diff --git a/packages/mutt/build.sh b/packages/mutt/build.sh
index 814f3e0d2..69512a4b9 100644
--- a/packages/mutt/build.sh
+++ b/packages/mutt/build.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=http://www.mutt.org/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Mail client with patches from neomutt"
-_MUTT_VERSION=1.6.2
-_NEOMUTT_PATCHES=20160808
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MUTT_VERSION}.$_NEOMUTT_PATCHES
-TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=ftp://ftp.mutt.org/pub/mutt/mutt-${_MUTT_VERSION}.tar.gz
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.7.0
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=ftp://ftp.mutt.org/pub/mutt/mutt-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=1d3e987433d8c92ef88a604f4dcefdb35a86ce73f3eff0157e2e491e5b55b345
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libandroid-support, ncurses, gdbm, openssl, libsasl"
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--enable-smtp --enable-imap --enable-pop --with-mailpath=$TERMUX_PREFIX/var/mail --with-ssl --enable-compressed --without-idn --enable-hcache --with-sasl"
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS+=" --with-exec-shell=$TERMUX_PREFIX/bin/sh"
@@ -14,21 +13,6 @@ TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS+=" --disable-gpgme"
 # bin/{flea,muttbug}: File bug against mutt:
 TERMUX_PKG_RM_AFTER_INSTALL="bin/flea bin/muttbug share/man/man1/muttbug.1 share/man/man1/flea.1"
 
-termux_step_post_extract_package () {
-	local PATCHES_TARNAME=neomutt-patches-${_NEOMUTT_PATCHES}.tar.gz
-	local PATCHES_TARPATH=$TERMUX_PKG_CACHEDIR/neomutt-patches-${_NEOMUTT_PATCHES}.tar.gz
-	if [ ! -f $PATCHES_TARPATH ]; then
-		curl --retry 3 -L -o $PATCHES_TARPATH https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/releases/download/neomutt-${_NEOMUTT_PATCHES}/$PATCHES_TARNAME
-	fi
-
-	local PATCHES_DIR=$TERMUX_PKG_TMPDIR/neomutt-patches
-	mkdir -p $PATCHES_DIR
-	$TERMUX_TAR -xf $PATCHES_TARPATH --directory $PATCHES_DIR
-
-	cd $TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR
-	patch --forward -p1 < $PATCHES_DIR/neomutt-${_NEOMUTT_PATCHES}/neomutt-${_NEOMUTT_PATCHES}.patch || true
-}
-
 termux_step_post_configure () {
 	# Build wants to run mutt_md5 and makedoc:
 	gcc -DHAVE_STDINT_H -DMD5UTIL $TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR/md5.c -o $TERMUX_PKG_BUILDDIR/mutt_md5
diff --git a/packages/mutt/makefile.in.patch b/packages/mutt/makefile.in.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 723fbcf38..000000000
--- a/packages/mutt/makefile.in.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -u -r ../mutt-1.5.24/Makefile.in ./Makefile.in
---- ../mutt-1.5.24/Makefile.in	2015-08-30 13:24:26.000000000 -0400
-+++ ./Makefile.in	2015-11-08 01:39:51.544139704 -0500
-@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@
- AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.6 foreign
- @BUILD_IMAP_TRUE@IMAP_SUBDIR = imap
- @BUILD_IMAP_TRUE@IMAP_INCLUDES = -I$(top_srcdir)/imap
--SUBDIRS = m4 po intl doc contrib $(IMAP_SUBDIR)
-+SUBDIRS = m4 po intl contrib $(IMAP_SUBDIR)
- bin_SCRIPTS = muttbug flea $(SMIMEAUX_TARGET)
- @BUILD_HCACHE_TRUE@HCVERSION = hcversion.h
- BUILT_SOURCES = keymap_defs.h patchlist.c reldate.h conststrings.c $(HCVERSION)