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• [–] My first mutt

  This is a guide for anybody who is planning to make the move to the mutt email reader.

  • [•] mutt overview

    mutt has no pull-down menus or buttons to point-and-click at. Navigating around the various parts of the program means learning a few keyboard shortcuts.

  • [•] Mail storage

    Mail can be in all sorts of places, stored locally in various file formats or accessed remotely using network protocols such as IMAP or NFS.

  • [•] Collecting mail

    A lot of the time your incoming mail is somewhere else, like a POP3 server – You just need to fetch it and bring it to a location where it can be sorted and dealt with.

  • [•] Text editing

    The job of writing mail is a task for you and your preferred text-editor.

  • [•] Sending mail

    Viewing your mail is fine, but you probably want to be able to send your messages to somebody else.

  • [•] Filtering mail

    Delivering incoming mail to different folders, deleting spam and general processing of incoming messages is a job for a mail delivery agent.

  • [•] Searching mail

    Mutt is great for finding your way among large amounts of mail in a folder, regular expressions are the basic tools.

  • [•] Cryptography

    Successful network protocols like email-transport are based-on plain text. This makes it easy for other people to intercept, manipulate and forge messages.

  • [•] File attachments

    Mail is not just words, you probably need to send and receive different kinds of media such as images and audio.

  • [•] Following links

    Email can contain hyperlink URLs, there are various ways of following URLs and email addresses from mutt.

  • [•] Managing addresses

    Mutt has a simple and powerful method for storing and retrieving names and addresses, plus other address systems can be accessed.

  • [•] About this guide

    Irrelevant information about how this mutt guide for newbies was created