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| author | Luke <luke@lukesmith.xyz> | 2018-02-14 10:38:52 -0700 |
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| committer | Luke <luke@lukesmith.xyz> | 2018-02-14 10:38:52 -0700 |
| commit | 0f8c27918d0dbc11d5577180f8cf1a6c473da7af (patch) | |
| tree | f243631496984b93fb2f433430acf613652345ee /README.md | |
| parent | da31840c15898eb52d1d8cce7946e92a267b779d (diff) | |
readme fixes
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@@ -24,11 +24,13 @@ The only email provider which I think will *not* work (and will never work) is P dialog, neomutt and offlineimap should be installed. The contents of this repo should go directly in `~/.config/mutt/` and run from there. You also need to have a GPG public/private key pair for the wizard to automatically store your passwords. Otherwise you'll have to store them insecurely in plaintext files without the help of the wizard. -Just run `mutt-wizard.sh` for all the options. +Just run `mutt-wizard.sh` for all the options, to install an account: -Once you successfully run the script, you should be able to simply run `offlineimap` to start your mail sync (which will be big at first). Opening `neomutt`, you should see your mail. +* First, select the "Add an account" option and give the script your account information. +* Second, in a separate terminal, start your mail sync my running `offlineimap` or `offlineimap -a <your account name>`. This will start downloading all your mail for offline access. +* Third, once your mailbox has started to download, reenter the script and select the "Auto-detect mailboxes" open. This will finalize the install and let you open up mutt to see your mail. -Note that once you run `offlineimap`, you'll want to reopen the script and select the option to autodetect mailboxes to put the finishing touches and to let you switch from mailbox-to-mailbox in just two key presses. +Whenever you want to check for mail, just run the `offlineimap` command again. ### "Wait? The script asks for my passwords?" |