Any mutt mail client users?

[fangis]

So I downloaded the mutt email client, and found some instructions on to set it up with gmail, however:

My gmail account has stored until now thousands of msgs, and I dont want mutt to download all the headers of emails... is there a way to download only, say the last 20 msgs? instead of every single message.
Also I dont know why, but i cannot send any email just retrieve messages... the commands for setting up smtp were not recognized.
I can show my muttrc file if needed.

thanks for the help.
fangis

[chattrhand]

I have some older email accounts that I would like to check from time to time for new mails.

Meanwhile they have a volume of some GByte, and when I autostart thunderbird at boot the RAM is running full and TinyCore hangs up.

Now I have created separate TC installations each for a different mail account, but this is a suboptimal solution that needs a lot of additional work.

Some ideas?

[netnomad]

hi chattrhand,

with thunderbird i check my email accounts with a basic set of configuration files that need less than 1mb backup.
additionally i save the popstate.dat of all my email-accounts for each session, so only new mails are downloaded, the former downloaded mails are not downloaded in further sessions.
at the same time i save every single popstate.dat of the last 30 days, so f.e. i can use the saved popstate.dats of the last week to get all mails of last week...

tc@box:~/.thunderbird_base$ ls -laR
.:
total 8
drwx--S---    3 tc       staff          100 Apr  2 19:40 ./
drwxr-s---   33 tc       staff         1700 Apr  2 23:05 ../
-rw-r--r--    1 tc       staff          335 Mar 12  2013 appreg
drwx------    3 tc       staff          280 Apr  2 19:40 default/
-rw-r--r--    1 tc       staff           94 Mar 12  2013 profiles.ini

./default:
total 592
drwx------    3 tc       staff          280 Apr  2 19:40 ./
drwx--S---    3 tc       staff          100 Apr  2 19:40 ../
drwxr-xr-x   11 tc       staff          220 Apr  2 19:40 Mail/
-rw-r--r--    1 tc       staff         3122 Mar  9 10:40 abook.mab
-rw-r--r--    1 tc       staff          232 Mar  9 10:40 extensions.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 tc       staff       458752 Mar  9 10:40 extensions.sqlite
-rw-------    1 tc       staff        16384 Mar  9 10:40 key3.db
-rw-r--r--    1 tc       staff         6940 Mar  9 10:40 localstore.rdf
-rw-r--r--    1 tc       staff         5815 Mar  9 10:40 mimeTypes.rdf
-rw-r--r--    1 tc       staff        44315 Mar  9 10:40 prefs.js
-rw-------    1 tc       staff        16384 Mar  9 10:40 secmod.db
-rw-r--r--    1 tc       staff          384 Mar  9 10:40 session.json
-rw-r--r--    1 tc       staff        25600 Mar  9 10:40 signons.sqlite
-rw-------    1 tc       staff          992 Mar  9 10:40 signons3.txt

and all my popstate.dat for each mail-account in the ../Mail-folder.

for each session a little script copies ~/.thunderbird_base to ~/.thunderbird.
at the end of the session a second script backups the new popstate.dat to ~/.thunderbird/Mail/mymailaccount/

[Pats]

Hi fangis,
Gmail has imap protocal, is not it suitable for you, it shows only the headers, and one can choose to downlaod only the required emails for offline viewing, rest can be deleted wihout even reading/dnloading.
Hope this helps.
Evolution is best suited for Gmail with readymade settings for IMAP / POP.