The Mutt E-Mail Client

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

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Development

Mutt 1.5.14 was released on February 23, 2007. This version is a snapshot of the recent development activity. See the ChangeLog for details.

Mutt 1.5.13 was released on August 14, 2006. This version is a snapshot of the recent development activity. See the ChangeLog for details.

Mutt 1.5.12 was released on July 14, 2006. This version is a snapshot of the recent development activity and also fixes CVE-2006-3242. See the ChangeLog for details.

Stable

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.

Mutt 1.4.2 was released on February 11, 2004. This version fixes a buffer overflow that can be triggered by incoming messages. There are reports about spam that has actually triggered this problem and crashed mutt. It is recommended that users of mutt versions prior to 1.4.2 upgrade to this version, or apply the patch included below. Users of "unstable" mutt versions after 1.3.28 (including 1.5.*) do not need to upgrade, as this problem had been fixed in the unstable branch in February 2002; unfortunately, the fix was not backported before 1.4 was released.

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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 1.4.2.2; the current development release version is 1.5.14. For more information, see the following:

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

• Mailing Lists
• IRC Channel: #mutt on irc.freenode.net
• Newsgroup: comp.mail.mutt

• 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 (1.4.2.2):
  • Man Page
  • Manual: HTML (gzipped) | Text (gzipped)
  • Recent Changes to Mutt (please read if upgrading)
  • Using Mutt with GnuPG/PGP
  • ChangeLog
• Devel (1.5.14):
  • 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:

• Newbie Guide
• FAQ
• Screenshots
• User Config File Samples
• Third Party Patches
• Useful Add-Ons and Helper Programs
• User Mutt Pages

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 February 28, 2007 by Jeremy Blosser.
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