All mail clients suck. Mutt just sucks less. This one just sucks less than Mutt.

WARNING: Development is in the early stage, so not all features will work yet. However, I use it myself already to manage my mails.

Muttator is part of the liberator project which tries to make even more programs accessible as vim:

• vimperator: Make Firefox behave like Vim

Introduction

Muttator is a free browser add-on for Thunderbird, which makes it look and behave like the Vim text editor. It has similar key bindings, and you could call it a modal mail client, as key bindings differ according to which mode you are in.

Warning: To provide the most authentic Vim experience, the Thunderbird menubar and toolbar were hidden.
If you really need them, type: :set guioptions+=mT to get them back.
If you don't like Muttator at all, you can uninstall it by typing :addons and remove/disable it.
If you like it, but can't remember the shortcuts, press F1 or :help to get this help window back.

Muttator was written by Martin Stubenschrott. If you appreciate my work on Muttator and want to encourage me working on it more, you can either send me greetings, patches or make a donation:

Of course as a believer in free open source software, only make a donation if you really like Muttator and the money doesn't hurt - otherwise just use it, recommend it and like it :)

Downloads

NOTE: You will need a recent Thunderbird3 alpha to use Muttator.

• Version 0.4 (Released: 2008-08-03)
• Version 0.3 (Released: 2008-06-04)

Features

• Vim-like keybindings (h,j,k,l,gg,G,0,$,ZZ,<C-f>,etc.)
• Ex-commands (:quit, :goto Inbox, ...)
• Tab completion available for all commands with support for 'longest' matching when set in 'wildmode'
• Hit-a-hint like navigation of links (start with 'f' to follow a link)
• Minimal GUI (easily hide useless menubar and toolbar with :set guioptions=)
• Ability to :source javascript files, and to use a ~/.muttatorrc file
• Count supported for many commands (3<C-o> will go back 3 pages)
• Beep on errors
• :map support (and feedkeys() for script writers)
• :time support for profiling
• Many other vimperator features are available when in Message mode

Contact

Please send comments/bug reports/patches to the mailing list, where I will properly answer any questions. You can also join the #vimperator IRC channel on irc.freenode.net or check the Wiki for planned features. Make sure, you have read the TODO file first, as I am aware of many things which can be improved when I find time for it or get patches.