Mutt is completely behaving itself and I'm very happy with that. An additional tweak I've made is to pipe Mailtos to a fine script by Martin Krafft http://svn.madduck.net/pub/bin/mail/mailto-mutt. There's a few scripts out there to handle mailtos but Martins' works splendidly with the browser I'm using, Iceweasel. The only things I modified in his script were to route the /path/to/handler to the mailto-mutt script and to respecify the xterminal to aterm, the terminal emulator I use. And don't forget to make the script executable.

I've given some thought to using a text browser to replace Iceweasel, but generally my websurfing is pretty image dependant. I also think that, as a visual media, that's not a bad thing.

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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