mailutils ☆

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Description:
Swiss Army knife of email handling

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 3.21@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 12, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: System utilities

Tags: email cli utility imap mua

Install: brew install mailutils

About:
GNU Mailutils is a robust, swiss-army-knife utility for handling email. It provides a rich set of command-line tools and libraries for processing, storing, retrieving, and transmitting electronic mail. Its primary value is in scripting and automating complex email workflows directly from the terminal.

Key Features:

Comprehensive suite of command-line email clients (movemail, sieve, etc.)
Supports multiple mailbox formats including mbox, Maildir, and MH
Provides a powerful IMAP4 library for remote mailbox access
Includes a flexible framework for mail filtering and processing

Use Cases:

Automating server-side email processing and filtering with Sieve
Scripting email notifications and reports from shell scripts
Managing and migrating emails between different remote servers and formats

Alternatives:

mutt – Mutt is a text-based mail user agent (MUA), whereas Mailutils is a suite of utilities for mail transport and processing.
heirloom-mailx – Heirloom-mailx is a lightweight sendmail client, while Mailutils offers a broader set of tools including IMAP libraries and filtering.

Version History

Detected	Rev	Change	Commit
Dec 12, 2025 8:18am	0	VERSION_BUMP	e2cb881c
Nov 7, 2025 3:51pm	1	VERSION_BUMP	afc26702
Nov 4, 2025 8:45pm	1	VERSION_BUMP	b17de246
May 1, 2023 12:44pm	0	VERSION_BUMP	451c7747