aerc + notmuch setting up gist



What's there:

            +----------------------------+
            | Email Server               |
            +----------------------------+
                ^               ^
                | imap          |
                |               | SMTP
                v               |
            +--------------+    |
+-+         | isync        |    |
| |-------- | (mbsync)     |    |
|P|         +--------------+    |
|A|             |               |
|S|         [ LOCAL STORAGE]    |
|S|             |               |
+-+             |  + notmuch    |
 |              |   INCOMING    | OUTGOING
 |              V               |
 |          +---------------------------+
 +--------- |     aerc                  |
            +---------------------------+


1. configure password manager (here gnupg + pass). If you are OK with
   storing your password as plaintext config file then skip (I dare you)

    https://www.passwordstore.org


2. configure incoming mails. Later I may write about how to do this
   manually (no one wants to...) but here you can just use the
   mutt-wizzard tool from Luke Smith. Just follow the instruction and
   create your mbsync config. (Since we are not using mutt, you can skip
   anything SMTP related)

    https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard

   this should set up your mbsync; it also stores your password into
   password-store. Your emails will be downloaded to

    ~/.local/share/mail/<your_email_address>

3. now you should be able to configure aerc for incoming emails. You
   could use aerc's new-account wizzarwd. For incoming emails select
   notmuch. You could just give placeholders if you are not sure about
   something. In the end check the config file and it should look like
   this:

    ~/.config/aerc/accounts.conf

    [my]
    default              = INBOX
    from                 = you name <you@example.org>
    copy-to              = Sent

    # NOTMUCH SOURCE
    source               = notmuch://~/.local/share/mail
    maildir-store        = ~/.local/share/mail
    maildir-account-path = <your@example.org>
    query-map            = ~/.config/aerc/my.qmap
    check-mail-cmd       = mailsync you@example.org

    # OUTGOING SMTP + STARTLS
    outgoing             = smtp+login://account@example.org:587
    outgoing-cred-cmd    = pass you@example.org

    # OUTGOING SMTP + TLS
    outgoing             = smtps://account@smtp.example.org:465
    outgoing-cred-cmd    = pass you@example.org

3.1 note for the outgoing email protocol and port numbers, you should
    edit accordingly.

4. setting up crontab (periodic pulling your emails in the background).
    you can simply use mutt wizzard

    $ mw -t [minutes]

    or manually put `mailsync` in your crontab.