The common reference for a MUA, this is the program you run on your computer to talk e-mail.
Evolution, MozillaMail, KMail, Sylpheed
Outlook, OutlookExpress, Eudora
SquirrelMail, IMP, Outlook Web Access
Relevant standards include RFC:822 (or the updated RFC:2822), and MIME
Quick summary of message creation from the command line:
|Client|Command |Evolution (v1.4)|evolution 'mailto:addr?subject=subject&attach=filename&body=text' |Mutt (v1.5.6i)|mutt -a attach_filename -s subject addr | |or mutt -a filename 'mailto:addr?subject=subject&body=text' |MozillaMail (v1.7.3)|mozilla -remote 'mailto(addr1, addr2)' | |or mozilla 'mailto:addr?subject=subject&body=text' |Thunderbird| ? | AddToMe | ?
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