General Mutt [[http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/|documentation]].

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= 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 =

{{{#!highlight bash
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 )