Mutt is a Unix mail user agent for experts. I switched to Mutt from Pine quite some time ago, and haven’t turned back since; even then, I still keep discovering new and useful features in Mutt. I’ll leave you to find your way to Mutt’s home page to find out how great Mutt is; what’s here is some little bits I’ve put together, along with the requisite Useful Links.
My Mutt Stuff
- Here’s my .muttrc file.
- This Perl program, muttph, lets
you query a PH server for email addresses. There are a handful more on Brandon Long’s mutt page, but none of them did what I wanted elegantly. - If you use the WMMail WindowMaker mail-notification dock app, then you can use these icons to display an animated running dog just like the one above, whenever you get new mail.
- Occasionally people complain that they don’t want to run sendmail just to send mail with mutt. Those that don’t grok the idea that sendmail doesn’t need to run as a daemon to send mail can use this short Perl program as their local MTA. The brighter ones just install ssmtp, which is a send-only sendmail replacement.
- When I run mutt, it looks like this.
Other Mutt Stuff
- “All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less,” says Mutt’s author. Find out why.
- RTFFAQ.
- And RTFM!
- Sven Guckes is a Mutt
fanatic. - Felix Leitner is also a Mutt
fanatic, and maintains the FAQ, which you’ve already read,
right? - Experience the Mutt community yourself:
- Mutt’s mailing lists, and their
archive. - The Mutt newsfroup.
- Mutt’s mailing lists, and their
Last updated 2000-07-17 by Rich Lafferty