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mutt


Information about the package, mutt, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The mutt package is designed for, A text mode mail user agent.


Package Name:

mutt

Summary:

A text mode mail user agent

Description:

Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based MIME mail client. Mutt is highly configurable, and is well suited to the mail power user with advanced features like key bindings, keyboard macros, mail threading, regular expression searches and a powerful pattern matching language for selecting groups of messages.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

1.5.20

Release:

8.20091214hg736b6a.el6

Size:

1.2 M

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2+ and Public Domain



Handy Yum Commands for mutt


Control the mutt package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install mutt

This command will install mutt on the server.

yum remove mutt

This command will un-install mutt on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mutt, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove mutt

This command will un-install mutt on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove mutt when using the -y flag.

yum update mutt

This command will update mutt to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mutt, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update mutt

This command will update mutt to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove mutt when using the -y flag.

yum info mutt

This command will show you core information about the mutt package.

yum deplist mutt

This command will show you the dependencies for mutt. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update mutt

This command will check if there is an update waiting on mutt. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.