The Mutt E-Mail Client
"All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less." -me, circa 1995
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Mutt 1.3.28 was released on March 13, 2002. This is a release
candidate for 1.4.
Mutt 1.2.5.1 and 1.3.25 were released on January 1, 2002. These releases both
fix a security hole which can be remotely exploited. For more
information, see the
release announcement.
Mutt 1.3.24 was released on November 30, 2001. This is a beta
development release toward the next stable public release version. There have
been several large changes since 1.2.x, so please check the
recent changes page.
The Mutt CVS server has moved from ftp.guug.de to ftp.mutt.org.
more news
General Info
Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating
systems. The latest public release version is 1.3.28, which is a
release candidate for 1.4. The current stable public release
version is 1.2.5.1. For more information, see the following:
- Features
- Screenshots
- Documentation
- Downloading
- News (releases, security alerts, etc.)
- Current Reported Bugs
- User Discussion
(mailing lists, newsgroups, IRC, etc.)
- Links (user advocacy, international pages,
user contributed docs, patches, scripts, add-ons, other recommended
programs, etc.)
- What Other People Are Saying About Mutt (press)
Some of Mutt's features include:
- color support
- message threading
- MIME support (including RFC2047 support for encoded headers)
- PGP/MIME (RFC2015)
- various features to support mailing lists, including list-reply
- active development community
- POP3 support
- IMAP support
- full control of message headers when composing
- support for multiple mailbox formats (mbox, MMDF, MH, maildir)
- highly customizable, including keybindings and macros
- change configuration automatically based on recipients, current
folder, etc.
- searches using regular expressions, including an internal pattern
matching language
- Delivery Status Notification (DSN) support
- postpone message composition indefinetly for later recall
- easily include attachments when composing, even from the command line
- ability to specify alternate addresses for recognition of mail
forwarded from other accounts, with ability to set the From: headers
on replies/etc. accordingly
- multiple message tagging
- reply to or forward multiple messages at once
- .mailrc style configuration files
- easy to install (uses GNU autoconf)
- compiles against either curses/ncurses or S-lang
- translation into at least 20 languages
- small and efficient
- It's free! (no cost and GPL'ed)
Screenshots demonstrating some of Mutt's
capabilities are available.
Though written from scratch, Mutt's initial interface was based largely on the
ELM mail client. To a large extent,
Mutt is still very ELM-like in presentation of information in menus (and in
fact, ELM users will find it quite painless to switch as the default key
bindings are identical). As development progressed, features found in other
popular clients such as PINE and MUSH have been added, the result being a
hybrid, or "mutt." At present, it most closely resembles the SLRN news client. Mutt was
originally written by Michael Elkins
but is now developed and maintained by the members of the Mutt development
mailing list.
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Jeremy Blosser.
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