General Mutt documentation.

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 configuration file ~/.muttrc will be used for each users. If it is not present, then the global config file /etc/Muttrc will be used.

~$ touch ~/.muttrc
~$ sudo chmod 600 ~/.muttrc
~$ nano ~/.muttrc

###
# User info
###

set realname = "alice"
set from = "alice.sub@email.com"
set use_from = no
set envelope_from ="yes"

mailboxes imap://mail.com
set folder="imap://mail.com/INBOX"  
set imap_user="alice" #your IMAP user name or login
set imap_pass="mysecret" #your IMAP password


# If not set in ~/.bashrc:
set spoolfile = /var/mail/alice

Help

• http://wiki.mutt.org/index.cgi?MuttGuide

• http://www.therandymon.com/woodnotes/mutt/using-mutt.html

• http://mutt.blackfish.org.uk/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutt_(e-mail_client)

• http://www.andrews-corner.org/mutt.html ( Mutt + Gmail )

• https://we.riseup.net/riseup+volunteers/how-to-use-mutt-to-access-your-riseup-mail ( Mutt + riseup )