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  • xterm : enable 256 color support on : xterm-256color

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    You might need 256 bit color support in your various terminal applications like vim, mutt, mplayer, htop and others. Below are the instructions to enable 256 bit color support. Pretty quick, issue command in your terminal $ export TERM=xterm-256color To make it permanant, add the same to your .bashrc or .zshrc file, according to the…

  • MUTT : Background sending with mSMTP

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    I am regular mutt user. Here is a good fix to remove waiting while the mutt interacts with the SMTP server to send an email. Previously I used a local mail server, now I am going to use mSMTP which is a SMTP Client just like mutt. We will let the mSMTP do the sending…

  • Installing and Configuring mSMTP

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    mSMTP is an SMTP client which can be used with various applications and scripts such as Mutt, Php, Python etc Remember, we will do everything as a sudo user and NOT root. Install the msmtp and ca-certificates packages. For Arch $ sudo pacman -S msmtp ca-certificates For Debian/Ubuntu $ sudo apt-get install msmtp ca-certificates For…