NeoMutt

Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks -- NeoMutt brings together many patches to extend Mutt.

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Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks

NeoMutt is a powerful, highly configurable command-line email client. It is a fork of Mutt with added features, built for people who want to manage email efficiently from the keyboard.

With key bindings and macros, threaded conversations, regular-expression searches, and a rich pattern language for selecting messages, NeoMutt can be shaped around your workflow instead of the other way around.

Get started

Install NeoMutt using your operating system's package manager. See the download and distribution instructions.
Connect your email account. The NeoMutt Guide has beginner-friendly tutorials and setup help for Gmail, Microsoft 365, other IMAP providers, and local mailboxes.
Make it yours. Explore the complete configuration reference, browse colour themes, and share useful additions in neomutt-contrib.

Why NeoMutt?

Keyboard-first: read, search, organize, and compose without leaving the terminal.
Deeply configurable: customize keys, colours, hooks, macros, views, and account behaviour.
Powerful mail handling: navigate threads and select groups of messages with precise searches and patterns.
Open and community-driven: NeoMutt is free software developed in the open by users and contributors.

Find help and join in

Whether you have a configuration question, a bug report, an idea, or a patch, you are welcome here.

Read the user guide
Ask and share ideas in GitHub Discussions
Chat in #neomutt on Libera.Chat
Join the users' mailing list
Report a problem in the issue tracker
Learn how to contribute, including code, documentation, and translations

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✉️ Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks -- IRC: #neomutt on irc.libera.chat

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📚 NeoMutt web pages

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🔧 vim syntax for neomuttrc

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🐳 Build Docker Images to speed up NeoMutt builds

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🎨 Assorted images that don't have a home yet

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🤖 IRC bot for #neomutt

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tree-sitter-muttrc Public Forked from Freed-Wu/tree-sitter-zathurarc
🌲👨 muttrc grammar for tree-sitter

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C 3 MIT 4 0 0 Updated Aug 18, 2026
tree-sitter-expando Public
🌲👨 mutt expando grammar for tree-sitter

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JavaScript 0 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Aug 18, 2026
mutt-language-server Public
🛠️ A language server for (neo)mutt's muttrc.

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Python 22 GPL-3.0 1 0 1 Updated Aug 17, 2026
code Public
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neomutt Public
✉️ Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks -- IRC: #neomutt on irc.libera.chat

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C 3,812 GPL-2.0 345 258 (1 issue needs help) 31 Updated Aug 17, 2026
upstream-mutt Public
♻️ Mirror of upstream Mutt

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lua Public
📚 Lua Docs

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Development Docs

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flatcap-brain-dump Public
💭 10 years' worth of ideas -- unsorted and most likely meaningless to anyone but @flatcap

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neomutt.github.io Public
📚 NeoMutt web pages

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