This is the NeoMutt Project

What is NeoMutt?

NeoMutt is a project of projects:

• A place to gather all the patches against Mutt
• A place for all the developers to gather

This builds community and reduces duplicated effort.

NeoMutt was created when Richard Russon (@FlatCap) gathered all the old Mutt patches, sorted through them, fixed them up, and documented them.

What Features does NeoMutt have?

Name	Description
Account Command	Populate account credentials via an external command
Attach Headers Color	Color attachment headers using regex, just like mail bodies
Command-line Crypto (-C)	Enable message security in modes that by default don't enable it
Compose Message Preview	Show a preview of the message in the Compose Dialog
Compose to Sender	Send new mail to the sender of the current mail
Compressed Folders	Read from/write to compressed mailboxes
Conditional Dates	Use rules to choose date format
Custom Mailbox Tags	Implements Notmuch tags and Imap keywords
Encrypt-to-Self	Save a self-encrypted copy of emails
Fmemopen	Replace some temporary files with memory buffers
Forgotten Attachment	Alert the user when they forget to attach a file to an outgoing email
Global Hooks	Define actions to run globally within NeoMutt
Header Cache Compression	Options for compressing the header cache files
Ifdef	Conditional config options
Index Color	Custom rules for theming the email index
Initials Expando	Expando for author's initials
Limit Current Thread	Focus on one Email Thread
LMDB	LMDB backend for the header cache
Multiple FCC	Save multiple copies of outgoing mail
Nested If	Allow complex nested conditions in format strings
New Mail	Execute a command upon the receipt of new mail
NNTP	Talk to a Usenet news server
Notmuch	Email search engine
Pager Read Delay	Delay when the pager marks a previewed message as read
Progress Bar	Show a visual progress bar on slow operations
Quasi-Delete	Mark emails that should be hidden, but not deleted
Reply With X-Original-To	Direct reply to email using X-Original-To header
Sensible Browser	Make the file browser behave
Sidebar	Panel containing list of Mailboxes
Skip Quoted	Leave some context visible
Status Color	Custom rules for theming the status bar
TLS-SNI	Negotiate with a server for a TLS/SSL certificate
Trash Folder	Automatically move deleted emails to a trash bin
Use Threads	Improve the experience with viewing threads in the index

Contributed Scripts and Config

Name	Description
Header Cache Benchmark	Script to test the speed of the header cache
Keybase	Keybase Integration
Useful programs	List of useful programs interacting with NeoMutt
Vi Keys	Easy and clean Vi-keys for NeoMutt
Vim Syntax	Vim Syntax File

How to Install NeoMutt

NeoMutt may be packaged for your distribution. If not, it can be built from source. Please refer to the installation instructions on the distro page.

Where is NeoMutt?

• Source Code: https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt
• Releases: https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/releases/latest
• Questions/Bugs: https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues
• Website: https://neomutt.org
• IRC: irc://irc.libera.chat/neomutt — please be patient, we're a small group, so responses may take some time
• Mailing Lists: neomutt-users and neomutt-devel
• Development: https://neomutt.org/dev.html
• Contributors: Everyone who has helped NeoMutt

Copyright

NeoMutt is released under the GPL v2+ (GNU General Public License); see LICENSE.md.

The principal authors of NeoMutt are:

• Copyright (C) 2015-2024 Richard Russon <[email protected]>
• Copyright (C) 2016-2023 Pietro Cerutti <[email protected]>
• Copyright (C) 2017-2019 Mehdi Abaakouk <[email protected]>
• Copyright (C) 2018-2020 Federico Kircheis <[email protected]>
• Copyright (C) 2017-2022 Austin Ray <[email protected]>
• Copyright (C) 2023-2024 Dennis Schön <[email protected]>
• Copyright (C) 2016-2017 Damien Riegel <[email protected]>
• Copyright (C) 2023 Rayford Shireman
• Copyright (C) 2021-2023 David Purton <[email protected]>
• Copyright (C) 2020-2023 наб <[email protected]>