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Mutt developer resources

Bug tracking system

This trac exists primarily for bug tracking: see report:3

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• a short meaningful summary
• a procedure to reproduce the problem
• careful selections of the priority, component and type property fields
• the keyword "patch" if you have a proposed solution

See DebugTips for diagnostic methods to speed resolution of the bug.

Documentation

Browse the ​manual for the development version, updated nightly.

Code

The source code is maintained in a ​Mercurial repository ​here. You can pull your own copy for hacking with

hg clone https://dev.mutt.org/hg/mutt

This will default to the default branch, where mainline development happens. Afterwards, hg pull -u should keep you up to date.

There is also the stable branch where the latest stable version of mutt is tracked. Bugfixes are committed into stable and then merged back into default, while new features go into default.

Nightly snapshots

Download a nightly snapshot of the mutt distribution ​here

Release roadmap

The roadmap has the current list of bugs blocking the release of Mutt 1.6. There is also a TODO for the next point release here.

Developer Resources

The mutt source contains some developer resources in the contrib/ subdirectory, namely:

• ​https://dev.mutt.org/hg/mutt/raw-file/tip/doc/devel-notes.txt

When preparing/maintaining 3rd patches, see:

• ​https://dev.mutt.org/hg/mutt/raw-file/tip/doc/applying-patches.txt
• ​https://dev.mutt.org/hg/mutt/raw-file/tip/doc/patch-notes.txt
• PatchList

Brainstorming

This lists topics that we're currently collecting ideas for:

• NewMailHandling overhaul
• UnifyMailboxInterface (more issues than only new mail handling)
• MailboxDriverCleanup and MAPI support

Mailing lists

An overview of mailing lists (for devs, users and others) can be found at http://www.mutt.org/mail-lists.html.