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
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