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This is a quick beginners guide for anybody adopting the mutt mailer. Links to more comprehensive online information, such as the mutt manual, are given wherever possible. This guide refers to features available in the stable mutt 1.4 series, whereas the upcoming 1.6 release has many new features not documented here such as: header caching, outgoing SMTP and inline PGP.
Mutt is a powerful, configurable and modern mail user agent for Unix-like systems such as GNU/linux, BSD Unix, Sun Solaris or Apple OS-X (there is also a win32 mutt port available either standalone or as part of the Cygwin package). Mutt is Free Software.
You should consider switching to mutt when you need to:
Simply put, mutt is just a file browser specialised for browsing email. Mutt supports several standard methods for storing and accessing mail, such as mbox, mh, Maildir and IMAP.
Mutt has all the tools you could need for viewing, browsing, manipulating and assembling email. However, mutt may not do some of the things you might expect from a mail user agent (MUA); such as edit text or dispatch, collect and filter mail - Jobs that can be performed better and with more versatility by other complementary software.
So, mutt typically forms just part of a suite of mail-handling tools. This guide is to help you figure out which bits you need to assemble, the bits you already have and the bits you simply don't need to bother with.