When comparing fzf vs Mutt, the Slant community recommends fzf for most people. In the question“What are the best shell powertools?” fzf is ranked 2nd while Mutt is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose fzf is:
Has many useful bash improvements like fuzzy CD, fuzzy insert path to file, etc.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Many improvements for bash
Has many useful bash improvements like fuzzy CD, fuzzy insert path to file, etc.
Pro Terminal based
Pro Small and efficient
Pro Active development
Even though it was first released in 1995, Mutt still enjoys an active community following it and having new releases constantly.
Pro It runs inside the terminal
It doesn't display HTML email, fonts, or graphical elements.
Pro Compose mails in your favorite editor
Edit mails efficiently with an editor you already can work fluently with.
Pro Highly configurable macros
Pro Threads emails
Pro Work with regular expressions
Mails can be filtered, deleted, flagged, etc. with regular expressions which makes mail management very efficient.
Cons
Con Terminal-based
It runs inside the terminal so it doesn't display HTML email, fonts, or graphical elements.