= Introduction =
I get a "lot" of email. I am subscribed to LKML that in itself generates a few hundred a day. With that kind of email a typical GUI-based email client like Thunderbird or Evolution are just not good enough for me. Pointing and clicking takes too much time.

I use the following tools to handle email:

 * offlineimap - to fetch mail from the sever to my local machine
 * mutt - to read and write mail
 * msmtp - to transmit mail to the mail server
 * imapfilter - for server-side IMAP filtering

I'll try to describe the configuration of each of them here.

= Software Tools =
== offlineimap ==
== mutt ==
== msmtp ==
Here is my .msmtprc that works with Gmail. (If you use it, please remember to change ''user'' and ''password'' values)

{{{
# Set default values for all following accounts.
defaults
logfile ~/Mail/.msmtp.log

# Verdurent
account verdurent
protocol smtp
host smtp.gmail.com
user email@domain.com
password XXXXXXXXXXXX
port 587
auth on
tls on
tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
#tls_trust_file ~/.certs/ThawtePremiumServerCA_b64.txt
syslog LOG_MAIL 

# Personal
account personal
protocol smtp
host smtp.gmail.com
user email@gmail.com
password XXXXXXXXXX
port 587
auth on
tls on
tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
#tls_trust_file ~/.certs/ThawtePremiumServerCA_b64.txt
syslog LOG_MAIL 

# Set a default account
account default : verdurent
}}}

== imapfilter ==