AFAIK in Stretch Mutt actually means Neomutt. There was a flamewar between the package maintainer and the Mutt guy a while ago about that. It wasn't pretty[1,2]. In Buster, Mutt means Mutt, and Neomutt means Neomutt. I suppose if you want to use "Vanilla" Mutt in Stretch you need to get it some other way. [1] https://jmtd.net/log/mutt_year_zero [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=870635 --Francisco On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 03:56 +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Debian 9 (amd64), I installed Mutt. The synaptic description says the > package is 1.7.2 and has neoMutt patches. But the "V" command in Mutt reports > the version as "NeoMutt 20170113 (1.7.2)". > > I searched and read a number of list threads on the matter of Mutt vs. > neoMutt, but most of the threads I found were a few years old, so I do not > know the outcome of the matter. I also found a web page which says that > Debian 10 is going to offer a "neoMutt" package. Does this mean that Debian > 10 also is going to offer a "Mutt" package, or is neoMutt going to be the sole > Mutt offering? > > I used Mutt years ago; I wish now to run the stable version of the original > Mutt, maintained by Elkins and company. And, if at all possible, I wish to > install an official Mutt package from the Debian repository. > > -- []'s, Francisco M Neto GPG: 4096R/D692FBF0
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