I am sure every one of us must have been struggled to manage their growing mailbox. As your mailbox size starts growing, frequency of mail client crashing increases making you handicap. I spent early years of my career as desktop engineer, and spent significant amount of time trying to recover people mailbox from Outlook crash.
Then I tried Thunderbird, the open source mail client from Mozilla foundation, which is more stable and does not crash as frequently as MS Outlook. But as my daily mail volume increased significantly (2000-3000 mails per day) Thunderbird started giving trouble. Every Monday morning I had to wait for at least an hour on weekend to open Thunderbird.
Then I saw some of my team mates using Mutt. Earlier I had seen my manager in Red Hat, using Mutt for managing his mails, but never tried it. I decided to give it a try, and got sample conf files from one of my team mate. It took some time for me to understand it and configure it properly.
Initially I took time to basic things like composing, replying to mails etc. But once it was set properly I need not to touch Mutt conf files till date, though I changed my system lot of times.
Now I don’t have to worry of increased mail volume and number of unread mails in my mailbox.
Mutt can open any mailbox having thousands of mails within seconds. Mutt is ultimate mail client, though it’s a text based mail client it is the best compared to any other crappy mail clients like MS Outlook.
If you are struggling to manage your mails be it at work or home, Mutt is the solution for you.
Mutt is a feature-rich, lightweight, text-based e-mail client. Yes, it’s text-based.The text-based display is a feature, providing a customizable, concise viewport. The Mutt e-mail client will play nicely with remote IMAP, POP3 and SMTP servers. SSL connections also are supported. Whatever features Mutt does not provide other tools, such as address books, Web browsers, document viewers and more, can be leveraged to enhance Mutt’s innate abilities.
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