My mutt config

Features

• Muti-account IMAP config
• Sidebar with subscribed folders
• PGP and SMIME support
• Passwords managed by pass https://passwordstore.org/
• Notifications through notify-send (libnotify), disable if you're on windows or OSX (or use something else)
• Dracula color scheme

Prerequisites

• Neomutt
• pass https://paswordstore.org
• gpg (for PGP support)
• openssl (for S/MIME)
• w3m or lynx (HTML mail support)

Installation

Make sure you have the prerequisites installed and configured. Also take a look in mailcap to change whatever you need for previewing (like choosing between lynx or w3m). More importantly, fork this repo. I will ignore pull requests for obvious reasons :)

Clone this repository into ~/config/mutt. Then edit whatever you want in accounts/account.* so it matches up with your situation. Be sure to browse through the configuration to tweak anything you like. Also, make sure you fix the macros in the muttrc so your f1/f2 keys will trigger the correct configuration.

TIP: make sure you create the header/body cache folders meantion in the account.* files to speed IMAP up quite a bit.

Keybinds (that might differ fom default)

Sidebar

• Ctrl-j/k Move to previous/next mailbox
• Ctrl-p/n Move to previous/next mailbox with unread mail
• Ctrl-o Open selected mailbox
• Shift-B Toggle sidebar

Shortcuts to mailboxes (no chords, just press keys after each other)

• gi Jump to INBOX

• ga Jump to Archive

• gj Jump to Junk-folder

• gt Jump to Trash

• Shift-Mi Move to INBOX

• Shift-Ma Move to Archive

• Shift-Mj Move to Junk-folder

• Shift-Mt Move to Trash

• Shift-Ci Copy to INBOX

• Shift-Ca Copy to Archive

• Shift-Cj Copy to Junk-folder

• Shift-Ct Copy to Trash

Index/Pager

• j/k Previous/Next line
• Shift-j/k Previous/Next mail in mailbox
• gg First entry in mailbox
• Shift-g Last entry in mailbox
• h Go to parent folder
• H See raw message (in vim)
• R Reply to group
• Ctrl-R Mark all messages as read
• a Add sender adress to adressbook
• Ctrl-b Grab all links from the message and do something with them

Account switching

• <F1> Personal mailbox (see muttrc)
• <F2> Work mailbox (see muttrc)

Troubleshooting

Q: neomutt complains about smtp_user not being a valid variable.

A: Your neomutt is probably old. Substitute your username in the smtp_url for the $smtp_user. Or update neomutt.

Q: neomutt complains about directories (e.g. hcache) not existing

A: Create them.

Q: neomutt says it can't find notify-send

A: Install it. The package is usually called libnotify or libnotify-bin. This varies per OS and distribution. For Windows/OSX users, use something else or disable the line mentioning libnotify-bin in the config (look for set_new_mail_command in muttrc)