After a brief flirtation with Outlook Express when I got my first computer in the late 90s, I started using Netscape’s mail client. Over the years since then, I

After a brief flirtation with Outlook Express when I got my first computer in the late 90s, I started using Netscape’s mail client. Over the years since then, I used Seamonkey and briefly played with Eudora before settling on Thunderbird when it came out. I’ve been a very happy user until a few months ago when I decided to try out Mutt, a command-line email client. It has every feature you could desire in a mail client and a correspondingly steep learning curve. It’s biggest strength is that it is terminal-based so it runs on all Unix-like platforms (including Cygwin on Windows) and requires very few system resources. It’s biggest weakness is that it runs in the terminal so you’re limited to whichever mono-spaced font your terminal application uses. Steve Losh has written a great HOWTO for OS X users (it’s also very helpful for users of other platforms) to get started: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/ http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/