"Despite the plethora of email clients available nowadays, the text based mutt is still the choice of many gurus. It follows the Unix philosophy of doing one thing well rather than trying to do many things. Although there is limited POP3 functionality, and muttng even has the ability to use builtin SMTP, in general, experts use mutt to read the mail and other programs to send, receive and filter. Despite this, mutt can do a great many things. People used to graphical email clients will be surprised at its abilities.
"This article will show you how to get started with mutt, using ssmtp to send mail, getmail to receive it and maildrop to filter it..."
