On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 09:48:52PM -0800, Claudio Chinicz wrote: > Can you provide more details on mutt and how to implement its use with > Qubes (and TB I suppose)?
Hi Claudio, modern email clients like Thunderbird combine serveral functions into one software package: - mail user agent (MUA) - mail transfer agent (MTA) speaks SMTP - mail retrieval agent (MRA) speaks POP or IMAP Actually, originally mail was nothing more than mailfiles transported from one machine to another via SMTP and stored in the local file system. That was at a time where all machines were stationary and constantly connected. Later we then had dedicated SMTP and POP/IMAP servers that would do the sending and receiving for you so your local machine wouldn't have to deal with retries (SMTP) and incoming mail would be stored somewhere until your machine came online. Those servers are called "smart hosts". - mutt is a MUA - postfix is a MTA - fetchmail is a MRA Here are some helpful pages: - https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/mutt - https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/postfix - https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/fetchmail But very little in this setup is Qubes specific, so there is a multitude of information when you search for mutt, postfix and fetchmail. In any case it is a replacement for Thunderbird/Enigmail (mutt works with GnuPG) and it's all happening in the terminal ... so no GUI. This is why I wrote it's "not a solution for the masses". Cheers, /Sven -- public key: https://www.svensemmler.org/0x8F541FB6.asc fingerprint: D7CA F2DB 658D 89BC 08D6 A7AA DA6E 167B 8F54 1FB6 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20200212171921.GA971%40app-email-private.
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