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Mutt is a console based Mail User Agent that allows one to send and receive plaintext or even encrypted mail via either its MIME or PGP implementations. It also has POP3 and IMAP support so that popular services such as Gmail can be used with it. It has an infinitely configurable rc file that can be tailored to suit most of its users requirements.

Mutt is a console based mail client for Unix-based clients (such as Linux) that has been developed since 1995. Its original developer, Michael Elkins, declared at the time that:

"All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less."

This has remained the Mutt slogan ever since with the most recent release, Mutt 1.5.23, released on March 12, 2014. Configuration can be a little complex, some of the following links should be useful for this:

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"SASL authentication failed" with mutt and Gmail, why?

I am confused by this, I have installed a lot of new packages and followed some tutorials after googling but I keep getting this kind of SASL -error. I am not sure whether the mistake is in some Gmail settings or should I check some settings in…
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How to manage multiple imap accounts with mutt

I love mutt, and the mutt version shipped with Ubuntu is awesome (it even has a patched version), the only caveat I've found so far it's that I had not been able to manage several imap accounts at the same time. Currently my mutt setup looks like…
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How do I install mutt 1.7.0 on Xenial or Trusty?

My favorite command line email client has a big new version. Mutt version 1.7.0 has been released on August 18th 2016 and among other changes and improvements the developers have merged the very useful 'sidebar' patch. I am very keen to come to…
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Migrate from Thunderbird to Mutt

I am contemplating moving from Thunderbird to Mutt (provided it is feasible) to move to a faster, simpler application. My current Thunderbird set-up consists of multiple IMAP accounts (gmail and google apps). Only selected folders (read labels) in…
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How to change my the From: address in mutt?

When I use mutt under Ubuntu like below, my email address is shown as maemo@maemo-TomXue. I want to change it but didn't find how to do, who could help me? Thanks! y:Send q:Abort t:To c:CC s:Subj a:Attach file d:Descrip ?:Help From: maemo…
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How do I integrate gpg with the GNOME keyring?

I use Mutt for gpg-signed email. With previous versions of Ubuntu I could tell Mutt to use gnome-gpg, which would ask for my GPG passphrase with a GUI window and then store it my GNOME keyring for 24 hours or until logout, whichever came first. …
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gnome-keyring error sending email in mutt

here is my .msmtprc : defaults account gmail host smtp.gmail.com from yy@gmail.com port 587 auth on tls on tls_starttls on tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt user yy@gmail.com password xxxxxxxx logfile…
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Mutt not working due to "gnutls_handshake: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received." error

I am expecting lots of problem trying to make mutt work in Ubuntu 12.04. Here is my .muttrc : http://paste.ubuntu.com/1273585/ Here is the bug I am getting when i tried to connect. gnutls_handshake: A TLS packet with unexpected length was…
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After upgrade to 18.04, Mutt shows raw html when opening html mails in chrome

I use Mutt to read email and most of my email displays just fine as plain text. For the few exceptions I got used to hitting 'v', selecting the html part of the message and then hitting enter to view that message in my browser. To accomplish that, I…
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How can I get mutt to stop making vim insert line breaks every few characters?

Every time I type an email with mutt, it inserts these line breaks every 70 characters or so. I'd rather it just relied on word wrap instead, since my editing style (lots of revision) makes reformatting a pain. Is there a way to set this up in…
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Problem sending an email via mutt

I'm trying to send an email using mutt like this: echo 1.txt | mutt my_email@gmail.com -s Hello -a file.tar.bz2 It's getting no error, but I didn't receive the email. What's the problem?
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How do I parse emails with Mutt?

How would I go about parsing new message subject lines non-interactively using Mutt? Mutt is already configured and fetches mail from our Exchange server. What I'd like is for an action to be triggered when a message arrives in my inbox with a…
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How to use Mutt as the mail transport agent used by crontab?

I am using Mutt to send emails from my server. Using the MAILTO variable to send the result of running crontab tasks is not working as it seems that it expects to find /usr/bin/mail. This is the output of /var/log/mail.log for a crontab job: Nov 18…
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Mutt won't log in: Login failed

I have tried to configure mutt, but it won't login to Gmail. I copy and pasted the following into muttrc (with my own details), but it always says: Login failed. Some people have said to change: set smtp_url =…
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Mutt runng from Crontab

I have a bash script that is sending an email through command line mutt. This bash script is being called from a cron job (setup using crontab -e because of permissions needed to do all items in the script). I set the from address so that users can…
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