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You can use mutt with Exchange servers and Gmail servers
by totony 11y ago
You can use mutt with Exchange servers and Gmail servers
- hibbelig 11y agoMutt and Exchange? Bliss! Would you happen to have a doc link handy?
- kylek 11y agoI'm not sure about builtin support but there is always davmail (http://davmail.sourceforge.net/ http://davmail.sourceforge.net/) for exchange
- mschuster91 11y agoIIRC Exchange does offer IMAP and SMTP...
- totony 11y agoExchange server sometimes choose to not provide smtp which is a pain. Their IMAP support is sometimes lacking too (i.e. imap-mail.outlook.com times out alot).
- stephengillie 11y agoExchange has supported IMAP, MAPI, POP, and SMTP for at least a decade. In large implementations (such as Exchange Online in Office365) they may not support some of those services. IMAP can be very resource intensive and bog down a CAS or storage server.
- totony 11y agoMutt doesn't support retrieving mail very well, but you can use sync programs (getmail, offlineimap, isync, exchange2mbox) to create local mailboxes and make mutt use the local mailbox directory instead. you can send email using external programs (local smtp server and openxchange for exchange). Mutt is not a traditional mail client, it is more of a glue between multiple programs so you can have one interface for all of your emails need.
- kragen 11y agoIf Mutt is not a traditional mail client, then what is? heirloom-mailx? I read my mail with less. That's a nontraditional mail client.
- mikekchar 11y agoWhen I first started in the industry my colleagues told me that I should be using the read-mail program. It has a mode that allows you to use regexps to read your mail really fast. I was told that the normal way to run read-mail with the "really fast" mode was: rm -rf * Disclaimer: For the Unix impaired, this is an "expert only" utility. I am not responsible for the loss of all the files in your home directory should you attempt to use it.
- dredmorbius 11y agoDo NOT suggest people try a command which will recursively remove all files ignoring file permissions. Most people will be aware of the hazard. Those who aren't will suffer irreparable harm.
- keithpeter 11y ago"I read my mail with less." How? Sounds like you just grep your way through the mailbox?
- kragen 11y agoYes.
- Steltek 11y agoBe careful with which Exchange servers you try offlineimap with. There was a severely bad interaction in Exchange with how offlineimap operates. Exchange used a global database with a small limit (I want to say 2^16) for unique message headers. Offlineimap injected unique headers for synchronization purposes. This quickly led to resource exhaustion and essentially blocked the server.
- monochromatic 11y agoDo you wind up with plaintext emails that look gross when opened in Outlook?
- insertnickname 11y agoIt is HTML emails that are gross, not plain text.
- qw 11y agoNot necessarily for the Outlook users. The default setting of my Outlook was to ignore double line breaks and (paragraphs), which makes plain text mails less readable.
- smcl 11y agoSame for me, I cannot think of the use case for this - maybe it was introduced in the embrace/extend/extinguish era to nudge people into using Rich Text format emails?
- smcl 11y agoSame for me, I cannot think of the use case for this - maybe it was introduced in the embrace/extend/extinguish era to nudge people into using Rich Text format emails?
- insertnickname 11y agoIt is Outlook that is gross.
- monochromatic 11y agoUnfortunately, sometimes in the real world we don't all get to always choose our own tools.
- insertnickname 11y ago
- asdfkajh2 11y agoI think the idea is that a security professional should use, on a regular basis, multiple email clients. It's a funny trick of the english language that when we say someone uses an email client, it comes across as an exclusive use. We need an explicit patch.