Security Experts... let me quote Linus Torvalds: &quot;the security community tends to be very black and white. Either it&#x27;s security or it&#x27;s not. And if it is security, they care deeply. And if it is not, they don&#x27;t care.&quot;<p>So who cares if you write your email in text mode but browse the web with Chrome&#x2F;Firefox? No offense against Mutt... I can understand that some terminal pros like it but I cannot understand using it for security sake. So what happens if you want to view a html email? What about mail on a mobile phone (I guess security experts do not use them)?<p>And mutt has other attack surface because it is using the terminal. Look here for a Ubuntu security notice about mutt: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ubuntu.com&#x2F;usn&#x2F;usn-2440-1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ubuntu.com&#x2F;usn&#x2F;usn-2440-1&#x2F;</a>
Now I smile because gmail is not affected by that!<p>This is all not practical for 99,9% of normal users out there.<p>If you care about security do not let the paranoia control you. We need to improve security for the normal users out there. Just my opinion.