Has anyone successfully configured mutt for GMail on FreeBSD? If so, how?

Solution 1:

I wouldn't use the SMTP support in Mutt. <subjective> It's just not the Unix way. Much better is </subjective> to configure something like esmtp or msmtp or maybe nullmailer to relay email through Gmail's servers, and then let Mutt use the standard /usr/bin/sendmail way of sending messages.

Solution 2:

If that config option is the issue (I don't know one way or the other), try building the mail/mutt port with:

$ make clean
$ make MUTT_CONFIGURE_ARGS=--enable-smtp
$ make install

Solution 3:

The following sequence seems to work (hat-tip to The Quick-N-Dirty Guide to Using mutt with gmail, where I learned the -Doption trick for ports).

1. cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt-devel
2. make -DWITH_MUTT_SMTP install clean