# OT: a very simple .vimrc example to use with my gmail accoun **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 22, 2006, 11:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-a-very-simple-vimrc-example-to-use-with-my-gmail-accoun/55689 "2006-03-22T23:45:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dawntayl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@dawntayl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dawntayl)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 11:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-a-very-simple-vimrc-example-to-use-with-my-gmail-accoun/55689/1 "2006-03-22T23:45:55Z")
Hi guys, is there a very very simple .vimrc example to use with my gmail account? i couldn’t find it from uncle google. Please help, my thunderbird is becoming so slow with hundreds of thousands of email… i don’t want to use it anymore, i want to use mutt. i’m using Mac OS X 10.4.5 (Tiger) and mutt (DarwinPort) Thank you very much for your help and sorry for this OT. ps. thanks for your login suggestion Ezra… worked like a charm. cheers, Dawn Taylor dawntayl (at) gmail (dot) com ---
**Author:** ![dawntayl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@dawntayl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dawntayl)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 12:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-a-very-simple-vimrc-example-to-use-with-my-gmail-accoun/55689/2 "2006-03-23T00:21:17Z")
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**Author:** ![dawntayl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@dawntayl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dawntayl)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 11:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-a-very-simple-vimrc-example-to-use-with-my-gmail-accoun/55689/3 "2006-03-23T11:01:25Z")
On 3/23/06, Ben B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Attached is my .vimrc. It’s a little more complex but it certainly > gets the job done. Some of the options up top can probably be removed, > but I’m not 100% sure what they all do (most of this config came from a > friend and was years ago). > > If you don’t have it already, install par (I think you can get it from > DarwinPorts), then with my config you can hit ^^ and it’ll reformat > whichever paragraph is under the cursor. Very handy! I used it just > now 🙂 thanks, now, is there a very, very simple way to “suck” my (removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid) gmail pop3 into my mutt? is it the .muttrc only or do i have to configure anything else? my i wonder why there’s no friendly video to use mutt for mac users… TIA. – Dawn Taylor dawntayl (at) gmail (dot) com ---
**Author:** ![dawntayl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@dawntayl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dawntayl)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-a-very-simple-vimrc-example-to-use-with-my-gmail-accoun/55689/4 "2006-03-23T20:14:51Z")
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006, Dawn Taylor wrote: > thanks, now, is there a very, very simple way to “suck” my > (removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid) gmail pop3 into my mutt? is it the .muttrc only > or do i have to configure anything else? my i wonder why there’s no > friendly video to use mutt for mac users… > TIA. … mutt’s not really a simple, friendly thing 🙂 I’ve never used mutt with pop3. I use getmail to fetch my IMAP mail into local Maildir, where I read it with mutt. I have no idea what the state of POP3 support in mutt is. getmail supports it 🙂 Or fetchmail or whatever. Why mutt and not Mail.app, for instance? I’m just curious, I’m a pure mutt user myself. Ben ---
**Author:** ![dawntayl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@dawntayl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dawntayl)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-a-very-simple-vimrc-example-to-use-with-my-gmail-accoun/55689/5 "2006-03-24T02:31:58Z")
On 3/24/06, Ben B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > … mutt’s not really a simple, friendly thing 🙂 > > I’ve never used mutt with pop3. I use getmail to fetch my IMAP mail > into local Maildir, where I read it with mutt. > > I have no idea what the state of POP3 support in mutt is. getmail > supports it 🙂 Or fetchmail or whatever. > > Why mutt and not Mail.app, for instance? I’m just curious, I’m a pure > mutt user myself. yeah i found mutt is problematic… i found this: [http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=gmail+with+mutt&qt\_s=Search](http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=gmail+with+mutt&qt_s=Search) (feeling desperate) i can’t use my mutt from DarwinPort as it has no support for POP and SSL. must compile and blah blah (complicated)… i’ve tried Outlook, Kmail, evolution, apple mail and i used thunderbird for my whole life, they all suck. heavy. i got thousands of email everyday (groups including this Rails maillist) and i just don’t feel like using them anymore… i need a lightweight and powerful mail client such as Mutt. You know, like ViM (in editor world), i still love it eventhough i code Rails with TextMate… less menu, simple UI, lightweight but powerful (like Vim) and i think Mutt is a good companion with someone who’s used to use ViM. How I wish there’s a good video to setup Mutt (and others: fetchmail,etc) to retrieve and send with my gmail account, so i can throw away this thunderbird. Just like in Rails world, so i can throw away php. – Dawn Taylor dawntayl (at) gmail (dot) com ---
**Author:** ![dawntayl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@dawntayl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dawntayl)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-a-very-simple-vimrc-example-to-use-with-my-gmail-accoun/55689/6 "2006-03-24T02:47:43Z")
> yeah i found mutt is problematic… i found this: > [http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=gmail+with+mutt&qt\_s=Search](http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=gmail+with+mutt&qt_s=Search) > > (feeling desperate) i can’t use my mutt from DarwinPort as it has no > support for POP and SSL. must compile and blah blah (complicated)… I think you’ll find that every part of mutt is complicated 🙂 > i’ve tried Outlook, Kmail, evolution, apple mail and i used > thunderbird for my whole life, they all suck. heavy. i got thousands > of email everyday (groups including this Rails maillist) and i just > don’t feel like using them anymore… i need a lightweight and > powerful mail client such as Mutt. You know, like ViM (in editor > world), i still love it eventhough i code Rails with TextMate… less > menu, simple UI, lightweight but powerful (like Vim) and i think Mutt > is a good companion with someone who’s used to use ViM. I think what you need is pine, not mutt. mutt is great and I use it all the time, but it’s complex. Pine integrates filters and a bunch of other stuff so you don’t have to mess around too much. mutt requires a full-blown toolchain. If you insist on sticking with mut, it sounds to me that your best bet is to use fetchmail or getmail or something similar to download your mail from gmail to a Maildir or mbox and use mutt to read that. Mutt is intended to do only one thing: read mail. Other features have been added out of necessity over time, but it’s always better to used specialized tools. For instance, mutt doesn’t have delivery functions. You need to have an smtp server running to send mail. My complete mail solution is this: my host runs some IMAP server, from which I fetch with getmail. Getmail passes messages off to procmail, which in turn delivers into my Maildir. Then I read them with mutt. When I reply, it’s injected into my local qmail queue, which in turns forwards to my ISP’s smtp server. When I used pine, it handled everything. > How I wish there’s a good video to setup Mutt (and others: > fetchmail,etc) to retrieve and send with my gmail account, so i can > throw away this thunderbird. Just like in Rails world, so i can throw > away php. Videos don’t make any sense when all you’re doing is typing in a terminal window 😉 There are tons of mutt config examples out there. Google for “mutt gmail” and you’ll find a bunch of walkthroughs on using fetchmail/mutt with gmail. Good luck, Ben ---
**Author:** ![dawntayl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@dawntayl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dawntayl)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-a-very-simple-vimrc-example-to-use-with-my-gmail-accoun/55689/7 "2006-03-23T20:18:38Z")
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006, Dawn Taylor wrote: > thanks, now, is there a very, very simple way to “suck” my > (removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid) gmail pop3 into my mutt? is it the .muttrc only > or do i have to configure anything else? my i wonder why there’s no > friendly video to use mutt for mac users… > TIA. [mutt.org](http://mutt.org) has instructions on how to use pop/imap/whatever. Ben