About:
Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based MIME mail client. It is highly configurable, and is well-suited to the mail power user with advanced features like key bindings, keyboard macros, mail threading, regular expression searches, and a powerful pattern matching language for selecting groups of messages.

Release focus: Minor feature enhancements

Changes:
User-defined variables are now completely supported. Header caching for MH folders, header/body caching for POP folders, and a QDBM backend for header caching were added. The IMAP backend was enhanced with support for 'old' flags, IMAP-IDLE, SASL-IR, and pipeline-based communication. The ability to pattern-match complete threads was added. Pattern-group support was added. Attachment counting was implemented. Large file support was completed. Irish and Basque translations were added.

Author:
Mutt Developers <mutt __dash__ dev __at__ mutt __dot__ org> [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.92/10.00 (215 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.mutt.org/
Tar/GZ:
ftp://ftp.mutt.org/mutt/devel/
RPM package:
http://rpm.pbone.net/?stat=3&search=mutt
Debian package:
http://packages.debian.org/mutt
BSD Ports URL:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=mutt
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://dev.mutt.org/hg/mutt/
Bug tracker:
http://dev.mutt.org/
Mailing list archive:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mutt-dev
Mirror site:
http://www.mutt.org/download.html

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based), Console (Text Based) :: Curses
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX
[Topic]		Communications :: Email, Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Stable	1.4.2.3	27-May-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Development	1.5.18	09-Jun-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.5.18	Minor bugfixes	09-Jun-2008 18:01
1.5.16	Minor feature enhancements	11-Jun-2007 12:24
1.5.13	Minor feature enhancements	15-Aug-2006 12:28
1.5.11	Minor feature enhancements	03-Jan-2006 22:20
1.5.7	Major feature enhancements	03-Feb-2005 10:04
1.5.5.1i	Minor bugfixes	10-Nov-2003 17:27
1.5.4i	Minor security fixes	04-Nov-2003 09:22
1.5.3i	Major feature enhancements	09-Feb-2003 17:14
1.3.99	Minor bugfixes	02-May-2002 07:08
1.3.28	Minor bugfixes	14-Mar-2002 07:16

 Articles referencing this project

Without A Net by jeff covey , in Editorials Sat, May 31st 2008 00:00 Sup: Gmail Meets the Console by jeff covey , in Project Reviews Sat, Sep 15th 2007 00:00 Red Hat: Updated mutt package fixes several security bugs by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Jun 10th 2007 07:47 Debian: New mutt packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Fri, Jul 14th 2006 05:16 t-prot by jeff covey , in Project Reviews Sun, Jun 27th 2004 00:00

Red Hat: Updated mutt packages fix remotely-triggerable crash by Patrick Lenz , in Security Wed, Feb 11th 2004 07:34 Red Hat: Updated balsa and mutt packages fix vulnerabilities by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Apr 8th 2003 07:30 Debian: New mutt packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Apr 8th 2003 06:21 SuSE: New mutt packages fix remote system compromise by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Mar 25th 2003 07:15 [more articles]

 Comments

[»] docs and samples
by Michael Shigorin - Apr 10th 2005 06:18:55

BTW, the Mutt FAQ is very useful to read *before* looking at Mutt itself. (we host Russian translation).

And when someone's in progress of hammering his (or even her) own config file to personal taste and habit samples of already existing configuration are available at dotfiles.com. Worth looking at, must admit.

Good luck, and if you're tired with e-mail, a couple of days to get used to mutt and make it fit you will pay back quite quickly -- I'd estimate less than two weeks of accomodation time (being ex-Pine user).

--
Michael Shigorin mike SOMEWHERE AT altlinux PLUS DOT org

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[»] mmm mutt
by gt3 - Sep 22nd 2002 07:40:57

mutt is the king of unix MUAs. I recommend reading the muttrc manpage immediately from top to bottom and crafting the perfect .muttrc file for your needs.

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[»] Oh yes!
by David Collantes - Feb 21st 2002 16:54:21

Talk about a robust, flexible and powerful email client! Happily using Mutt and loving it!

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[»] My Fav
by dcardamo - Jun 18th 2001 23:22:56

This is my favorite mail app out there. Its extremely powerful and configurable.

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[»] Re: My Fav
by evoltech - Aug 8th 2001 23:01:14

Mutt rules I use lynx to read all my html messages from the console plug it right into .mailcap

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yr obdn't srvn't

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[»] Review of mutt 1.0.1
by bneely - Apr 7th 2000 13:47:06

Linuxcare has published a review of mutt 1.0.1 as part of its App of the Week column.

Read the review!

-bneely

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