Please note that, by default, all new CS accounts are configured so that your CS email is
automatically forwarded to your @indiana.edu email address so you will not have email delivered
on the CS mail server. Please see the
associated FAQ for information about email forwarding on the CS systems
and information on how to have your @cs.indiana.edu email delivered locally on the CS mail server.
Mutt
is a small but powerful text-based mail client for Unix that is
freely downloadable and is installed on all the CS systems.
In order to read your CS email using mutt
you can configure mutt by adding the
following to your
~/.muttrc configuration file:
set spoolfile = {mail.cs.indiana.edu/ssl}INBOX
set folder = {mail.cs.indiana.edu/ssl}
set imap_user = USERNAME
You will need to replace USERNAME with
your username. Note
that you do not replace INBOX with anything. There is also an
imap_pass variable you can set with your account password but we
urge you not to use it. Having your password in cleartext in
a configuration file like this is strongly discouraged.
Once this is done you will have to accept the certificate for the
mail server the first time you run mutt. You will have to then
login with your password each time you start mutt.
While we do not recommend it, it is also possible on the CS systems to
configure mutt to read your mail spool directly via the filesystem.
This will allow you to read your email without having to enter
a password each time you start mutt. To do this, use the following
in your .muttrc:
set spoolfile = /nfs/mail/var/spool/mail/USERNAME
