Kernel Development Learning Pipeline

Configuring and using mutt

Mutt is a free and open source text based mail user agent (email client) suitable for use in your terminal.

Open the course email list by running the mutt command within your class container.

It is already configured to use your course credentials to access the course email list as you.

Before the relevant submission deadline for each component of each assignment, you will see no messages in your inbox related to it, even your own submission(s). All email is released at most once a day in a batch after the corresponding due date passes. As such, interactive discussions are not possible over email, and you should use the course Matrix for them instead.

In mutt, you will see a list of email threads.

Press:

• enter to view which message you have highlighted

• q while viewing a message to exit back to the main screen.

• space to scroll to the next page within the email.

• q or ctrl+c to exit mutt.

• r while viewing a message to draft a reply.

You can configure your own email client (e.g. thunderbird) to use your course account if you wish, but if you do so, the instructors will not be able to help troubleshoot any issues that might occur, so you acknowledge that any problems that result from using a different email client are your own responsibility to resolve and do not form viable grounds for excusing any failure to complete required course submissions.