README for mutt-1.4 (win32)
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Mutt is a Mail User Agent (MUA) for Unix operating systems.

Mutt was originally written by Michael Elkins, 
but is now developed and maintained by a group of volunteers 
gathered around the Mutt-Developers' mailing list, mutt-dev@mutt.org

The official homepage is located at http://www.mutt.org
The primary download location is ftp://ftp.mutt.org/pub/mutt/
The official FAQ is located at http://www.fefe.de/muttfaq/faq
The full manual is online at http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/

The bug tracking system, with a list of unresolved bugs, is located at
http://bugs.guug.de/db/pa/lmutt.html

General questions about Mutt, its usage, set up, and trouble-shooting,
may be sent to the Mutt-Users' mailing list, mutt-users@mutt.org or to
the Mutt newsgroup, comp.mail.mutt

A very good introduction to Mutt is the text "My first Mutt",
by Bruno Postle, http://mutt.blackfish.org.uk

The port of Mutt to Windows systems was made by Ulf Erikson,
http://www.geocities.com/win32mutt/  

Known limitations (bugs) specific for the win32 version of Mutt include:
 . There is no locking of files what-so-ever !
   [ Windows/MinGW doesn't support 'flock()' nor 'fcntl()' ]
 . Filters are disable at some places and badly mimicked at others.
   [ Windows/MinGW doesn't support 'fork()' ]
 . The number of signals supported by Windows/MinGW are very limited.
 . There is no automation of mailchecking or keeping a connection alive.
   [ PDCurses doesn't implement 'timeout()' ]

If you find something else not working, and believe it is due to my
error while porting Mutt, just let me know. (see web page above for
most recent e-mail address)

Remember that Mutt was written for Unix systems, and designed to run
in co-operation with several other little Unix tools to write mails,
send mails, receive mails, filter mails, and so on. A few possible
replacements are listed at http://www.geocities.com/win32mutt/tools.html

Mutt for Windows is intended to be run by Mutt users in a Windows
environment. Configuring Mutt for Windows is greatly simplified if you
are familiar with Mutt already. Use the documentation available about
Mutt under Unix and try adopt it to Windows as good as you can.
It will take some reading to get it all going.

There is a short installation guide in /doc/INSTALL.w32.

Have Fun!

/Ulf
