Mutt is a free and open source email client software for Linux. It comes with POP3 and IMAP support, message thread, PGP/MIME support, reply to, forward multiple messages, list-reply, keybinding, macros, delivery status notification, regular expressions search, attachments. multiple message tagging and more.
How to Install Mutt on Ubuntu Linux
Mutt is available from the default Ubuntu repository. Open the terminal app using the ctrl+alt+t keys and run below Mutt apt install command. It will install the latest version of Mutt on your system.
sudo apt install mutt
First you need to configure mutt. Follow below commands one by one to create some folders.
mkdir -p ~/.mutt/cache/headers
mkdir ~/.mutt/cache/bodies
touch ~/.mutt/certificates
Then create mutt configuration file using below command.
touch ~/.mutt/muttrc
Then open that file and edit it with your mail details. Example
set ssl_starttls=yes set ssl_force_tls=yes set imap_user = '[email protected]' set imap_pass = 'your-password' set from='[email protected]' set realname='Your real name' set folder = imaps://imap.gmail.com/ set spoolfile = imaps://imap.gmail.com/INBOX set postponed="imaps://imap.gmail.com/[Gmail]/Drafts" set smtp_url = 'smtps://[email protected]:[email protected]:465/'
Then start Mutt using below command.
mutt
After that send email using this command.
mutt -s "Mail Subject" [email protected]
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