Mutt supports most mail storing formats (notably both mbox and Maildir) and protocols (POP3, IMAP, etc.). It also includes MIME support, notably full PGP/GPG and S/MIME integration.
Mutt was originally designed as a Mail User Agent (MUA) and relied on locally accessible mailbox and sendmail infrastructure. According to the Mutt homepage "though written from scratch, Mutt's initial interface was based largely on the ELM mail client". New to Mutt were message scoring and threading capabilities. Support for fetching and sending email via various protocols such as POP3, IMAP and SMTP was added later. However, Mutt still relies on external tools for composing and filtering messages.
Mutt has hundreds of configuration directives and commands. It allows for changing all the key bindings and making keyboard macros for complex actions, as well as the colors and the layout of most of the interface. Through variants of a concept known as "hooks", many of its settings can be changed based on criteria such as current mailbox or outgoing message recipients. Mutt supports an optional sidebar, similar to those often found in graphical mail clients. There are also many patches and extensions available that add functionality, such as NNTP support.
Mutt is fully controlled with the keyboard, and has support for mail conversation threading, meaning one can easily move around long discussions such as in mailing lists. New messages are composed with an external text editor, unlike pine, which embeds its own editor known as pico.
Mutt is capable of efficiently searching mail stores by calling on mail indexing tools such as Notmuch,[6][7] and many people recommend Mutt be used this way.[8] Alternatively, users can search their mail stores from Mutt by calling grep via a Bash script.[9]
mutt, email, client, mutt, text, based, email, client, unix, like, systems, originally, written, michael, elkins, 1995, released, under, general, public, license, version, later, version, muttmutt, actionoriginal, author, michael, elkinsdeveloper, kevin, mccar. Mutt is a text based email client for Unix like systems It was originally written by Michael Elkins in 1995 and released under the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version 4 MuttMutt in actionOriginal author s Michael ElkinsDeveloper s Kevin McCarthyInitial release1995 28 years ago 1995 Stable release2 2 9 1 2 12 November 2022Repositorygitlab wbr com wbr muttmua wbr mutt wbr gitWritten inC 3 Operating systemCross platformTypeEmail clientLicenseGPL 2 0 or later 4 Websitewww wbr mutt wbr orgThe Mutt slogan is All mail clients suck This one just sucks less 5 Contents 1 Operation 2 See also 3 References 4 External linksOperation EditMutt supports most mail storing formats notably both mbox and Maildir and protocols POP3 IMAP etc It also includes MIME support notably full PGP GPG and S MIME integration Mutt was originally designed as a Mail User Agent MUA and relied on locally accessible mailbox and sendmail infrastructure According to the Mutt homepage though written from scratch Mutt s initial interface was based largely on the ELM mail client New to Mutt were message scoring and threading capabilities Support for fetching and sending email via various protocols such as POP3 IMAP and SMTP was added later However Mutt still relies on external tools for composing and filtering messages Mutt has hundreds of configuration directives and commands It allows for changing all the key bindings and making keyboard macros for complex actions as well as the colors and the layout of most of the interface Through variants of a concept known as hooks many of its settings can be changed based on criteria such as current mailbox or outgoing message recipients Mutt supports an optional sidebar similar to those often found in graphical mail clients There are also many patches and extensions available that add functionality such as NNTP support Mutt is fully controlled with the keyboard and has support for mail conversation threading meaning one can easily move around long discussions such as in mailing lists New messages are composed with an external text editor unlike pine which embeds its own editor known as pico Mutt is capable of efficiently searching mail stores by calling on mail indexing tools such as Notmuch 6 7 and many people recommend Mutt be used this way 8 Alternatively users can search their mail stores from Mutt by calling grep via a Bash script 9 Mutt is often used by security professionals or security conscious users because of its smaller attack surface compared with other clients that ship with a web browser rendering engine or a JavaScript interpreter 10 In relation to Transport Layer Security Mutt can be configured to trust certificates on first use and not to use older less secure versions of the Transport Layer Security protocol 11 See also Edit Free and open source software portalComparison of email clients Text based email clientReferences Edit http www mutt org retrieved 14 November 2022 mutt 2 2 9 released author name string Kevin J McCarthy publication date 12 November 2022 retrieved 14 November 2022 The mutt Open Source Project on Ohloh Languages Page Retrieved 2013 03 22 a b COPYRIGHT file Archived from the original on 2016 03 05 Retrieved 2016 04 08 either version 2 of the License or at your option any later version Elkins Michael R Blosser Jeremy 2008 06 08 The Mutt E Mail Client Retrieved 2008 06 08 notmuch mutt notmuchmail org Retrieved 2018 11 22 Searchingmail Wiki Mutt Project mutt GitLab Retrieved 2018 11 22 Lunduke Bryan 2016 07 06 Who needs a GUI How to live in a Linux terminal Network World Retrieved 2020 01 13 Rankin Kyle 2008 12 01 Hack and Mutt and Virtual Folders Linux Journal Retrieved 2016 11 23 Why Security Experts Are Using an Ancient Email Format in 2015 2020 01 13 Retrieved 2015 09 07 GPG Mutt Gmail Retrieved 2015 09 14 External links EditOfficial website NeoMutt a fork of Mutt with added features Historical Mutt homepage including ancient Changelogs at the Wayback Machine archived January 26 1997 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Mutt email client amp oldid 1136420548, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
