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Does anybody really need a graphical MUA (Mail User Agent)?
mutt is all you need! Small, fast, mighty and extremely configurable.
Why mutt has been written, who wrote it, mutt's features and what it is not able to do and lots of other interesting stuff can be found at http://www.mutt.org/ or at http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/mutt/.
This is my configuration:
At startup mutt is looking either for ~/.muttrc or for
~/.mutt/muttrc. But you can split this up into different
versions, e.g. at our conmpany we have two different versions of
mutt, one with PGP-support and one with SMIME-support. This
Version was made by Oliver Ehli, a colleague of mine. His
documentation
is no langer accessible, but as it supported version 1.3 only it
doesn't matter that much.
From version 1.5 on SMIME-support is included by default.
Back to muttrc:
~/.mutt/muttrc-1.2.5i
~/.mutt/muttrc-1.3.14i
These two files above source the real config:
~/.mutt/aliases
~/.mutt/bind
~/.mutt/color
~/.mutt/hooks
~/.mutt/pgp
~/.mutt/set
~/.mutt/smime
aliases is my addressbook. bind is caring for key-bindings. This helps you speeding up usage or making mutt act as elm or pine. color is not everybodies cup of tea, it easily gets too colourful, but used with care it improves optical preselection of messages. hooks is a mighty little helper. It can be used to tweak sort order, signatures, headerlines or default savefolders. pgp and smime are for encryption behaviour as you might have guessed. Last but not least set holds every other setting from attachmenthandling to which editor to use.
Most of these settings and files are found and reused somewhere from the net. ~/.mutt/set still holds some references on the original author.
For the case somebody might find this useful: here you are!
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