Pine and Mutt Setup Instructions for the New IMAP Accounts

Problem:

What settings do I need to change in Pine or Mutt to enable it to access my new IMAP account?

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Solution:

This article assumes the user is already familiar with Pine or Mutt and knows how to change the settings.

Pine

For Pine users, we have found that setting the following options in .pinerc works well. This will cause Pine to access mail via IMAP from the new server cluster. Please note that this will work best from Castle. Feel free to contact us with any questions about using Pine on other hosts.

user-domain=isye.gatech.edu

smtp-server=mail.isye.gatech.edu

inbox-path={imap.isye.gatech.edu}INBOX

default-fcc=Sent

feature-list=enable-incoming-folders

folder-collections="IMAP Server" {imap.isye.gatech.edu}INBOX.[]

rsh-open-timeout=0

Mutt

The following options should be set to enable Mutt to access mail via IMAP. Please note that you must be using a version of Mutt which has been compiled using the proper options. The version on Castle is one such. Feel free to contact us with any questions about using Mutt on other hosts.

set folder=imaps://imap.isye.gatech.edu/INBOX

set spoolfile=imaps://imap.isye.gatech.edu/INBOX

set hostname=isye.gatech.edu

set use_domain

set imap_user=allen