1 Topic by ralessi

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Topic: mutt and neomutt

Just out of curiosity: why does Hyperbola feature neomutt instead of mutt, under the name of mutt, pointing to http://mutt.org?

2 Reply by emulatorman

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Re: mutt and neomutt

ralessi wrote:

Just out of curiosity: why does Hyperbola feature neomutt instead of mutt, under the name of mutt, pointing to http://mutt.org?

It was made because we're using a Debian modified source of Mutt that contains parts of Neomutt code to fix a lot of security issues in that specific version of Mutt (1.8.3). Anyway, i'm going to upgrade Mutt to a newer version following the backporting amendment in our packaging guidelines to fix the remaining security issues.

3 Reply by ralessi

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Re: mutt and neomutt

Excellent, thank you.  I should have taken a look at the source files before asking!

4 Reply by jmarciano

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Re: mutt and neomutt

I am so glad to have newest mutt version in Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre, as otherwise I was compiling it myself.

5 Reply by antn

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Re: mutt and neomutt

Similar to mutt, there is also the terminal mail client Alpine. Could be this package added? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Alpine

6 Reply by jmarciano

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Re: mutt and neomutt

There is also pine from Courier MTA software. It would be excellent to have Courier MTA http://www.courier-mta.org/ in Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre, as this would allow good usage on servers.

Debian GNU/Linux is not packaging courier in some understandable manner, it could be much much simpler if directly packaged.

It is well developed MTA, I am using it on Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre as self compiled software. It also contains secure webmail with GnuPG encryption which we use for years. And there is pine client.