Two Hundred Stars on GitHub
Since the first release, just five months ago, we’ve achieved so much.
We’re a small band of developers and Mutt enthusiasts who want to see modern features in Mutt.
So far, we’ve added 23 features, and have 4 more in development. Also there are 2 contrib features. On top of this we’ve done lots of testing, fixed lots of bugs and created a mountain of documentation.
To get these features to the users, we’re been working closely with many distros to provide ready-made packages of NeoMutt:
- Arch
- Debian
- Fedora (COPR)
- FreeBSD
- Gentoo
- HomeBrew (OSX)
- NetBSD (pkgsrc)
- Suse
Perhaps our greatest achievement, though, is getting the Sidebar accepted into upstream Mutt. After ten years on the sidelines, it’s in!
Many thanks to everyone who’s been helping to make NeoMutt a success. Long may it continue!
What have we Achieved?
Features
Each of these 23 features is available as a separate patch against Mutt-1.6.2, or as part of the NeoMutt package.
They are maintained against the latest stable version of Mutt, they’ve been tidied up and tested. Also, each comes with documentation and a sample muttrc.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Compressed Folders | Read from/write to compressed mailboxes |
| Conditional Dates | Use rules to choose date format |
| Fmemopen | Replace some temporary files with memory buffers |
| Ifdef | Conditional config options |
| Index Color | Custom rules for theming the email index |
| Initials Expando | Expando for author’s initials |
| Keywords | Labels/Tagging for emails |
| 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 |
| Progress Bar | Show a visual progress bar on slow operations |
| Quasi-Delete | Mark emails that should be hidden, but not deleted |
| Sidebar | Overview of mailboxes |
| Skip-Quoted | Leave some context visible |
| S/MIME Encrypt to Self | Save an self-encrypted copy of emails |
| Status Color | Custom rules for theming the status bar |
| Timeout | Run a command periodically |
| TLS-SNI | Negotiate with a server for a TLS/SSL certificate |
| Trash Folder | Automatically move emails to a trash bin |
Contributions
Writing code isn’t the only way to help Mutt users. Here are two contrib features that are packaged with NeoMutt.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| keybase | Keybase Integration |
| vim-keys | Easy and clean Vi-keys for Mutt |
Under Development
These features are under development and may be available soon.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Attached | Prevent missing attachments |
| Sensible-Browser | Make the file browser behave |
| Virtual Unmailboxes | Remove unwanted vitual mailboxes |
| XDG Config Dirs | Look for config files in Desktop-Standard locations |
Upstream
These two features have been accepted into upstream Mutt. They will be available in the next release which is due in a few weeks.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Sidebar | Overview of mailboxes |
| Trash Folder | Automatically move emails to a trash bin |