Mutt 1.5.24 Released

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Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 2, 2015 @08:00AM from the latest-and-greatest dept.

kthreadd writes: Version 1.5.24 of the Mutt email client has been released. New features in this release includes among other things terminal status-line (TS) support, a new color object 'prompt', the ability to encrypt postponed messages and opportunistic encryption which automatically enables/disables encryption based on message recipients. SSLv3 is now also disabled by default.

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Why is a minor release news here?! by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-02 08:15 · Score: 0

Why is a pretty minor release considered newsworthy here?! I could understand a news item for Mutt 2.0, and maybe even 1.6, but this is the 24th bugfix release of a preview branch!
1. Re:Why is a minor release news here?! by markhb · 2015-09-02 08:47 · Score: 1
  
  They're pining for Freshmeat.net.
  
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2. Re:Why is a minor release news here?! by fisted · 2015-09-02 09:13 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  Because mutt is amazing software.
  Fun fact, this "preview branch" (it's not a preview branch) was branched in 2002.
  
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3. Re: Why is a minor release news here?! by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-03 17:19 · Score: 0
  
  I am waiting for the opportunistic encryption for like 5 years. That alone should make the version bump to 2.0
ok by turkeydance · 2015-09-02 08:17 · Score: 3, Funny

who let the dogs out?
Mutt is my MUA of choice by Alain+Williams · 2015-09-02 08:18 · Score: 3, Insightful

for 15+ years, after elm and before that mush. Not having to find and wiggle the mouse makes it fast, as does it being a CHUI (CHaracter UI) - especially when ssh-ed in from somewhere.
1. Re:Mutt is my MUA of choice by buchner.johannes · 2015-09-02 08:23 · Score: 1
  
  After 15+ years the bandwidth should suffice to run Thunderbird over ssh, shouldn't it? (Ok, you prefer a different UI).
  
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2. Re:Mutt is my MUA of choice by Alain+Williams · 2015-09-02 08:29 · Score: 1
  
  With a GUI latency rather than bandwidth can be the bigger problem.
3. Re:Mutt is my MUA of choice by innocent_white_lamb · 2015-09-02 08:54 · Score: 1
  
  I use mutt to read my email when I'm checking it with my phone. (Log in to a command line with VX Connectbot, then run mutt there.)
  Even though it takes two steps (log in, then run the program) it's still more efficient than K9 Mail.
  
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4. Re:Mutt is my MUA of choice by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-02 09:15 · Score: 1
  
  I only discovered mutt in 2013 :(. I hated email before that, mutt has completely changed that.
5. Re:Mutt is my MUA of choice by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-02 10:24 · Score: 0
  
  cool story bro
6. Re:Mutt is my MUA of choice by caseih · 2015-09-02 14:46 · Score: 2
  
  Exactly. X11 has too many round trips to the server for things to be usable over anything but a LAN link. X2Go, however, can easily run Thunderbird remotely.
  That said, a terminal window is so darn handy that it's nice to have nice text-mode programs we can use from it. Especially when working with a remote system that doesn't even have the X11 client libraries installed.
7. Re:Mutt is my MUA of choice by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-02 18:35 · Score: 0
  
  wouldn't it be easier to set up sshfs and run thunderbird locally?
8. Re: Mutt is my MUA of choice by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-03 13:50 · Score: 0
  
  Lame. I've never heard of someone whining about X for email. Lemme guess... You run an xterm to view email in your Mutt client.
9. Re: Mutt is my MUA of choice by Alain+Williams · 2015-09-03 19:30 · Score: 1
  
  I am talking about X over broadband connections. Locally I use xterm (well, Gnome terminal), but remotely I use ssh. mutt works well over ssh.
10. Re:Mutt is my MUA of choice by allo · 2015-09-04 01:47 · Score: 1
  
  xpra ftw.
and yet another attempt is made. by nimbius · 2015-09-02 08:19 · Score: 5, Funny

Every time i see someone at work using mutt, or its recommended online, my general inclination is to give it a go. This time will be different, and ill finally get the hang of one of the most powerful and flexible email clients ever written!

2 months later ive deleted send mail, spawned 52 deleted mail boxes and permanently added 50 megs of /dev/urandom to my sig. I can send an email but it requires connecting to my localhost, which in turn connects to the server, then gets routed through my cat (the part that survived configuring) and across the internet to the receiving MTA. Fortunately for the past 20 or so messages, German chancellor Angela Merkel has kindly forwarded my correspondence to the intended recipient. Im hopeful I'll learn how to enable GPG and threads before food runs out.

