Mutt

Mutt is a free Client of transport in mode console for the systems Unix. It was created by Michael Elkins in 1995 and was published under license GNU LPG. It resembled Elm initially, but nowadays, the software which approaches some more would be Slrn.

Functionalities

Mutt supports several formats of electronic letter-boxes, in particular Maildir and Mbox. It also supports several protocols (of which POP3 and IMAP). It also offers the support of types MIME, in particular the type MIME PGP with which it is integrated very well.

Mutt is right a customer of email. It cannot thus send mails all alone. For that, it must communicate with a Mail transfer agent which uses the interface Sendmail.

It offers very thorough possibilities of configuration: there exist several hundreds of options of configuration and orders. It makes it possible to modify all the short cuts keyboards and to create macros for the complex actions. It also makes it possible to personalize the coloring and the fitting of the interface.

Mutt is used entirely with the keyboard, and supports wire of discussion, which facilitates displacement in the long discussions, such as one can find some in the mailing lists. The messages are composed with the text editor external defined by defect (contrary to Pine, which prefers Pico).

Slogan

The slogan of Mutt is “mutt sucks less”, which one can translate by “mutt is merdique”. The developers and the users of mutt claim that, although all the customers of mail have defects, mutt is that which has some less. The expression “Foo sucks less” became in the Computerese, a form of compliment.

Sven Guckes is the principal writer of documentation.

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • Official site
    • Wiki
  • Pages on Mutt in French French
  • Translation of the handbook of Mutt

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