LXer: Mutt – A Command Line Email Client to Send Mails from Terminal
 

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Mutt is a command line based Email client. It’s a very useful and powerful tool to send and read mails from command line in Unix based systems. Mutt also supports POP and IMAP protocols for receiving mails. It opens with a coloured interface to send Email which makes it user friendly to send emails from command line.

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Mutt is a nice job of work. I used it for quite a while.

The only reason I'm not using it now is that the computer it was installed on died after a long and fruitful life, and I was too lazy to set it up on my new machine. But using it will teach you a lot about how email works.