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1. Re:and yet another attempt is made. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-02 08:55 · Score: 0
  
  Nice
2. Re:and yet another attempt is made. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-02 17:46 · Score: 0
  
  you're just stupid is all. don't worry, there's a solution just for you. it's called Windows.
3. Re:and yet another attempt is made. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-02 20:13 · Score: 0
  
  You would be much kinder if you would just recommend banging his head to the wall and repete
4. Re:and yet another attempt is made. by morgauxo · 2015-09-03 01:56 · Score: 1
  
  Don't worry, that's the ultimate outcome from his suggestion. It's psychology, most people wouldn't take the head banging advice. But.. to the unitiated 'just use Windows' sounds so much less intimidating. Ultimately it gets them to the same destination though.
Does it offload work to the IMAP server yet? by Hobart · 2015-09-02 08:24 · Score: 2

I've got several Cyrus IMAP hosted mailboxes with tens of thousands of messages in them.
Last time I tried Mutt it could only do "slurp all mailbox contents to local machine" Can Mutt offload searches to the IMAP server, fetch only 1 page of data at a time (not download all headers) etc yet?
It'd be nice for there to be competition besides Alpine.

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1. Re:Does it offload work to the IMAP server yet? by Celarent+Darii · 2015-09-02 09:15 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  For IMAP, just turn off the cache if you don't want them on your local machine. It is sometimes good to just cache the headers for quicker look, especially if you file commit messages to folders.
  Mutt can offload searches to IMAP, and do many wonderful things:
  http://dev.mutt.org/trac/wiki/...
  
  If you want to avoid prefetch, work with =h and =b instead: this leaves the search on the server (if it supports it), but notice that it's literal string only, no regular expression. Note that this feature is not available before version 1.5.11.
2. Re:Does it offload work to the IMAP server yet? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-02 14:14 · Score: 0
  
  I use OfflineIMAP with Mutt. It's lightning fast even with 10,000 messages in a maildir.
Amen by Kludge · 2015-09-02 09:03 · Score: 1

I have been trying to get off pine/alpine for years. But everytime I try to go with mutt, I give up for all the work and custom configuration required.
I would like to have a text-based mail reader that will do IMAPS, SMTPS, GPG, address book, mbox, maildir, message searching, etc, while making configuration manageable.
I can dream right?
1. Re:Amen by nblender · 2015-09-02 09:08 · Score: 2
  
  nmh. http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/
  
  message handling from the command line.
2. Re:Amen by Qzukk · 2015-09-02 11:33 · Score: 1
  
  I used mh/nmh for a long, long time. The command-line tools were excellent for quickly filtering emails (thanks to bash and grep and each message being a file in a folder), but really, the tcl/tk exmh wrapper was what I really liked. It did what I wanted, using tools that worked, without me having to memorize all the tools and how they worked.
  These days I just use gmail.
  
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3. Re:Amen by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-06 20:07 · Score: 0
  
  I dumped mh/nmh back in 1998 because it didn't support IMAP. Fast forward to 2015, and it still can't do IMAP properly! Not acceptable in this day and age.
Re: Thanks for keeping us posted, Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-02 09:41 · Score: 0

It's a major release, not a patch. Lots of new features in this one.
screw Mutt, ELM is the way to go. by Lord+Apathy · 2015-09-02 09:56 · Score: 1

Still rocking with ELM here. Just because its old software doesn't mean its bad software.

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1. Re:screw Mutt, ELM is the way to go. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-02 14:02 · Score: 1
  
  real men use ls and tail to read mail and types outbound messages in realtime via telnet to send.
Re: Thanks for keeping us posted, Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-02 09:57 · Score: 0

If it's a "major release", then why the fuck is the version number 1.5.24?
Re: Thanks for keeping us posted, Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-02 10:04 · Score: 0

Same reason why Apple will soon release OS X 10.11 and Firefox just released version 42. It just is that way.
Re: Thanks for keeping us posted, Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-02 10:30 · Score: 0

If it's a "major release", then why the fuck is the version number 1.5.24?
It's minorly major... or is that majorly minor? At any rate, it's a minorly majorly minor release with major changes in minor ways, thus requiring a major news release on a minor geek board... or something like that.