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<h1>The Mutt E-Mail Client</h1> | |
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"All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less." -me, circa 1995 | |
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<a href="http://www.mutt.org/links.html#mirrors">mirrors</a> | |
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</p><h2>Latest News</h2> | |
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Mutt 1.3.28 was released on March 13, 2002. This is a <strong>release | |
candidate</strong> for 1.4. | |
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Mutt 1.2.5.1 and 1.3.25 were released on January 1, 2002. These releases both | |
fix a <strong>security hole</strong> which can be remotely exploited. For more | |
information, see the | |
<a href="http://www.mutt.org/announce/mutt-1.2.5.1-1.3.25.html">release announcement</a>. | |
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Mutt 1.3.24 was released on November 30, 2001. This is a <strong>beta</strong> | |
development release toward the next stable public release version. There have | |
been several large changes since 1.2.x, so please check the | |
<a href="http://www.mutt.org/changes.html">recent changes page</a>. | |
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The Mutt CVS server has <strong>moved</strong> from ftp.guug.de to ftp.mutt.org. | |
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<a href="http://www.mutt.org/news.html">more news</a> | |
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</p><h2>General Info</h2> | |
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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 | |
<strong>release candidate</strong> for 1.4. The current stable public release | |
version is 1.2.5.1. For more information, see the following: | |
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</p><ul><li><a href="#features">Features</a> | |
</li><li><a href="http://www.mutt.org/screenshots/">Screenshots</a> | |
</li><li>Documentation | |
<ul><li><a href="http://www.fefe.de/muttfaq/faq">FAQ</a> | |
(maintained by Felix von Leitner) | |
</li><li><a href="http://www.mutt.org/doc/man_page.html">Man Page</a> | |
</li><li>Manual | |
<ul><li><a href="http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/">HTML</a> | |
(<a href="http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual.html.tar.gz">gzipped</a>) | |
</li><li><a href="http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual.txt">Text</a> | |
(<a href="http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual.txt.gz">gzipped</a>) | |
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</li><li><a href="http://www.mutt.org/changes.html">Recent Changes to Mutt</a> | |
(please read if upgrading) | |
</li><li><a href="http://www.mutt.org/links.html#config">Sample Configuration (.muttrc, etc.) Files</a> | |
</li><li><a href="http://mutt.sourceforge.net/imap/">Mutt and IMAP</a> | |
(maintained by Brendan Cully) | |
</li><li>Using Mutt with GPG/PGP | |
<ul><li><a href="http://www.mutt.org/doc/PGP-Notes.txt">Official Mutt doc</a> | |
(included in the release) | |
</li><li><a href="http://codesorcery.net/mutt/mutt-gnupg-howto">Alternate version</a> | |
(for PGP/GPG newbies, by Justin R. Miller) | |
</li><li><a href="http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Mutt-GnuPG-PGP-HOWTO.html">Alternate version</a> | |
(from the LDP) | |
</li></ul> | |
</li><li><a href="http://mutt.blackfish.org.uk/">Mutt overview for newbies</a> | |
(maintained by Bruno Postle) | |
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</li><li><a href="http://www.mutt.org/download.html">Downloading</a> | |
</li><li><a href="http://www.mutt.org/news.html">News</a> (releases, security alerts, etc.) | |
</li><li><a href="http://bugs.guug.de/db/pa/lmutt.html">Current Reported Bugs</a> | |
</li><li><a href="#discuss">User Discussion</a> | |
(mailing lists, newsgroups, IRC, etc.) | |
</li><li><a href="http://www.mutt.org/links.html">Links</a> (user advocacy, international pages, | |
user contributed docs, patches, scripts, add-ons, other recommended | |
programs, etc.) | |
</li><li><a href="#press">What Other People Are Saying About Mutt</a> (press) | |
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<img src="The%20Mutt%20E-Mail%20Client_files/mutt_button.gif" alt="[Mutt Mail Agent Button]" border="0" width="88" height="31"> | |
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</p><h2><a name="features">Features</a></h2> | |
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Some of Mutt's features include: | |
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</p><ul><li>color support | |
</li><li>message threading | |
</li><li>MIME support (including RFC2047 support for encoded headers) | |
</li><li>PGP/MIME (RFC2015) | |
</li><li>various features to support mailing lists, including list-reply | |
</li><li>active development community | |
</li><li>POP3 support | |
</li><li>IMAP support | |
</li><li>full control of message headers when composing | |
</li><li>support for multiple mailbox formats (mbox, MMDF, MH, maildir) | |
