Useful Mutt Resources and Links

• Mutt Home Page Mirrors
• International Mutt Pages
• General Mutt User Advocacy / Etc.
• Sample Configuration Files
• Mutt User Patches
• Mutt User Scripts and Add-Ons
• Mutt User Third Party Add-Ons
• Meta Resources
• Other Recommended Programs

Mutt Home Page Mirrors

• http://spite.com/mutt/ (Forrest Carpenter / Spite.com / Boston)
• http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/www.mutt.org/ (HEAnet / Ireland)
• http://www.swt.nu/mirrors/mutt/ (David Rohr / Sweden)
• http://mutt.mirror.widexs.nl/

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International Mutt Pages

• Im Eunjea
  • Korean Mutt users' group
  • Korean Mutt users' mailing list
  • Korean translation of the Mutt manual
• Les bonnes adresses: mutt (Thomas Parmelan)
  • French page about Mutt
• Mutt French Page (Virginie Vacca)
  • Another French page about Mutt
• Mutt - Sekarotuinen sähköpostiohjelma (Heikki Kantola)
  • Finnish page about Mutt
• TAKIZAWA Takashi
  • Japanese page about Mutt
• Antonio Fragola
  • Italian Mutt Howto
• Im Eunjea
  • Korean page about Mutt
• Sebastian Helms
  • German page about Mutt configs

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General Mutt User Advocacy / Etc.

• Felix von Leitner
  • Mutt FAQ
• Justin R. Miller
  • Mutt + GnuPG Howto
• Bruno Postle
  • "My First Mutt" -- overview for Mutt newbies
• Sven Guckes
  • Alternate manual
  • Lots of other stuff (somewhat outdated)
• Thomas Parmelan
  • Various Mutt related mirrors

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Sample Configuration (.muttrc, etc.) Files

• Automated WWW .muttrc builder (mahdi Nadir)

Mutt's entry at dotfiles.com.

These are maintained by their respective authors. Some are more current than others.

• Roland Rosenfeld
• Stefan 'Sec' Zehl
• Dave Pearson
• Robert Ollivier
• Sven Guckes
• Felix von Leitner
• Anders Nordby
• Rich Lafferty
• Telsa Gwynne (especially for newbies)
• Gabriel Zachmann (vim/slrn-like keybindings)
• Chris Gushue
• Tim Waugh
• Ailbhe Leamy
• Suresh Ramasubramanian
• Cedric Duval
• Han (especially for qmail/maildir)
• Michael Elkins

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Mutt User Patches

These are listed for your convenience only. Use at your own risk.

• Roland Rosenfeld
  • Compressed Folders Patch
• Michael Elkins
  • Maildir header caching patch
  • mailbox aliases patch
• Cedric Duval
  • Editing threads patch
  • Trash folder patch
  • Signatures directory patch
• Oliver Ehli
  • S/MIME through OpenSSL patch
• Shane Wegener
  • PGP for Outlook compatability patch
• David Champion
  • Custom X-Label message tagging patch
  • Attachment-counting patch
  • Nested if-else sequences in format strings patch
  • Pattern matching for known aliases patch
  • Message mark patch
• Vsevolod Volkov
  • patch.nntp
  • patch.initials
  • patch.quote
  • etc.
• Nicolas Rachinsky
  • patch.tag_prefix_cond
  • patch.color-questions
• Vincent Lefevre
  • Narrow tree patch
• Aaron Schrab
  • patch.date_optional
  • patch.mark_old
  • patch.parent_match
• Dale Woolridge
  • pgp-hook autoconfirm patch
  • pgp auto key selection patch
  • mbox-hook printf sequence support patch
• Byrial's Patch Collection (Byrial Jensen)
  • patch.status-time
  • patch.my_hdr_subject
  • patch.ed_mtime
  • patch.current_shortcut
  • patch.hash_destroy
• Mutt 'Code Bloat' Patches (Stefan 'Sec' Zehl)
  • patch.pager_status_on_top
  • patch.score_auto
  • patch.expand_hook
  • patch.mailcap_fix
  • patch.condense_pgp
  • etc.
• Ken Weingold
  • blank-line.patch
• Neil Townsend
  • patch.xtitles
• John Levon
  • List-reply fallback patch
• Robert Vojta
  • Multiple columns patch
• Kim DeVaughn
  • flag_text patch
• Brian Salter-Duke
  • Additional MIME types patches
  • Mutt for chemists patches
• Karol Bryd
  • alternate address book patch
  • NNTP support patch
• Mikko Hänninen
  • patch.rcvdformat
• Mutt Insanity (Brandon Long)
  • NNTP mailbox patch
• Orjan Stromberg
  • Another NNTP patch

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Mutt User Scripts and Add-Ons

These scripts/etc. were written to make reading mail with Mutt easier, either by aiding in converting from a lesser mailer or by aiding in dealing with odd types of mails/etc.

