l10n support
~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you want to see non-ASCII characters on a Debian system, there's no
use fiddling with the variable "charset", as described in the manual
page muttrc(5).
Instead, you'll need to have the Debian package "locales" installed on
your system and set the LANG or LC_CTYPE environment variable.
e.g. US users will want to add "export LC_CTYPE=en_US" to their ~/.bashrc.
If you have a /etc/locale.gen file read carefully the comment and do
what it says, or it will not work.
No, linux does not need --enable-locales-fix or --without-wc-funcs, so
don't bother me saying these switches cure your problems.


SSL support
~~~~~~~~~~~
To enable SSL support you need to install the libgcrypt1 and gnutls3
packages.
If you want to use the OpenSSL library you need to install the
libssl09-dev package and recompile the package yourself after editing
debian/rules. Use of mutt with OpenSSL is not supported by debian,
please do not open bugs if something breaks.
Another solution is connecting to imap://localhost/ while running
stunnel on your machine:

stunnel -c -d imap -r $REMOTE_MAIL_SERVER:imaps -P /var/run/


pgp_encryptself
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This mutt 1.0.x configuration option does not exist anymore and this
will not change. To achieve the same effect you can add something like
--encrypt-to=your@mail.address to the relevant ~/.muttrc configuration
lines (pgp_encrypt_only_command and pgp_encrypt_sign_command) or to
~/.gnupg/options .


gpg-2comp
~~~~~~~~~
/usr/share/doc/mutt/examples/gpg.rc uses a wrapper program called
gpg-2comp which is not available as a debian package.
This program is needed only to sign and encrypt messages with a method
compatible with PGP 2.x. Users who don't need this feature can use the
commands provided in the default /etc/Muttrc.
The pgpewrap and pgpring programs used by some example rc files have
been installed in /usr/lib/mutt.
The files /usr/share/doc/mutt/examples/*.rc are just examples and are not
supposed to be used as is. Actually they are not supposed to be used at
all, PGP support works out of the box if gnupg is installed.


PGP support
~~~~~~~~~~~
GnuPG support works out of the box with the default /etc/Muttrc.
You do not need any of the example files in /usr/share/doc/mutt/.


Scripts
~~~~~~~
Look at /usr/lib/mutt/{debian-ldap-query,mailspell}.


About temporary files and security
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When using mutt to view an encrypted message, the plain text is saved in
a temporary file. If you have reasons to worry an attacker may recover
the deleted file from your hard disk please take appropriate actions to
prevent this (e.g. use a ramdisk or shred(1) or wipe(1)).
Also don't forget about the temporary files created by your editor.


Reporting bugs
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Please use mutt's own flea(1) command instead of the usual bug(1)
or reportbug(1) debian packages.