When updating mutt from an earlier release or from Mercurial, please make sure to read the compatibility notes in ``UPDATING''. Older changes between mutt-1.2 and mutt-1.4 are listed in NEWS.
If you got the mutt source code from the public Mercurial repository (http://dev.mutt.org/hg/mutt/), please read doc/devel-notes.txt to make sure that you have a complete development environment.
Installation instructions are detailed in ``INSTALL''. The user manual is in doc/manual.txt. PGP users should read doc/PGP-Notes.txt.
Before you start hacking on mutt, read doc/devel-notes.txt. Before applying patches to mutt, read doc/applying-patches.txt. Please, read these files, as they will save you from asking FAQs.
For more information, see the Mutt home page:
The primary distribution points for Mutt is:
ftp://ftp.mutt.org/pub/mutt
A list of mirror sites can be found under http://www.mutt.org/download.html.