Mutt

A small but powerful terminal-based email client.

Mutt is a small but powerful terminal-based email client. It reads mail from local mailboxes (mbox, Maildir) or remote IMAP/POP3 servers, lets you read, compose, and thread messages from a keyboard-driven terminal interface, and integrates with external tools (msmtp/sendmail for outgoing mail, vim or emacs for composition, GnuPG for signing/encryption).

Michael Elkins started Mutt in 1995. The companion NeoMutt fork, started in 2014, adds notmuch integration, sidebars, encrypted folder hooks, and a number of other quality-of-life features while remaining largely compatible with mutt configurations. Many users now run NeoMutt rather than the original Mutt.

Mutt has retained a loyal user base of programmers, sysadmins, and academics who do most of their work in a terminal. The combination of vim-style navigation, fast threading, and the "each component does one thing" Unix design (Mutt for reading, msmtp for sending, isync/mbsync for IMAP fetch, GnuPG for crypto) suits users who want full control of every layer of their mail setup.

License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Category: Communication

Website: http://www.mutt.org/

Install

Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt install mutt
Fedora/RHEL:   sudo dnf install mutt
Arch:          sudo pacman -S mutt
macOS:         brew install mutt

Authors

Michael Elkins (creator)
Mutt and NeoMutt teams

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