---
title: "Mutt Gmail Labels and Contact Suggestions via IMAP"
description: "No matter how many E-Mail client are released, the power of Mutt remains unbeaten IMAP or POP3 ?! This has become much a."
url: "https://h3manth.com/scribe/mutt-gmail-labels-and-contact-suggestions-imap/"
canonical_url: "https://h3manth.com/scribe/mutt-gmail-labels-and-contact-suggestions-imap/"
markdown_url: "https://h3manth.com/scribe/blog/mutt-gmail-labels-and-contact-suggestions-imap.md"
publishDate: "2010-06-29T00:00:00.000Z"
author: "Hemanth HM"
category: "linux"
tags: ["ubuntu","git","linux"]
word_count: 158
reading_time_minutes: 1
x_markdown_tokens: 330
content_signal: "ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes"
---

# Mutt Gmail Labels and Contact Suggestions via IMAP

> No matter how many E-Mail client are released, the power of Mutt remains unbeaten IMAP or POP3 ?! This has become much a.

**No matter how many E-Mail client are released, the power of Mutt remains unbeaten**

**IMAP or POP3 ?!**

This has become much a religious war like the Emacs vs VI. With most of the ISP's facilitating the users with both the protocols and POP3 with few additions like _"Leave messages on server" and "until I delete them." or "archive them"_ is making the battle more violent. But with the fundamental principle and enormous response from the majority of Mutt users IMAP and Mutt goes very well together

_sudo apt-get install mutt_ to get mutt or can get the source and compile if not on Debian based OS.IMAP must be enabled in Gmail (settings -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP -> IMAP Access).

_The below is configuration template i made that helps to achieve Mutt+IMAP+SSL+GNU GPG+Labels and also contact suggestions using GoogleCL:_ _Place the file in ~/.muttrc or ~/.mutt/muttrc_

**Do fork the git and improve it :** **$ git clone git://gist.github.com/456921.git**