especially if you have lots of IMAP folders to manage like me. One can use the Mutt MUA without the sidepane patch, but I find it extremely useful. The Mutt MUA (mail user agent) was created by Pilgrims on the voyage of the Mayflower to the Americas, though the concept of e-mail, internet and correspondence outside of pidgeons and quill pens upon parchment had not yet been invented. The Goldberg Machine of Awesome: List of Components. This should also work on any operating system where mutt runs natively (FreeBSD, OSX, etc). Please note that you must be running a recent Linux distribution due to the libraries required. While that may not mean much to most people it makes me feel more like Caine from Kung-Fu. If you find yourself using Thunderbird or another GUI client just for the search functionality this might be useful.Īnother benefit is that using a console email and a console IRC client (I like weechat) I can do 100% of my work in a screen session, basically being able to work without a laptop in a pinch and only a terminal. It’s not for everyone, but if you find that using keyboard hotkeys over kludgy mouse clicks is preferable but you’ve always avoided a console email client like Mutt, Alpine or Elm because of lacking search/indexing functionality then you may find it useful. I get a ridiculous amount of email through open source project mailing lists, team and company mailing lists and other sources and it’s basically the only way I can keep up. I’ve found tremendous gains in productivity, speed and efficiency with this setup. Every here will work there and vice-versa.Ī few years ago a co-worker introduced me to a blog post that explained how a marriage of Mutt and the exhaustive indexing and searching functionality of notmuch could give me what I was lacking.
Update: – I’ve switched from mutt to neomutt, it’s pretty much the same just more maintained and improved. Update: – Gmail users consult this post for Offlineimap configuration then return to step 3a below. Here is how I combined Mutt, OfflineIMAP and Notmuch into a powerful email/search system to take back my inbox. Mutt has built-in, powerful regex search but I sought something more intuitive – I could never remember the arcane syntax for it to be timely but I didn’t want to bother with a cumbersome GUI for searching and indexing. Still, I found search functionality lacking compared to Thunderbird or other GUI clients.
I’ve been an avid user of the Mutt email client for quite some time, preferring it to GUI clients or web for its speed, hotkey-everything approach, and integration with vim that compliment my daily workflow.
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