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Has anyone successfully configured mutt for GMail on FreeBSD? If so, how?

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I've tried following the instructions here and here. Currently, I can read email from my GMail account, but not send—this is on a personal computer, so even if I configured Sendmail, I doubt any of the mail would survive the spam filter gauntlet. Both guides seem to require the option for , which I…

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--enable-smtp

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I wouldn't use the SMTP support in Mutt. <subjective> It's just not the Unix way. Much better is </subjective> to configure something like or or maybe to relay email through Gmail's servers, and then let Mutt use the standard way of sending messages.

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