mutt

mutt is a useful mail user agent. However, it requires a functioning mail transfer agent running on the localhost for it to be able to work easily.

since the default ubuntu install doesn't include an MTA, you can't easily install mutt.

However, we probably want to have an MTA installed for other reasons. once that's installed, installing mutt should be as simple as:

[dkg@metis ~]$ sudo apt-get install mutt
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
  urlview mixmaster openssl ca-certificates
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  mutt
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/679kB of archives.
After unpacking 3854kB of additional disk space will be used.

Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package mutt.
(Reading database ... 60988 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mutt (from .../mutt_1.5.9-2ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up mutt (1.5.9-2ubuntu1) ...

[dkg@metis ~]$