What is mutt?

mutt is a powerful command line email client that sends and receives emails via Terminal.

Email clients info for Linux — The Linux Kernel documentation

Install

sudo apt-get install mutt

mkdir -p ~/.mutt/cache/headers
mkdir ~/.mutt/cache/bodies
touch ~/.mutt/certificates

touch ~/.mutt/muttrc

Config

Open file vim ~/.mutt/muttrc to configure:

# ================  IMAP ====================
set imap_user = [email protected]
set imap_pass = yourpassword
set spoolfile = imaps://imap.gmail.com/INBOX
set folder = imaps://imap.gmail.com/
set record="imaps://imap.gmail.com/[Gmail]/Sent Mail"
set postponed="imaps://imap.gmail.com/[Gmail]/Drafts"
set mbox="imaps://imap.gmail.com/[Gmail]/All Mail"
set header_cache = "~/.mutt/cache/headers"
set message_cachedir = "~/.mutt/cache/bodies"
set certificate_file = "~/.mutt/certificates"
# ================  SMTP  ====================
set smtp_url = "smtp://[email protected]:587/"
set smtp_pass = $imap_pass
set ssl_force_tls = yes # Require encrypted connection
# ================  Composition  ====================
set editor = "vim"      # Set your favourite editor.
set edit_headers = yes  # See the headers when editing
set charset = UTF-8     # value of $LANG; also fallback for send_charset
# Sender, email address, and sign-off line must match
unset use_domain        # because joe@localhost is just embarrassing
set realname = "Your Name"
set from = "[email protected]"
set use_from = yes

How to send patches with mutt

mutt -H 0001-some-bug-fix.patch