Checked on a couple of machines, and most seem to have libncurses-dev installed. Assuming that is for you (dpkg -l |grep curses-dev), should take about 20 seconds, and be as simple as
$ curl -O http://ftp.mutt.org/pub/mutt/mutt-2.2.13.tar.gz $ tar xvzf mutt-2.2.13.tar.gz $ cd mutt-2.2.13 ## Adjust flags and patches to your liking $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME --enable-imap --enable-smtp \ --enable-hcache --disable-flock $ make $ make install Then just add ~/bin/ to your $PATH. Even though tokyo / kyoto cabinet runtime is enabled, you may need to lcoally download the headers, or get them to install the devel packages for you, to be able to build with --with-tokyocabinet or --with-kyotocabinet (if you're using header cache, worth spending the time, though, and either way, make sure to enable the header cache for IMAP). You'll run into permissions issues setting permissions on mutt_dotlock, but that shouldn't be an issue since you're using IMAP anyway (IIRC it's only needed for mail spool files in /var/mail with certain local permissions anyway). [iad1-shared-b8-29]$ ./mutt -v Mutt 2.2.13 (2024-03-09) Copyright (C) 1996-2023 Michael R. Elkins and others. Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'. Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details. System: Linux 5.15.86-grsec-bnxt-focal+ (x86_64) ncurses: ncurses 6.2.20200212 (compiled with 6.2) hcache backend: GDBM version 1.18.1. 27/10/2018 [...] w
