Talk:Mutt (email client)

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Disclosure: While I have seen people use "foo sucks less", it could be just a local phenomenon. I'd best use google at some point to see if it's mainstream. Kim Bruning 09:56, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * Looks good to me. Lupin 18:04, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

MUTT is a mail reading program for UNIX. It is a gift from the gods. It replaces the aging elm with better features but retains the fast and efficient interface. It is _not_ like pine, which forces one to wade through screens of menus before one can begin reading mail.

For true satisfaction and glory, combine Mutt with Vim, the modern version of vi.

NNTP
> Mutt supports most mail formats (notably both mbox and Maildir) and protocols (POP3, IMAP, NNTP etc). Does mutt really support NNTP natively ? I think tou need a patch for that.

How to convert attachments formatted with MicroSoft to plain ASCII text
In mutt how do you convert attachments formatted with MicroSoft to plain ASCII text?...
 * That is not a function of the mailer. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 21:25, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Documentation
I do not think that "Sven Guckes is the creator of the documentation." is strictly accurate, although Sven has written a lot of good and interesting stuff.Bduke 11:10, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Interface
Is it worth mentioning that the text mode UI is useful for people who read mail on a remote server via SSH? Pjc51 10:54, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

smtp support
Mutt is a pure Mail User Agent (MUA) and cannot send e-mail in isolation

That's no longer true I'd say. As of 1.5.16, mutt sports a simple smtp solution, reflected by the muttrc setting 'set smtp_url=...'
 * From 1.5.15 I think. --Bduke 11:55, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it uses the esmtp library to have a built-in SMTP server. --ThomasAdam 19:13, 16 August 2007 (BST) ThomasAdam 18:14, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

acronym expansion
Does anyone know if MUTT is an acronym? If not, why does this email client have this weird name? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.161.12.244 (talk) 13:05, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

"Though written from scratch, Mutt's initial interface was based largely on the ELM mail client. To a large extent, Mutt is still very ELM-like in presentation of information in menus (and in fact, ELM users will find it quite painless to switch as the default key bindings are identical). As development progressed, features found in other popular clients such as PINE and MUSH have been added, the result being a hybrid, or "mutt."" - http://www.mutt.org/#features —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.208.49.200 (talk) 21:45, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Mutt screenshot
The current mutt's screenshot shows a link that leads to a pornographic website. Should it be removed? --213.140.19.123 (talk) 00:26, 19 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Fortunately, this URL is not pornographic per se (i.e. it does not contain ASCII art porn or other arousing material), and URLs in images are not clickable, and that server went offline in the meantime. So let us just leave this screenshot where it is – it is a fine example of Mutt's safe handling of spam and phishing e-mails by converting HTML to plain text. --Thüringer ☼ (talk) 20:38, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

"Developed by Brendan Cully"?
The article says Developed by: Brendan Cully. According to the change history, this guy "released" one recent version. But the man page of my version (1.5.13, late 2006) says Author: Michael Elkins, and others and the documentation lists seven people having copyright: (Michael R. Elkins, Brandon Long, Thomas Roessler, Werner Koch, Brendan Cully, Tommi Komulainen, and Edmund Grimley Evans). So — should the article be changed? JöG (talk) 13:53, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes, Brendan Cully is currently coordinating the mutt effort. Thomas Roessler did that for a long time. It was first started by Michael R. Elkins. --Bduke (talk) 22:52, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Worse is better
What is this link for? Is mutt the cardinal example? I am inclined to remove it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guacamel (talk • contribs) 17:53, 7 February 2010 (UTC)


 * It was added by Special:Contributions/24.91.16.229, pointing out that mutt does not send mail by itself Tedickey (talk) 18:01, 7 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Not sending mail by itself is an example of "do one thing and do it well", not of "worse is better". What is the connection? Guacamel (talk) 23:52, 7 February 2010 (UTC)


 * If the see-also is removed, the related paragraph in the "Operation" section might be amended Tedickey (talk) 00:07, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

I'm likewise inclined to remove the Worse is Better bit. "Worse Is Better" is a useful idea in analyzing software ecology dynamics, but in this case it just appears to be there to slight Mutt. Jonabbey (talk) 00:39, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

I agree, and of course mutt does now send mail by itself. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  09:40, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

elm-like interface
That needs a reliable source, preferably with a screenshot to show that the interface has radically changed. Elm's interface is quite different, though it's possible that the initial version of Mutt may have looked similar. TEDickey (talk) 13:12, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

For example, the oldest version mutt 0.93.1 on ftp://ftp.mutt.org/mutt/historic/ (1998) looks the same as current mutt: a full-screen, colored, threaded interface. That's unlike elm's nonthreaded monochrome interface (reminiscent of rn). TEDickey (talk) 00:13, 8 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Oops, I have "moved" the discussion of this point here by accident. Richiez (talk) 18:19, 18 December 2010 (UTC)


 * It should have been here (and no specific points were made in my talk-page, nor was any useful response to this comment found there) TEDickey (talk) 23:31, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Thinking about it there should be a history section, it is useful for people to understand what the major influences and evolution was but today's mutt indeed looks differently. Richiez (talk) 12:22, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

IMAP
At this point, after some hours of research, it looks like Mutt is not really full IMAP-capable, but only to access pre-told folders. --Itu (talk) 14:48, 31 May 2018 (UTC)