I'm continuing this discussion from @sc0ttman's nmail topic:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic. ... 127#p61127
As I thoroughly enjoyed nmail's easy inbox setup, I was not able to get smtp SSL outgoing mail to work. The interface is a great example of elegant design in my opinion. So I really want to get it working. It's configuration is very basic compared to the endless possibilities of a terminal based mail client like neomutt, which I have avoided for it's not-so-easy setup.
But...
At the suggestion of @williwaw I compiled the latest version of neomutt on Fossapup64. Now I'm trying to set up accounts through neomutt, which as I feared, is not that user friendly.
@williwaw was kind enough to tip me off to the fact that neomutt doesn't retrieve mail without an added application. So I installed getmail-5.1 from the Fossapup repo. And I must say, as much as I'm looking forward to using neomutt, that seems to be a few hours of configuration away. Nmail was really cool in that after compiling and installing, there were only a few entries from the command line to pick up my imap mail from both outlook.office365.com and frontiernet. All of the mail fetch/read functions worked OOTB. But like I said sending SMTP is a different story, and I may contact the developer to see if he has any advice.
Ultimately, I think this is a plot to get me to figure out how mail servers actually work. Maybe if I spend around a hundred hours or so reading and configuring, I'll be able to set up my own server someday.
I will post my progress on neomutt as it happens.