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Thanks to the ample Gentoo documentation, I have replaced ssmtp (with no Authenticated SMTP support) with msmtp (at least as far as mutt is concerned), which worked on the first try. Good thing because Earthlink is phasing out the in-the-clear (non-authenticated) SMTP servers, according to the Support guy I spoke with on the weekend.

Here is the exact article that introduced me to msmtp and which provided all the information I needed to set it up.

I moved my [Windows 2000] $HOME directory to my 4th generation 40GB iPod today. Ah, the freedom! But now I have to be good about backing it up, lest this bite me in the rear.

Boy, I’m lovin’ this thing called mutt! I continue to customize my mutt email client (MUA). I’m just tickled by the level of customization possible with it.

Here are just a few of tonight’s additions to my ~/.muttrc:

set quit=yes # quit without asking

###############################################################################

# COLOR

###############################################################################

#headers:

color header brightgreen black “^to: ”

color header brightgreen black “^cc: ”

color header brightcyan black “^date: ”

color header brightred black “User-Agent:”

color header brightgreen black “^from: ”

color header brightmagenta default “^subject: ”

color body brightyellow default ” [;:=]-*[)>(<|]” # 🙂 etc…

# email addresses

color body brightblue default “[-a-z_0-9.%$]+@[-a-z_0-9.]+\.[-a-z][-a-z]+”

# URLs

color body brightblue default “(http|ftp|news|telnet|finger)://[^ “trn]*”

color body brightblue default “mailto:[-a-z_0-9.]+@[-a-z_0-9.]+”

color body brightblue default “(news|www|ftp).[^ “trn]*”

#Two other approaches to hyperlink matching.

color body brightgreen default “((ftp|http|https)://|(file|mailto|news):|www\.)[-a-z0-9_.:]*[a-z0-9](/[^][{} tnr”()]*[^][{} tnr”().,:!])?/?”

color body brightgreen default “[-a-z_0-9.+]+@[-a-z_0-9.]+”

###############################################################################

# FORMAT

###############################################################################

set folder_format=” %-8s %d %f”

set index_format = “%Z %2C %{%b %d} %-15.15F (%4l) %s”