Mutt Mail User Agent
The main site for the Mutt project is http://www.mutt.org. This page is
primarly devoted to my development efforts on the project.
Feel free to drop by #mutt on irc.freenode.net if you want to chat about
any of my patches. My IRC
nickname is scandal.
My ~/.muttrc for the curious.
Patches
Mutt
General Email discussion
Standards
The Mutt project strives to adhere to community standards whenever possible.
Interoperability always makes the user experience more pleasant. Below is
a (partial) list of relevant e-mail standards.
- RFC1524, A User Agent Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format
Information.
- RFC1939, Post Office Protocol - Version 3.
- RFC2045, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of
Internet Message Bodies.
- RFC2046, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media
Types.
- RFC2047, MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message
Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text.
- RFC2060, Internet Message Access Protocol - Version 4rev1.
- RFC2156, MIXER (Mime Internet X.400 Enhanced Relay):
Mapping between X.400 and RFC 822/MIME
- RFC2183, Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The
Content-Disposition Header Field.
- RFC2279, UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646.
- RFC2231, MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations.
- RFC2822, Internet Message Format
- RFC3156, MIME Security with OpenPGP.
Other Mail Clients
A partial list of other text/curses-based mail clients with interesting features.
The older version of this page was archived.
Last updated April 16, 2010.