMTP servers and ports - Creates dotfiles for `neomutt`, `isync`, and `msmtp` appropriate for your email address - Encrypts and locally stores your password for easy remote access, accessible only by your GPG key - Handles as many as nine separate email accounts automatically - Auto-creates bindings to switch between accounts or between mailboxes - Provides sensible defaults and an attractive appearance for the neomutt email client - If mutt-wizard doesn't know your server's IMAP/SMTP info by default, it will prompt you for them and will put them in all the right places. ## Install #### Dependencies - `neomutt` - the email client. (If you are using Gentoo GNU/Linux, you will need the `sasl` use flag to be enabled) - `curl` - tests connections (required at install). - `isync` - downloads and syncs the mail (required if storing IMAP mail locally). - `msmtp` - sends the email. - `pass` - safely encrypts passwords (required at install). - `ca-certificates` - required for SSL. Probably installed already. - `goimapnotify` - required for push notifications. [Check here for reference](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Isync#With_imapnotify). **Note**: There's a chance of errors if you use a slow-release distro like Ubuntu, Debian, or Mint. If you get errors in `neomutt`, install the most recent version manually or manually remove the offending lines in the config in `/usr/share/mutt-wizard/mutt-wizard.muttrc`. ```bash git clone https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard cd mutt-wizard sudo make install ``` A user of Arch-based distros can also install the current mutt-wizard release from the AUR as [mutt-wizard](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mutt-wizard/), or the Github master branch, [mutt-wizard-git](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mutt-wizard-git/). ### Optional Dependencies - `pam-gnupg` - Automatically logs you into your GPG key on login so you will never need to input your password once logged on to your system. Check the repo and directions out [here](https://github.com/cruegge/pam-gnupg). - `lynx` - view HTML email in neomutt. - `notmuch` - index and search mail. Install it and run `notmuch setup`, tell it that your mail is in `~/.local/share/mail/` (although `mw` will do this automatically if you haven't set notmuch up before). You can run it in mutt with ctrl-f. Run `notmuch new` to process new mail. - `abook` - a terminal-based address book. Pressing tab while typing an address to send mail to will suggest contacts that are in your abook. - `urlview` - outputs urls in mail to browser. - `cronie` - (or any other major cronjob manager) to set up automatic mail syncing. - `mpop` - If you want to use POP protocol instead of IMAP. ## Usage The mutt-wizard runs via the command `mw`. Once setup is complete, you'll use `neomutt` to access your mail. - `mw -a you@email.com` -- add a new email account - `mw -l` -- list existing accounts - `mw -d` -- choose an account to delete - `mw -D your@email.com` -- delete account settings without confirmation - `mw -t 30` -- toggle automatic mailsync to every 30 minutes - `mw -T` -- toggle mailsync without specifying minutes (default is 10) - `mw -r` -- reorder account shortcut numbers - `pass edit mw-your@email.com` -- revise an account's password - `mailsync` -- sync all configured email accounts. Also gives notifications of new mail and indexes new mail with notmuch silently. - `mailsync your@email.com` -- sync a particular (or several) email account(s). ### Options usable when adding an account #### Providing arguments - `-u` -- Give an account username if different from the email address. - `-n` -- A real name to be used by the account. Put in quotations if multiple words. - `-i` -- IMAP server address - `-I` -- IMAP server port (otherwise assumed to be 993) - `-s` -- SMTP server address - `-S` -- SMTP server port (otherwise assumed to be 465) - `-m` -- Maximum number of emails to be kept offline. No maximum is default functionality. - `-x` -- Account password. You will be prompted for it otherwise. #### General Settings - `-f` -- Assume mailbox names and force account configuration without connecting online at all. - `-o` -- Configure mutt for an account, but do not keep mail offline. - `-p` -- Use POP protocol instead of IMAP (requires `mpop` installed). - `mailsync` gives visual messages of new mail by default. Or, set `MAILSYNC_MUTE=1` as an environmental variable if you prefer not having them. ## Neomutt user interface To give you an example of the interface, here's an idea: - m - send mail (uses your default `$EDITOR` to write) - j/k and d/u - vim-like bindings to go down and up (or d/u to go down/up a page). - l - open mail, or attachment page or attachment - h - the opposite of l - r/R - reply/reply all to highlighted mail - s - save selected mail or selected attachment - gs,gi,ga,gd,gS - Press g followed by another letter to change mailbox: sent, inbox, archive, drafts, Spam, etc. - M and C - For Move and Copy: follow them with one of the mailbox letters above, i.e. MS means "move to Spam". - i# - Press i followed by a number 1-9 