[dm319]

Just in case anyone is curious as to why someone would use mutt, here are a few:

1. I can edit and compose emails in my favourite editor

2. Near instantaneous launch

3. Can launch multiple instances, allowing for viewing/searching to happen concurrently

4. Rapid search with advanced searching features - i.e. find all emails that have 1 or more attachments sent to me from within a month of 1/1/2019 from someone with a "csu" email - would be l ~f csu ~X > 0 ~d 1/1/2019*1m

5. Deal rapidly with emails - I have 'd' for delete and move to next and 'y' for archive and move to next, I can zip through emails quicker than on any other email client I have used

6. I can work effectively when I'm offline or have patchy internet/signal (i.e. on a train) using mbsync or similar to store emails locally and sync up with my gmail account when I have internet.

7. Highly configurable - custom set-up for what data I want to see in my inbox, and what colours to use and what to highlight

8. Intelligent reply-all - it knows I have several email aliases that belong to me so I don't reply to myself

[singingfish]

Mutt's still really useful. Need to deal with plain text messages or whole message bodies to send around to different places on the internet? Then mutt's what you need. Huge mail boxes that choke outlook? Mutt. I don't use it often these days but a mutt setup is super-handy.

[Scarbutt]

How do you send html emails? write the tags manually and sending it as text/html ?

[WhyNotHugo]

Generally Mutt users don't.

Personally I find the need for HTML email extremely unusual (maybe once every year or two?). My guess is that, for the average Mutt user, it's less than that.

[dm319]

I found this [1], but I think something along those lines would work.

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/36881/sending-html-...