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

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Mutt 1.5.21 was released on September 15, 2010. The most notable user-visible change (aside from bug fixes) is the new $mail_check_recent flag to partially address NewMailHandling (the major blocker for 1.6). It also contains a larger than usual number of bug fixes, thanks to the long time between releases. More details.

Mutt 1.5.20 was released on June 14, 2009. This release contains an enormous number of bugfixes, and several high-level changes.

Mutt 1.5.19 was released on January 5, 2009. This is mostly a bugfix release on the long road to 1.6.

We're still in feature freeze (mostly) for 1.6. The list of items blocking the release of mutt 1.6 may be found here: http://dev.mutt.org/trac/milestone/1.6 Patches for any issues found there would be greatly appreciated.

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 1.5.21. 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 (1.4.2.3):

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

Devel (1.5.21):

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)

[Mutt Mail Agent Button] Last updated on September 15, 2010 by Jeremy Blosser.
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