My Ubuntu Experience: Email
January 1, 2007 – 12:36 | LAMP, UbuntuOddly, in this age of GUI, I’m seriously thinking about using mutt to handle emails. I tried both Evolution and Thunderbird. Neither turned out satisfactory at handling the multiple IMAP accounts I have. The Linux version of Thunderbird is particularly slow - compared to the Windows version.
Offlineimap works surprisingly fast. Now I can use mutt to view all of my IMAP accounts without having to switch back and forth.
This here talks about how to set up postfix to relay to my ISP’s SMTP server.
One thing bothered me for a couple of days was all the emails sent through mutt, replayed by postfix to my ISP, had ‘jingxue@my-internal-host-name‘ in the Return-Path header, which makes no sense on the Internet. I finally figured out setting ‘use_envelope_from’ would fix it.
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2 Responses to “My Ubuntu Experience: Email”
If you’re really feeling adventurous, try GNUS (if you can stomach working with elisp and emacs)
By Ian Green on Jan 21, 2007
No, sir, I can stomach vim - and enjoy it actually - but not emacs.
By Jing Xue on Jan 22, 2007