Disabling imap_list_subscribed is an experimental variation (implicit in Standford's suggestions), which we have found re-enables Directory listing and tab completion. Please note: mutt-office365 includes set imap_list_subscribed="yes", which results in one's Directory browser display being empty, and disables the perniciously-useful tab completion mechanism for folder names. Set imap_list_subscribed="no" # See below
# use your own SSO capital letters matter here ) but they are beyond the scope of this guide.
You can add the app password into the settings file. This will permit you to read incoming e-mails, and to move them between folders. muttrc is significant.) IMAP settings: access your inbox (Please note that the order of definitions in one's. When mutt starts up, it looks for the file. where +mutt adds a symbolic link, so it can be invoked as "mutt" under the Principle of Least Surprise.
Port install neomutt +gdbm +imap +gnutls +gpgme +mutt For example, the version we distribute to Apple desktop systems with MacPorts is built using: The copy of mutt to be used should have TLS (nee SSL) and PGP support. This has been shamelessly stolen from mutt-office365 on Github, with hints from Stanford's mutt configuration suggestions, and some local modifications. and be prepared to make local substitutions. Please see also (and compare and contrast): Please let us know whether you have problems with this, other than with being nagged for passwords. Ways of working round this are under investigation.įor laptops, and other systems off-site, please use: replacing abcd1234 with your own SSO. This is known to demand you enter your password for each e-mail sent. To file copies to yourself in the Sent Items folder, add: Items SMTP (outgoing mail), on-site:įor desktop systems or servers on-site, please use: replacing abcd1234 with your own SSO. and be creative then let us know what you did, and whether or not it worked, so we can amend this section. Stanford's Alpine configuration suggestions To see mail folders other than Inbox from Nexus365 in alpine add the following line: folder-collections=Nexus365folders this does not work, please see the folder-collection line in: This will also store your SMTP password once you've typed it in the first time. The storage uses encryption with a master password (that you can set) so there is little risk to this method. When you start up alpine this will cause it to prompt for the password and then whether or not you want to store it. password is (intentionally) hard to remember and difficult to type, so we will also enable password storage by typing touch ~/.pine-passfile chmod 600 ~/.pine-passfile You will be prompted for a password when you invoke alpine this should be an app password generated via the Nexus system.
Please take a copy of this file before you update it as insurance, and as documentation of what used to work (including settings not discussed here). pinerc in your home directory, or equivalently (for some settings, but not all) by entering Setup inside pine. Ext username: # (amend abcd1234 as above).OUITS: setting up alternative email clients.This is intentional: the first is part of your Nexus365 login name, which happens to have an embedded at sign. Some lines may end up with two at signs.Where is specified, using capital letters is important.replace my_email_identity by your registered e-mail identity (eg " replace My Real Name by however you wish people to address you-as-you formally.replace my_physics_login by whatever you use to log into Physics's desktops and servers.replace abcd1234 by your University-wide SSO username (usually of the form phys1234).The configuration instructions use metavariable names, which you should replace with values pertaining to you: This app password should be used in place of your sso password. Generating them is completely reliant on central IT, please follow the instructions here and generate one before configuration:
The university is starting a policy of requiring MFA for logins, this means when it is enabled app passwords must be created and used for text-based mail clients. Here are our recommendations for text-based mail clients on desktop systems in Physics. Some people find web-based or other graphical mail clients cumbersome or unwieldy, and there are circumstances under which using a graphical interface is inconvenient or simply not possible.