The Mutt E-Mail Client

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

Latest News

CVS

Development

Mutt 1.5.17 was released on November 1, 2007. This is a collection of bugfixes since the last release, as we stabilize the code for a 1.6 release. For those who are interested, the work left before 1.6 can be found here: http://dev.mutt.org/trac/milestone/1.6

Mutt 1.5.16 was released on June 9, 2007. This release is largely a bug-fix release, but it does contain a couple of small new features (next-unread-mailbox, $message_cache_clean).

Stable

Mutt 1.4.2.3 was released on June 9, 2007. This release fixes CVE-2007-2683 (gecos overflow) and CVE-2007-1558 (APOP MD5 collision attack).

Mutt 1.4.2.2 was released on July 14, 2006. This release fixes CVE-2006-3242, a buffer overflow that could be triggered by a malicious IMAP server.

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General Info

Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems. The current stable public release version is 1.4.2.3; the current development release version is 1.5.17. For more information, see the following:

Features
Documentation
Downloading
News (releases, security alerts, etc.)
Wiki

Bug Reporting System
Developer Resources (viewcvs, CVS commits RSS feed, etc.)

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)

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.

Documentation

From the Releases:

Stable (1.4.2.3):
- Man Page
- Manual: HTML (gzipped) | Text (gzipped)
- Recent Changes to Mutt (please read if upgrading)
- Using Mutt with GnuPG/PGP
- ChangeLog
Devel (1.5.17):
- Manual: HTML (gzipped) | Text (gzipped)
- Recent Changes to Mutt (please read if upgrading)
- ChangeLog
CVS:
- Manual: HTML | Text
- Recent Changes to Mutt (please read if upgrading)
- ChangeLog

From the Wiki:

From Other Sources:

Mutt overview for newbies (maintained by Bruno Postle)
FAQ (maintained by Felix von Leitner)
Mutt and IMAP (maintained by Brendan Cully)

Last updated on November 4, 2007 by Jeremy Blosser.
URL:<http://www.mutt.org/index.html>
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