Set Mutt As Your Default Email Reader

Mutt is the greatest mail client on any platform. It’s quick, simple,
extensible and configurable, you can use your favorite editor for writing
emails and more. However one bad thing is that by default you can’t set it
as your default email reader, and by default I mean that when you click on a
mailto link (like this one) it won’t automatically pop-up and begin your email.

There is a fix and that is MailtoMutt, which you can get here. MailtoMutt is a very
simple application that runs in the background and handles mailto urls for
Mutt. Here’s the actual download site on sourceforge, since the last build
is a little old it’s only binary is for the PPC architecture so we’re going
to build our own native binary (for either Intel or PPC).

So download this
version (mailtomutt-0.4.1.tar.gz). Unpack it and go to the directory in
the terminal (cd to wherever you unpacked it, probably in your
Download folder). Then in the folder that you unpacked that contains the
source and especially the Xcode Project run the command
xcodebuild. Now move the MailtoMutt.app that is located in the
folder build/Default (you can click and drag or do mv
build/Default/MailtoMutt.app /Applications) to your /Applications folder.

Now to set it as your default mail reader go to Systems and Preferences open
up RCDefaultApp and go to Email in the Internet tab and make the Default
Application MailtoMutt. And now you’re done, every time you click on a
mailto url it will open up for you in Mutt.

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