to go to a different account. If you add 9 accounts via mutt-wizard, they will each be assigned a number. - a to add address/person to abook and Tab while typing address to complete one from abook. - ? - see all keyboard shortcuts - ctrl-j/ctrl-k - move up and down in sidebar, ctrl-o opens mailbox. - ctrl-b - open a menu to select a URL you want to open in your browser. - p - encrypt/sign your message (in compose view, before sending the email). ## Enable push notifications per mail **Note**: Replace the `fulladdrs` with your actual email address. You have to do this for each new mail you want to setup instant notifications. ```bash systemctl enable --user goimapnotify@fulladdrs.service ``` ## Additional functionality - `pam-gnupg` - Automatically logs you into your GPG key on login, so you will never need to input your password once logged on to your system. Check the repo and directions out [here](https://github.com/cruegge/pam-gnupg). - `lynx` - View HTML email in neomutt. - `notmuch` - Index and search mail. Install it and run `notmuch setup`, tell it that your mail is in `~/.local/share/mail/` (although `mw` will do this automatically if you haven't set notmuch up before). You can run it in mutt with ctrl-f. Run `notmuch new` to process new mail. - `abook` - A terminal-based address book. Pressing tab while typing an address to send mail to will suggest contacts that are in your abook. - `urlview` - Outputs URLs in an email to your browser. ## New stuff and improvements since the original release - `mw` is now scriptable with command-line options and can run successfully without any interaction, making it possible to deploy in a script. - `isync`/`mbsync` has replaced `offlineimap` as the backend. Offlineimap was error-prone, bloated, used obsolete Python 2 modules, and required separate steps to install the system. - `mw` is now an installed program instead of just a script needed to be kept in your mutt folder. - `dialog` is no longer used and the interface is simply text commands. - More autogenerated shortcuts that allow quickly moving and copying mail between boxes. - More elegant attachment handling. Image/video/pdf attachments without relying on the neomutt instance. - abook integration by default. - The messy template files and other directories have been moved or removed, leaving a clean config folder. - msmtp configs moved to `~/.config/` and mail default location moved to `~/.local/share/mail/`, reducing mess in `~`. - `pass` is used as a password manager instead of separately saving passwords. - Script is POSIX sh compliant. - Error handling for the many people who don't read or follow directions. Fewer errors generally. - Addition of a manual `man mw` - Now handles POP protocol via `mpop` for those who prefer it (add an account with the `-p` option). POP configs are still generated automatically. ## Help the Project! - Try mutt-wizard out on weird machines and weird email addresses and report any errors. - Open a PR to add new server information into `domains.csv` so their users can more easily use mutt-wizard. - If nothing else, donate: - XMR: `8AzeWXhJvYJ1VeENHcNXCR1dLMgDALreZ1BdooZVjRKndv6myr3t1ue6C4ML2an5fWSpcP1sTDA9nKUMevkukDXG6chRjNv` - BTC: `bc1qacqfp36ffv9mafechmvk8f6r8qy4tual6rcm9p` ## Details for Tinkerers - The critical `mutt`/`neomutt` files are in `~/.config/mutt/`. - Put whatever global settings you want in `muttrc`. mutt-wizard will add some lines to this file, which you shouldn't remove unless you know what you're doing, but you can move them up/down over your config lines if you need to. If you get binding conflict errors in mutt, you might need to do this. - Each of the accounts that mutt-wizard generates will have custom settings set in a separate file in `accounts/`. You can edit these freely if you want to tinker with settings specific to an account. - In `/usr/share/mutt-wizard` are several global config files, including `mutt-wizard`'s default settings. You can override this in your `muttrc` if you wish. ## Watch out for these things - Gmail accounts need to create an [App Password](https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en) to use with "less secure" applications. This password is single-use (i.e. for setup) and will be stored and encrypted locally. Enabling third-party applications requires turning off two-factor authentication and this will circumvent that. You might also need to manually "Enable IMAP" in the settings. - If you have a university email or enterprise-hosted email for work, there might be other hurdles or two-factor authentication you have to jump through. Some, for example, will want you to create a separate IMAP password, etc. - `isync` is not fully UTF-8 compatible, so non-Latin characters may be garbled (although sync should succeed). `mw` will also not auto-create mailbox shortcuts since it is looking for English mailbox names. I strongly recommend you to set your email language to English on your mail server to avoid these problems. ## License mutt-wizard is free/libre software. This program is released under the GPLv3 license, which you can find in the file [LICENSE](LICENSE).