Mutt is a small but very powerful text based program for reading electronic mail under unix operating systems, including support color terminals, MIME, and a threaded sorting mode.
Features
- 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)