Mmmmm... mutt

I have had occasion in the past to fall in love with the CLI email client “mutt” — last year, in fact, it wound up being a great resource while I made various server consolidation and administration moves and was spending a lot of time in term windows.

There are several guides out there for setting up mutt, but it’s always nice to find a newly updated one with the latest info. Via an article on macosxhints comes this great linsec.ca guide: “Using mutt on OS X” by vdanen. He covers everything from installation, building/compiling, and the usual setup stuff, then moves on to what have been deal-killers for folks in the past — Address Book integration, attachment handling, improved threading, and other coolness. Definitely recommended.

Myself, I’m holding out to see how Leopard’s improvements work out. “Stationery” and a “media browser” don’t bode well. ;) Notes and to-dos are intriguing, however.