Mutt

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General Mutt documentation.

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Features
  3. Installing
  4. Configuration
  5. Help

Introduction

Mutt is a powerful command line email client. It supports both mbox and Maildir formats. The protocols supported include POP3 and IMAP. It was originally designed to be a Mail User Agent (MUA) and used to rely on Sendmail but support for sending mail was eventually added.

Features

  • Full MIME support, full PGP/GPG and S/MIME integration.
  • Message scoring and threading capabilities.
  • Mutt relies on external tools for composing and filtering messages.
  • Support for mail threading
  • Message composing is done using an external text editor of the users choice.
  • Keyboard Macros for performing complex functions
  • Extensible functions using patches

Installing

   1 sudo apt-get install mutt

Configuration

The default configuration file for each user will be looked for in the user's home directory

~/.muttrc

Help