"All mailers suck - but mutt sucks less."
 Mutt  sucks less - but it still sucks!

mutt has been improved a lot at a fast rate -
but  that was almost some 10 years ago.
mutt development had stalled for two years
even though there had been many patches.
and this sucks.

now there's been a fork and there
is some development happening again..

ON 2005-01-11? Andreas Krennmair (aka AK) forked mutt
and he named it "mutt next generation" aka "mutt-ng".

fixes:
• display of format=flowed fixed

new features:
• attribution - use sender's initials with %I
• configurable MIDs - for automated recognition of own messages and replies to them
• configurable umask - for creating files with your favourite permissions
• purge+trash - move messages to a trash folder - before *really* deleting them with "purge"
• signoff string - adds your name and greeting before the signature (from slrn)
• source command has been extended to take a *list* of filenames
• support for compressed folders
• thread editing - fix broken threads or separate subthread
• re-use of last used directory when saving attachments
• IMAP - automated reconnects after server went away + header caching
• SMTP - for those who don't want to set up a huge MTA
• NTTP - for reading newsgroups from a usenet news server
• sidebar - for display of folders and newsgroups (full/long names (abbreviated names)

the usual media:
• project on berlios
• two maillists (devel+users)
• daily snapshots and packages (CRUX, Debian, Gentoo)
• RPM package script (Iain Lea)
• blog with an rss feed
• wiki

coming up:
• yet another bug tracking system
• more documentation
• a roadmap
• a domain
• update on the vim syntax file

goals:
• fixing old bugs (also in docs)
• improving the coding style (eg indentation)
• reduce clutter on urls
• make mutt-ng suck less than mutt. :-)

please help!
• write patches for features
• check in to check it out
• add docs with examples
• add info to the wiki
• test it
• *use* it

this text:
www.guckes.net/muttng/

mailing lists: mutt-ng-devel + mutt-ng-user
https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mutt-ng-devel/
https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mutt-ng-users/

project pages:
homepage:
mutt-ng.berlios.de
bug reports + feature requests + patches upload:
http://developer.berlios.de/feature/?group_id=2853
snapshots:
http://mutt-ng.berlios.de/snapshots/

packages:
CRUX:   http://rugek.btcl.de/crux-ports/rugek/mutt-ng/
Debian: http://people.debian.org/~nobse/packages/mutt-ng/ (2005-04-06: timeout)
        http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv/
                 maintained by Elimar Riesebieter mutt-ng(at)lxtec.de
Gentoo: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81900

blog with rss feed:
http://mutt-ng.supersized.org/

wiki:
http://www.strcat.de/muttng/pmwiki.php/News/Latest

announcements:
fork von mutt gestartet
..

Linux Magazine interviews AK:
http://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/2005/03/026-mutt-ng/index.html

"Mutt--The Next Generation"  by Kyle Rankin
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6565

Andreas Krennmair (AK) [Linz, Austria]:
http://www.synflood.at/
project leader

Nico "nion" Golde (NG) [Berlin, Germany]:
http://www.ngolde.de/
documentation, code patches

Sven Guckes (SG) [Berlin, Germany]:
http://www.guckes.net/
public relations and talks
structure of website

Christian "strcat" Schneider (CS) [Regensburg, Germany]:
http://www.strcat.de/
wiki. screenshots and late night
session before fosdem talk.

testing and patches:
Michael "mikap" Prokop (MP) [Graz, Austria]
Rocco Rutte (RR) [Berlin, Germany]



 Mutt-NG - Events 


where we shall be in the near future:
March  5+ 6   Chemnitz:   AK- MP! NG! SG!
March 25-28 EasterHegg:   AK? MP? NG? SG!
June  22-25   LinuxTag:   AK! MP? NG? SG!

(summer)  mutt+slrn: BugFest+ThinkTank