• Mutt's /contrib/ dir
  • urlview -- Launch lynx, etc. for http:// and ftp:// URLs in mails
• Brian Salter-Duke
  • urlview extensions
• Roland Rosenfeld
  • Little Brother Database -- Several tools to aid in alias collection and address queries
  • Metamutt -- A Metamail replacement
• Rob Reid
  • randsig1.pl, etc. -- Info on using random sigs with Mutt
• Mutt Insanity (Brandon Long)
  • External address query Scripts
  • Autoview programs
• mail2muttalias.py -- Get email addresses from an email message and write them to an alias file for Mutt
• Dave Pearson
  • mutt.octet.filter (bash script)
  • mutt.vcard.filter (perl script)
  • muttrc2html (perl script) -- Convert .muttrc to HTML
• Robert Ollivier
  • mutt_conv.pl -- Convert Elm's aliases.text for Mutt
• AWACS Software
  • view-octet -- View attachments with non-descript MIME types
• Rich's Mutt Page
  • running dog mail notification icons for WMMail
  • PH server address query script
• Jaakko Heinonen
  • abook (external ncurses address book program for use with Mutt)
• Mikko Hänninen
  • checkalias.pl -- check Mutt alias defintions from the command line
  • mailroute.pl -- pretty-print message Received headers
• Christian Boesgaard
  • pine2mutt_aliases.pl -- convert Pine address book to Mutt aliases
• Bernhard Walle
  • muttprint -- LaTeX format messages for printing
• David Champion
  • Directory lookups in Qi/Ph
• Gary Johnson
  • Various scripts and docs on viewing MIME attachments of various types, etc.
• Nicolas Rachinsky
  • old2new.pl -- convert status "old" messages to "new" messages (Maildir only)
• Darxus
  • mutt-sigtrace.pl -- make GPG output include signature trust path information

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Mutt User Third Party Add-Ons

These are patches and add-ons to third party programs that may be useful when using Mutt as a MUA.

• Brian Winters
  • muttzilla -- use Mutt to catch Netscape mailto: URLs
• Rob Reid
  • post.el -- Mutt mode for Emacs
• Dave Pearson
  • muttrc.sl -- Mutt mode for Jed
  • mutt-alias.el -- Emacs functions for working with Mutt aliases
• Jeremy Blosser
  • 0.8.x Eterm menu for Mutt (old)
• Jan Ingvoldstad
  • Using Mutt with Emacs and Emacsclient
• Rich Roth
  • S-Lang language patch for Mutt
  • Net-Pim application for Mutt/S-Lang
  • Freshmeat newsletter utility for Mutt/S-Lang
• Snaggens small hacks
  • Mutt as mail reader with Netscape > 4
• Gero Treuner
  • gpg-2comp -- wrapper for GPG for better compatibility with PGP 2.6.x

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Meta Resources

The following may be useful when compiling Mutt.

• SGML Tools (for building the Mutt manual from source)
• ncurses (screen handling functions library)
• S-Lang (screen handling functions library and programming language, alternative to curses/ncurses)
• libiconv (charset support, required for newer Mutt versions if your libc doesn't already have it)

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Other Recommended Programs

Mutt is an MUA. It is not an MTA or an MDA or a text editor or an HTML viewer or a news reader or a kitchen sink. It adheres to the Un*x philosophy of many tools, each with a given purpose, aka "do one thing and do it well". The following programs may be useful in putting together a full Un*x mail system. This list is not meant to be complete, it mostly just mentions the most popular choices and any known extremly minimalist ones.

• Mail filtering: Procmail
• SMTP:
  • qmail
  • Sendmail
  • Exim
  • Postfix
  • sSMTP (extremely minimalist, send only)
  • Nullmailer
  • launchmail
• POP3/etc. mail retrieval:
  • Fetchmail
  • getmail
• Mail encryption and signing:
  • PGP
  • GnuPG
  • OpenSSL
• Viewing HTML mails: (call either seamlessly from Mutt using urlview)
  • Lynx
  • Links
• X display of new mail: XBuffy / GBuffy
• Secure shells / port forwarding: OpenSSH

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