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mailutils mit Homebrew, apk, apt, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper installieren

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Installationsbefehl Sicherheitshinweise

Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install mailutils

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverifiziert · 94%

sudo port install mailutils

MacPorts ports tree · mail/mailutils/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverifiziert · 92%

sudo apk add mailutils

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · mailutils · Quelle: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverifiziert · 92%

sudo apt install mailutils

Debian stable package indexes · mailutils · Quelle: deb.debian.org

Nixverifiziert · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#mailutils

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ma/mailutils/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverifiziert · 92%

sudo pacman -S mailutils

Arch Linux sync databases · mailutils · Quelle: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

openSUSE zypperverifiziert · 92%

sudo zypper install mailutils

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · mailutils · Quelle: download.opensuse.org

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Swiss Army knife of email handling

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

comsatd
decodemail
dotlock
frm
from
imap4d
lmtpd
mail
mailutils
mailutils-config
messages
mimeview
movemail
pop3d
popauth
putmail
readmsg
sieve

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

GNU Mailutils is the GNU Project's general-purpose mail package: a set of command-line utilities, daemons, and libraries for handling electronic mail across local and remote mailbox formats.

Projektgeschichte

The Mailutils manual describes the package as having started from a practical need to handle large mailbox files more gracefully than the POP3 servers available to its authors at the time. That origin explains the library-centered design: programs built on Mailutils are meant to work across mailbox formats through one interface rather than carrying separate mailbox-specific code.

Public GNU source archives show Mailutils 0.1 available in September 2002, 1.0 in July 2006, and the 3.x line continuing through Mailutils 3.21 in December 2025. Over that span the package accumulated classic Unix mail commands, protocol daemons, Sieve support, MH-compatible tools, and libmailutils APIs for mailbox, MIME, authentication, and protocol work.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The upstream homepage identifies Mailutils as official GNU software and lists it as useful to regular users, system administrators, and developers. It also names other free software packages using it, including MH-E and Mailfromd, which is a useful signal that Mailutils is both a user-facing toolbox and a reusable mail framework.

In package-manager culture, Mailutils matters because it is the GNU-flavored provider of familiar commands such as mail, frm, from, messages, movemail, readmsg, and sieve, while also shipping POP3, IMAP4, LMTP, and related services. That makes one package cover many mail-adjacent command names that otherwise vary by Unix lineage.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users install Mailutils for traditional command-line mail reading and sending, mailbox inspection, message extraction, MIME viewing, movemail-style retrieval, and Sieve filtering. Administrators use its daemons and delivery tools for POP3, IMAP4, LMTP, local delivery, and mailbox conversion.

Mailutils reads a site-wide configuration file named ${sysconfdir}/mailutils.conf and, for client utilities, per-user files named after the program such as ~/.sieve. Its wicket command looks up matching URLs in the default ticket file ~/.mu-tickets, allowing credentials to be kept out of command lines and ordinary examples.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Mailutils is a dense GNU package in the best and worst senses: one formula brings in a pile of historically loaded mail commands plus servers, libraries, and protocol glue. It is especially interesting when comparing which implementation of mail, movemail, or sieve a distribution chooses to expose.

Because the suite understands UNIX maildrops, Maildir, MH, POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, TLS, SASL, and related mechanisms, it sits at the crossroads of old local Unix mail and network-era mail protocols. That makes it a frequent dependency, conflict, or alternative in mail tooling stacks.

Zeitleiste

2002: Mailutils 0.1 appears in the official GNU FTP archive.
2006: Mailutils 1.0 appears in the official GNU FTP archive.
2025: Mailutils 3.21 is released and documented by the upstream manual.

Related projects

GNU Emacs movemail is a historical reference point for Mailutils movemail.
MH-E is listed by the upstream homepage as free software using Mailutils.
Mailfromd is listed by the upstream homepage as free software using Mailutils.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: grün

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risikoklassifikator

grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance

Warum

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signale

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 6 Plattformziele verfügbar.
Installiert mit 7 Laufzeitabhängigkeiten.

Empfohlene Prüfung

Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: ${sysconfdir}/mailutils.conf~/.<program>

Credential files

Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.

Unix: ~/.mu-tickets

Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit
`comsatd`	cli	globales Executable
`decodemail`	cli	globales Executable
`dotlock`	cli	globales Executable
`frm`	cli	globales Executable
`from`	cli	globales Executable
`imap4d`	cli	globales Executable
`lmtpd`	cli	globales Executable
`mail`	cli	globales Executable
`mailutils`	cli	globales Executable
`mailutils-config`	cli	globales Executable
`messages`	cli	globales Executable
`mimeview`	cli	globales Executable
`movemail`	cli	globales Executable
`pop3d`	cli	globales Executable
`popauth`	cli	globales Executable
`putmail`	cli	globales Executable
`readmsg`	cli	globales Executable
`sieve`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-07-10

Manager-Version3.21

Manager aktualisiert

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamnot checked

neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt

https://mailutils.org/

InfoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.niedrig Konfidenz
InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://mailutils.org/none Konfidenz

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:mailutils
Version	3.21
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mailutils
Homepage	https://mailutils.org/
Repository	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/mailutils.git
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://mailutils.org/manual/mailutils.html
Lizenz	GPL-3.0-or-later
Quellarchiv	https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/mailutils/mailutils-3.21.tar.gz
Abhängigkeiten	gdbm, gettext, gnutls, gsasl, libtool, libunistring, readline
Von macOS bereitgestellte Bibliotheken	libxcrypt
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	mailutils
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Debian apt95%

libmailutils-dev 1:3.19-1

development files for GNU mailutils