When you use a non-gui mixed-breed email program. I know I know, I haven’t climbed up the crazy tree yet. I don’t know whether you have heard of Mutt of not. Frankly, I don’t care. Mutt is a highly configurable email client that has been around since 1995 and is still making people ie nerds happy.

Mutt works on Linux, Unix, and OSX. It can be made to do anything, yes it can iron your clothes. Ok maybe not, but through a configuration file and a couple of lines of code you can make it read email from about any website.

Setting up Mutt for the first time is not for the faint of heart. There is no fancy dialog asking you for server information or passwords. If you thought setting up outlook was impossible. You might want to stop reading now. Mutt’s only settings dialog is a user created text file called “.muttrc”. Through .muttrc you tell Mutt where your mail server is, your account name, & everything else including your color scheme.

Because finding an usable .muttrc is a little difficult. My .muttrc is a combination of other user’s files. I can’t say that they were my own doing. I just brought them together into “perfect” harmony. The fastest way to get Mutt up and running is to just download and follow the instructions in the two mutt files on my FTP server. You can download Mutt for free from the Ubuntu software center.

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