Recently, I switched to ProtonMail as a way of increasing my privacy online and moving away from the “data as currency” model of Google and Facebook (as part of this same effort, I closed my Facebook in favor of creating this blog!). However, most of what I describe here has been my setup for a while due to my penchant for two things:
- Wanting to keep my emails backed up (and a local copy always at hand).
- Wanting a simple but powerful email reader so that it gets out of the way while enabling as much customization as needed.
At the same time, I wanted a system where I could easily add and remove accounts while adding/removing as little configuration as possible, and this informs the way I partition my configuration files (as will be apparent).
As the title suggests, there are two different parts to this setup: fetchmail and mutt.
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