I recently decided to go back to using mutt, a text based mailer for 'nix systems. While simple to look at, mutt is an extremely powerful. Because it acts only as a mail reader, it can be a bit of a challenge to set up, particularly if you're not aware of how mail is handled in Linux. There's also a few tweaks you can make to add some useful functionality. This is one of the beauties of mutt, you can script it to run exactly how you want it to, not how someone else wants you to manage your email.

I thought I'd put up a brief blurb of what I used and how I got it running as some resources are pretty scattered and not always written in plain language. I'm not going to go into a lot of details about configuration, there's lots of sources for that out there already. My favourites include My First Mutt and Randall Wood's excellent mutt manual

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