Configuration examples for paclink-unix email clients

• movemail, postfix - from Ubuntu forums
• Using Movemail with Thunderbird on Ubuntu - from Ask Ubuntu

1. Edit > Account settings…
2. Select 'Movemail' option in account wizard, hit Next.
3. Set up user information - Your Name 'Jon Doe' ←- displayed name on emails.
4. Set email address to 'your_user_name_here at localhost' ←- no .com / .net / .org suffix.
5. Set 'Outgoing Server' to 'localhost'
6. Account name - I just set this to 'my_user_name at localhost'.
   • You can set it to 'local mail' or 'mail from my machine', etc.
7. Now you will get a summary page that asks you to confirm the following information:

Account Name: my_account_name at localhost
Email Address: my_account_name at localhost
Incoming Server Type: MOVEMAIL
Outgoing User Name: my_user_name
Outgoing Server Name (SMTP): localhost

• Overview of Mail & Mutt.
• The latest version of mutt is NeoMutt
  • Original Mutt e-mail client home page
• Learning Mutt

• As root

apt-get install mutt

• or install mail program

apt-get install mailutils

• Example .muttrc file
• mutt has good documentation
• cd to your home directory and confirm there is a Maildir directory
• Setup up the rest of the mail directories

mkdir -p ~/Maildir/{,cur,tmp,new}
mkdir -p ~/Maildir/inbox/{,cur,tmp,new}
mkdir -p ~/Maildir/sent/{,cur,tmp,new}
mkdir -p ~/Maildir/drafts/{,cur,tmp,new}
mkdir -p ~/Maildir/trash/{,cur,tmp,new}
mkdir -p ~/Maildir/attachments/{,cur,tmp,new}

• Copy the following mutt .muttrc config file to your home dir and personalize
  • Do not run mutt until you have edited this file: example .muttrc file
  • Make sure that you have configured you mail client Reply-To: to be a valid winlink address. ie:
    • Reply-To: ke7kro@winlink.org

• Create a mail message in a text file
• Subject follows -s in quotes
• mutt -c allows specifying Carbon Copy addresses
• Blind Copy (Bcc:) does not work in winlink e-mail

# send content of a file in body of e-mail
mutt -s "put subject line here" you@youremailid.com someoneelse@whatever.com < file_name_of_content

• Another example doing the same thing

mutt -s "//WL2K R/ Test msg" callsign>@winlink.org < mail_message_file_name

• Sending e-mail with an attachment
  • Sending Email With Attachments From Unix / Linux Command [ Shell Prompt ]

mutt -s "//WL2K R/ Test msg" -a /tmp/file.tar.gz you@cyberciti.biz < /tmp/mailmessage.txt

• Multiple attachments use -a for each attachment

mutt -s “//WL2K R/ Test msg” -a attach1 -a attach2 -a attach3 vivek@nixcraft.co.in < /tmp/mailmessage.txt

• Send e-mail to multiple users, separate addresses with a comma

mutt -s “//WL2K R/” kg6geu@winlink.org, ke7kro@winlink.org  < /tmp/mailmessage.txt

• mutt and mail programs have similar syntax for the basic operation
  • mutt -x will emulate the mailx compose mode
• NOTE: winlink mail is picky about the “From:” & “Reply-To:” fields so you need to set them explicitly

# send content of a file in body of e-mail
mail -s "//WL2K your subject line here" -a "From: yourcallsign@winlink.org" -a "Reply-To: yourcallsign@winlink.org" someonescallsign@winlink.org someregularemailaddress < file_name_of_content

• Note in the example below you must use single quotes in the -s subject argument because of the forward slashes

# from command line or script
echo “This will go into the body of the mail” | mail -s '//WL2K cmd line test' -a "From: yourcallsign@winlink.org" -a "Reply-To: yourcallsign@winlink.org" some_regular_email_address

• There are a number of choices for web based e-mail clients, google is your friend
  • NeoMail - uses movemail
  • SquirrelMail - uses imap server