This may have been Steve Litt: | > I'd like to learn Mutt and switch to that, but Mutt is tough to use | > with IMAP and Mutt is very unforgiving of user error. That hasn't been my experience with mutt over the past decade plus. My IMAP setup my my .muttrc file is basically: set spoolfile=imaps://mail.mailserver.com/INBOX set imap_user="myname@example.com" set imap_pass="password" set smtp_url ="smtp://myname@example.com@submit.mailserver.com:587/" set smtp_pass="password" set smtp_authenticators = "login" set ssl_force_tls = yes Or if you're more careful than I am, mutt can prompt for your password.