</li><li><strong>highly</strong> customizable, including keybindings and macros | |
</li><li>change configuration automatically based on recipients, current | |
folder, etc. | |
</li><li>searches using regular expressions, including an internal pattern | |
matching language | |
</li><li>Delivery Status Notification (DSN) support | |
</li><li>postpone message composition indefinetly for later recall | |
</li><li>easily include attachments when composing, even from the command line | |
</li><li>ability to specify alternate addresses for recognition of mail | |
forwarded from other accounts, with ability to set the From: headers | |
on replies/etc. accordingly | |
</li><li>multiple message tagging | |
</li><li>reply to or forward multiple messages at once | |
</li><li><i>.mailrc</i> style configuration files | |
</li><li>easy to install (uses GNU autoconf) | |
</li><li>compiles against either curses/ncurses or S-lang | |
</li><li>translation into at least 20 languages | |
</li><li>small and efficient | |
</li><li><em>It's free!</em> (no cost and GPL'ed) | |
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<a href="http://www.mutt.org/screenshots/">Screenshots</a> demonstrating some of Mutt's | |
capabilities are available. | |
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Though written from scratch, Mutt's initial interface was based largely on the | |
<a href="http://www.myxa.com/elm.html">ELM</a> 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 <a href="http://space.mit.edu/%7Edavis/slrn.html">SLRN</a> news client. Mutt was | |
originally written by <a href="http://www.cs.hmc.edu/%7Eme/">Michael Elkins</a> | |
but is now developed and maintained by the members of the Mutt development | |
<a href="#discuss">mailing list</a>. | |
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</p><h2><a name="discuss">Mutt User Discussion</a></h2> | |
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</p><ul><li>Mailing Lists | |
<ul><li>mutt-announce@mutt.org -- Announcements. | |
</li><li><a href="mailto:mutt-users@mutt.org">mutt-users@mutt.org</a> | |
-- General Discussion. | |
</li><li><a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mutt-users">mutt-users Archive</a> | |
(AIMS) | |
</li><li><a href="http://mail-archive.com/mutt-users%40mutt.org/">mutt-users Archive</a> | |
(mail-archive.com) | |
</li><li><a href="http://www.egroups.com/group/mutt-users/">mutt-users Archive</a> | |
(Egroups) | |
</li><li><a href="mailto:mutt-dev@mutt.org">mutt-dev@mutt.org</a> -- | |
Development Community. | |
</li><li><a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mutt-dev">mutt-dev Archive</a> | |
(AIMS) | |
</li><li><a href="http://www.egroups.com/group/mutt-dev/">mutt-dev Archive</a> | |
(Egroups) | |
</li><li><a href="mailto:mutt-po@mutt.org">mutt-po@mutt.org</a> -- | |
Translation Issues. | |
</li><li><a href="http://www.mutt.org/mail-lists.html">Subscribe to the lists through this web site</a>. | |
(You need to be subscribed to the lists to post to them.) | |
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</p></li><li>Newsgroup | |
<ul><li><a href="news://comp.mail.mutt/">comp.mail.mutt</a> | |
</li><li><a href="http://www.deja.com/dnquery.xp?query=%7Eg%20comp.mail.mutt">comp.mail.mutt Archive</a> | |
(Deja.com) | |
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</p></li><li>IRC -- Channel #mutt on | |
<a href="http://www.openprojects.net/irc_servers.shtml/">irc.openprojects.net</a> | |
</li></ul> | |
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</p><h2><a name="press">Press About Mutt</a></h2> | |
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</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Administration/Mutt/page1.html">A Man And His Mutt</a> | |
-- <a href="http://www.devshed.com/">Developer Shed</a> | |
</li><li><a href="http://www.linuxnovice.org/main_software.php3?VIEW=VIEW&t_id=146">Mutt: An e-mail user's best friend -- Part One</a> | |
-- <a href="http://www.linuxnovice.org/">LinuxNovice.org</a>. | |
<a href="http://www.linuxnovice.org/main_software.php3?VIEW=VIEW&t_id=164">Part Two</a> | |
</li><li><a href="http://www.linuxcare.com/viewpoints/ap-of-the-wk/03-31-00.epl">Mutt</a> -- Mutt was the app of the week at | |
<a href="http://www.linuxcare.com/">Linuxcare</a>. | |
</li><li><a href="http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-12/lw-12-mutt.html">Man's Best Friend</a> | |
-- <a href="http://www.linuxworld.com/">Linux World</a>. | |
</li><li><a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/199812/mutt&page=1">Mutt: A Unix Mailer for Experts</a> | |
-- an article from | |
<a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/">32BitsOnline</a>. | |
</li><li><a href="http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue14/mutt.html">The Mutt Mailer</a> | |
-- an (old) article from the | |
<a href="http://www.ssc.com/lg/">Linux Gazette</a>. | |
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<address>Last updated on March 13, 2002 by | |
<a href="http://jblosser.firinn.org/">Jeremy Blosser</a>. | |
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