# The Mutt E-Mail Client

"All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less." -me, circa 1995

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## Latest News

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.

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## 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
  - FAQ (maintained by Felix von Leitner)
  - Man Page
  - Manual
    - HTML (gzipped)
    - Text (gzipped)
  - Recent Changes to Mutt (please read if upgrading)
  - Sample Configuration (.muttrc, etc.) Files
  - Mutt and IMAP (maintained by Brendan Cully)
  - Using Mutt with GPG/PGP
    - Official Mutt doc (included in the release)
    - Alternate version (for PGP/GPG newbies, by Justin R. Miller)
    - Alternate version (from the LDP)
  - Mutt overview for newbies (maintained by Bruno Postle)
- 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)

## Features

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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## Mutt User Discussion

- Mailing Lists
  - mutt-announce@mutt.org -- Announcements.
  - mutt-users@mutt.org -- General Discussion.
  - mutt-users Archive (AIMS)
  - mutt-users Archive (mail-archive.com)
  - mutt-users Archive (Egroups)
  - mutt-dev@mutt.org -- Development Community.
  - mutt-dev Archive (AIMS)
  - mutt-dev Archive (Egroups)
  - mutt-po@mutt.org -- Translation Issues.
  - Subscribe to the lists through this web site. (You need to be subscribed to the lists to post to them.)

- Newsgroup
  - comp.mail.mutt
  - comp.mail.mutt Archive (Deja.com)

- IRC -- Channel #mutt on irc.openprojects.net

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## Press About Mutt

- A Man And His Mutt -- Developer Shed
- Mutt: An e-mail user's best friend -- Part One -- LinuxNovice.org. Part Two
- Mutt -- Mutt was the app of the week at Linuxcare.
- Man's Best Friend -- Linux World.
- Mutt: A Unix Mailer for Experts -- an article from 32BitsOnline.
- The Mutt Mailer -- an (old) article from the Linux Gazette.

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