# Kernel Dev Blog 3 -- Email
## 4/5/2020

So it took my a while to setup mutt and email on the VM machine. They were installed on day one but not configured until now and it had some workarounds.

In Gmail I enabled IMAP and got the configuration setup as it specified.

I setup the `~/.esmptrc` file with the following information so it could send through Gmail

```text
identity "m*****n@gmail.com"
hostname smtp.gmail.com:587
username "m*****n@gmail.com"
password "*************"
starttls required
```

In the `~/.muttrc` file i configured it to send through esmtp

```text
set sendmail="/usr/bin/esmtp"
set envelope_from=yes
set from="Jordan Savant <m*****n@gmail.com>"
set use_from=yes
set edit_headers=yes
```

Then I ran `mutt` and built some mail with `m` but was receiving an error of:

```text
mx_get_magic(): unable to stat /var/mail/doomguy  No such file or directory
```

and

```text
Error sending message, child exited 70 (Internal error.).
```

After some digging I needed to get the first error to go away by making it a file I had permissions to read and write to (not a directory)

And I had to enable "Less Secure Apps" under my Google Account at https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps

(this was not well documented and found on a random file)

At that point it began working