The Mutt E-Mail Client
The Mutt E-Mail Client
"All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less." -me, circa 1995
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Mutt 2.3.1 was released on March 20, 2026. This is a bug-fix
release, fixing a build issue when configured --without-wc-funcs,
and a bug in the folder browser.
Mutt 2.3.0 was released on January 25, 2026. This release has new
features and bug fixes. See the
UPDATING
file, or for more details see
the
release notes
page.
Mutt 2.2.16 was released on November 22, 2025. This is a
bug-fix release, fixing a resource leak when compiled with
OpenSSL/LibreSSL, which could eventually result in new
connections failing.
Mutt 2.2.15 was released on October 2, 2025. This is a bug-fix
release, fixing an IMAP search/limit bug, a compilation issue,
and containing a workaround for gsasl SMTP authentication issues
with some MS servers. A few parts of the documentation were
also improved.
Mutt 2.2.14 was released on February 20, 2025. This is a
bug-fix release, fixing a couple possible crashes, in GPGME and
with IMAP when logging out, and correcting a small issue with
unnecessary encoding of "." in attachment names (2231 encoding).
Mutt 2.2.13 was released on March 9, 2024. This is a bug-fix
release, fixing a possible dangling pointer reference in the SMTP
client.
Mutt 2.2.12 was released on September 9, 2023. This is a
bug-fix release, fixing two crash bugs. One is possible by
viewing a crafted message header, so upgrading is strongly
recommended.
Mutt 2.2.11 was released on August 18, 2023. This is a bug-fix
release, fixing a build issue with GPGME on MacOS.
Mutt 2.2.10 was released on March 25, 2023. This is a bug-fix
release. It also changes message-id Base64 encoding to use a url-safe
version.
Mutt 2.2.9 was released on November 12, 2022. This is a bug-fix
release, fixing a build issue with recent GPGME releases.
Mutt 2.2.8 was released on November 5, 2022. This is a bug-fix
release, fixing a possible crash when using GPGME to view an
application/pgp key block. It also makes some changes to
resizing and window size logic, and enables batch-mode IMAP
Fcc'ing. See
the
UPDATING
file for more details.
Mutt 2.2.7 was released on August 7, 2022. This is a bug-fix
release, fixing a $edit_headers bug on MacOS, along with a few
other small bugs. It also tightens the $query_command parser to
accept a single tab between fields, and changes $pager to accept
a %s expando.
Mutt 2.2.6 was released on June 5, 2022. This is a bug-fix
release, fixing a variety of small issues.
Mutt 2.2.5 was released on May 16, 2022. This is a bug-fix
release, fixing two issues with libgsasl authentication.
Mutt 2.2.4 was released on April 30, 2022. This is a bug-fix
release, fixing some regressions with Maildir/mh mailbox path normalization
that were added in 2.2.0. Please see the
UPDATING
file for more details.
Mutt 2.2.3 was released on April 12, 2022. This is a bug-fix
release, addressing a buffer overread in the uuencoded decoder
(CVE-2022-1328), along with some other issues.
Mutt 2.2.2 was released on March 25, 2022. This is a bug-fix
release, fixing an issue with history categories, query-menu behavior,
and a couple other small issues.
Mutt 2.2.1 was released on February 19, 2022. This is a bug-fix
release, fixing an issue with header/body cache naming.
Mutt 2.2.0 was released on February 12, 2022. This release has new
features and bug fixes. See the
UPDATING
file, or for more details see
the
release notes
page.
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General Info
Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix
operating systems. The current stable public release version is
2.3.1. For more information, see the following:
Features
Documentation
Downloading
News
(releases, security alerts, etc.)
Wiki
Mailing Lists
IRC Channel
#mutt on
irc.libera.chat
Newsgroup
comp.mail.mutt
Issue Reporting
Developer Resources
GitLab project
. Includes
source code, wiki, and issue reporting.
The tickets from our old Trac system have been migrated into a
separate
GitLab repository
GitHub mirror
(Please don't create pull requests or issues here.)
Features
Some of Mutt's features include:
color support
message threading
MIME support (including RFC2047 support for encoded headers)
PGP/MIME (RFC2015)
various features to support mailing lists, including list-reply
active development community
POP3 support
IMAP support
full control of message headers when composing
support for multiple mailbox formats (mbox, MMDF, MH, maildir)
highly
customizable, including keybindings and macros
change configuration automatically based on recipients, current folder, etc.
searches using regular expressions, including an internal pattern matching language
Delivery Status Notification (DSN) support
postpone message composition indefinetly for later recall
easily include attachments when composing, even from the command line
ability to specify alternate addresses for recognition of mail forwarded from other accounts, with ability to set the From: headers on replies/etc. accordingly
multiple message tagging
reply to or forward multiple messages at once
.mailrc
style configuration files
easy to install (uses GNU autoconf)
compiles against either curses/ncurses or S-lang
translation into at least 20 languages
small and efficient
It's free!
(no cost and GPL'ed)
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." At
present, it most closely resembles the
SLRN
news client. Mutt was
originally written by
Michael Elkins
but is now
developed and maintained by the members of the Mutt development
mailing list
Documentation
From the
Releases
Stable (2.3.1):
Man Page
Manual:
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Text
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Recent Changes to Mutt
(please read if upgrading)
Release notes (starting with version 1.9)
Changes since the 1.4.x series
ChangeLog
From the
Wiki
Newbie Guide
FAQ
User Configs and Screenshots
Third Party Patches
Useful Add-Ons and Helper Programs
User Mutt Pages
From Other Sources:
Mutt overview for newbies
(maintained by Bruno Postle)
FAQ
(maintained by Felix von Leitner)
Mutt and IMAP
(maintained by Brendan Cully)
URL:
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