Mutt and Archiveopteryx

Mutt is a mostly-textual mail reader with IMAP support. It's usually used on Unix.

Mutt can access Archiveopteryx archives via IMAP. Its friend msmtp can be used to send outgoing mail from mutt via Archiveopteryx.

Mutt's IMAP support is extremely costly on big mailboxes. It downloads a lot of information about all messages every time it opens a mailbox, and caches absolutely nothing. Performance is particularly weak if PostgreSQL 8.1 is used. (We recommend using PostgreSQL 8.3 anyway.)

Mutt can be compiled using TLS support from either GnuTLS or OpenSSL. If it's compiled with GnuTLS, then a GnuTLS bug results in the error message «tls_socket_read (A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.)» and the connection is aborted. OpenSSL works well.

We suggest disabling auth-anonymous if Mutt is to be used, since Mutt prefers to log in as Anonymous even if explicitly told to use a different login name.

In case of questions, please write to info@oryx.com.

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Last modified: 2008-08-11
Location: aox.org/clients/mutt