[NCLUG] email setup with mutt

Chad Perrin perrin at apotheon.com
Mon Sep 11 04:07:02 MDT 2006


I'm interested in getting some input into how to set up email on a
Debian system.  The conditions are:

  Postfix MTA
  mutt MUA
  ISP-provided webserver
  POP3 account

The requirements are:

  multiple email accounts received
  multiple email accounts sending
  access all accounts via one standard shell user account

The preferences are:

  access all accounts via one instance of mutt

More conditions, requirements, and preferences may occur to me later,
but that's what comes to mind right now.  I'd like to solicit ideas for
how best to handle this, with pros and cons for alternate approaches.
This seems to be a badly underdocumented collection of requirements for
implementation with console-based mail user agents, which I find mildly
annoying.  Please give me any information you may have about what
approaches might be taken, including informed opinions about the
benefits and detriments of various approaches.

-- 
CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
Amazon.com interview candidate: "When C++ is your
hammer, everything starts to look like your thumb."



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