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Install neomutt with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper

E-mail reader with support for Notmuch, NNTP and much more. Version 20260616 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-22.

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Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install neomutt

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install neomutt

MacPorts ports tree · mail/neomutt/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add neomutt

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · neomutt · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install neomutt

Debian stable package indexes · neomutt · source: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install neomutt

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · neomutt · source: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#neomutt

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ne/neomutt/package.nix · source: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S neomutt

Arch Linux sync databases · neomutt · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install neomutt

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · neomutt · source: download.opensuse.org

overview

Package summary

E-mail reader with support for Notmuch, NNTP and much more

Commands and aliases

  • neomutt

history

Project history and usage

NeoMutt is a terminal mail user agent that preserves Mutt's keyboard-driven Unix workflow while collecting and maintaining features that had long lived as external Mutt patches. Its package value comes from shipping those features together: Notmuch, NNTP, sidebar behavior, Lua, LMDB header caching, SMTP/IMAP/POP support, and extensive configuration.

Project history

NeoMutt's own history says Mutt was created by Michael Elkins in 1995 and became a favorite among terminal-mail users. NeoMutt formed in the mid-2010s when Richard Russon gathered long-standing Mutt patches, fixed and documented them, and made the result a 'project of projects' for developers and patch users.

Adoption history

NeoMutt grew by offering a maintained home for Mutt enhancements that distributions and users had been carrying separately. Its official history says regular releases and feature stabilization began in 2016, and the features page shows many stable features dated in 2016, including Notmuch, NNTP, sidebar, status color, progress bar, and trash-folder support.

How it is used

Package nerds use NeoMutt when they want mail in the terminal but do not want to assemble a patch stack themselves. Common setups pair it with local Maildir, isync/mbsync or OfflineIMAP, msmtp, GnuPG, address books, and Notmuch virtual mailboxes. The Homebrew formula's dependencies reflect that style: gpgme, notmuch, lmdb, lua, ncurses, pcre2, sqlite, OpenSSL, and related libraries.

Why package nerds care

NeoMutt is important because it turned the Mutt patch-stack culture into a packaged tool with regular releases. On the 2026-05-12 Homebrew API snapshot, the formula reported 6,330 installs over 365 days and 696 installs over 30 days, which is a healthy signal for a power-user terminal mail client.

Timeline

  • 1995: Mutt created by Michael Elkins, according to NeoMutt's history page.
  • 2015-12-21: neomutt/neomutt GitHub repository created.
  • 2016: NeoMutt begins regular releases and stabilizing fork features.
  • 2017-06-02: NeoMutt release notes made sidebar, IMAP, POP, SMTP, compressed, and NNTP always built.
  • 2026-05-04: Homebrew formula stable version 20260504.

Related projects

  • Mutt
  • Notmuch
  • Maildir
  • NNTP
  • GnuPG
  • isync
  • msmtp

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Installs with 12 runtime dependencies.
  • Build metadata lists 4 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

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
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/neomutt/neomuttrc~/.config/neomutt/neomuttrc~/.neomuttrc~/.neomutt/neomuttrc/etc/neomuttrc/etc/NeoMutt/neomuttrc

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
neomuttcliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version20260616
manager updated2026-06-22
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:neomutt
Version20260616
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/neomutt
Homepagehttps://neomutt.org/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/neomutt/neomutt
Upstream docshttps://docs.neomutt.org/
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Source archivehttps://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/archive/refs/tags/20260616.tar.gz
Last updated2026-06-22T14:05:36-07:00
Pulseupdated
Dependenciesgettext, gpgme, libgpg-error, libiconv, libidn2, lmdb, lua, ncurses, notmuch, openssl@3, pcre2, sqlite
Build dependenciesdocbook-xsl, gettext, pkgconf, tcl-tk
Uses from macOScyrus-sasl, krb5
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Nameneomutt
Version Scheme1
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Debian apt95%

neomutt 20250510+dfsg-2

command line mail reader based on Mutt, with added features

https://www.neomutt.org/

sudo apt install neomutt
  • Section: mail
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 18 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • 11 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Neomutt
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: neomutt from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Nix95%

neomutt

nix profile install nixpkgs#neomutt
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Neomutt
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ne/neomutt/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Ubuntu apt95%

neomutt 20231103+dfsg1-1build3

command line mail reader based on Mutt, with added features

http://www.neomutt.org/

sudo apt install neomutt
  • Section: universe/mail
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 18 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • 10 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Neomutt
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: neomutt from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
apk95%

neomutt 20260504-r0

Mutt with miscellaneous fixes and feature patches

https://neomutt.org/

sudo apk add neomutt
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: neomutt
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Neomutt
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: neomutt from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

neomutt-doc 20260504-r0

Mutt with miscellaneous fixes and feature patches (documentation)

https://neomutt.org/

sudo apk add neomutt-doc
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: neomutt
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Neomutt
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: neomutt-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

neomutt-lang 20260504-r0

Languages for package neomutt

https://neomutt.org/

sudo apk add neomutt-lang
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: neomutt
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Neomutt
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: neomutt-lang from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
dnf95%

neomutt 20260504-1.fc45

Text mode Mail Client

https://neomutt.org/

sudo dnf install neomutt
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND LicenseRef-Callaway-BSD AND LicenseRef-Callaway-MIT AND LicenseRef-Callaway-Public-Domain
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: neomutt
  • 22 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Neomutt
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: neomutt from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
pacman95%

neomutt 1:20260504-1

A version of mutt with added features

https://neomutt.org/

sudo pacman -S neomutt
  • License: GPL-2.0-only
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 16 dependencies
  • 3 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Neomutt
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: neomutt from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
zypper95%

neomutt 20260406-1.2

A command line mail reader (or MUA), a fork of Mutt with added features

https://neomutt.org

sudo zypper install neomutt
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Category: Productivity/Networking/Email/Clients
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: neomutt
  • 19 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Neomutt
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: neomutt from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

neomutt-contrib 20260406-1.2

Contrib scripts for Neomutt

https://neomutt.org

sudo zypper install neomutt-contrib
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Category: Productivity/Networking/Email/Clients
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: neomutt
  • 2 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Neomutt
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: neomutt-contrib from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

neomutt-doc 20260406-1.2

Additional documentation for neomutt

https://neomutt.org

sudo zypper install neomutt-doc
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Category: Documentation/Other
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: neomutt
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Neomutt
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: neomutt-doc from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

neomutt-lang 20260406-1.2

Translations for package neomutt

https://neomutt.org

sudo zypper install neomutt-lang
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Category: System/Localization
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: neomutt
  • 1 dependencies
  • 3 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Neomutt
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: neomutt-lang from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
MacPorts95%

neomutt

sudo port install neomutt
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Neomutt
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: mail/neomutt/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • gettextRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • gpgmeRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • libgpg-errorRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • libiconvRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • libidn2Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • lmdbRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • luaRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • ncursesRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

  • alotShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, notmuch, productivity, terminal.
  • himalayaShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, imap, productivity, smtp.
  • meliShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, imap, nntp, productivity.
  • nmailShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, imap, productivity, smtp.
  • popShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, productivity, smtp, terminal.
  • aercShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, productivity, terminal.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated configuration and credential file locations
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment