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mutt - The Mutt Mail User Agent
mutt [-nRyzZ]
[-e cmd] [-F file] [-m type] [-f file]
mutt [-nx] [-e cmd] [-a file] [-F file]
[-H file] [-i file] [-s subj] [-b addr] [-c addr] addr [...]
mutt [-n] [-e cmd] [-F
file] -p
mutt [-n] [-e cmd] [-F file] -Q query
mutt [-n] [-e cmd] [-F file] -A alias
mutt -v[v]
Mutt is a small but very powerful text based program
for reading electronic mail under unix operating systems, including support
color terminals, MIME, and a threaded sorting mode.
- -A alias
- An expanded
version of the given alias is passed to stdout.
- -a file
- Attach a file to your
message using MIME.
- -b address
- Specify a blind-carbon-copy (BCC) recipient
- -c
address
- Specify a carbon-copy (CC) recipient
- -e command
- Specify a configuration
command to be run after processing of initialization files.
- -f mailbox
- Specify
which mailbox to load.
- -F muttrc
- Specify an initialization file to read instead
of ~/.muttrc
- -h
- Display help.
- -H draft
- Specify a draft file which contains header
and body to use to send a message.
- -i include
- Specify a file to include into
the body of a message.
- -m type
- specify a default mailbox type
- -n
- Causes
Mutt to bypass the system configuration file.
- -p
- Resume a postponed message.
- -Q query
- Qeury a configuration variables value. The query is executed after
all configuration files have been parsed, and any commands given on the
command line have been executed.
- -R
- Open a mailbox in read-only mode.
- -s subject
- Specify
the subject of the message.
- -v
- Display the Mutt version number and compile-time
definitions.
- -x
- Emulate the mailx compose mode.
- -y
- Start Mutt with a listing
of all mailboxes specified by the mailboxes command.
- -z
- When used with -f,
causes Mutt not to start if there are no messages in the mailbox.
- -Z
- Causes
Mutt to open the first mailbox specified by the mailboxes command which
contains new mail.
- EDITOR
- Specifies the editor to use if VISUAL
is unset.
- EMAIL
- The user's e-mail address.
- HOME
- Full path of the user's home directory.
- MAIL
- Full path of the user's spool mailbox.
- MAILDIR
- Full path of the user's
spool mailbox. Commonly used when the spool mailbox is a maildir (5)
folder.
- MAILCAPS
- Path to search for mailcap files.
- MM_NOASK
- If this variable is set,
mailcap are always used without prompting first.
- PGPPATH
- Directory in which
the user's PGP public keyring can be found.
- TMPDIR
- Directory in which temporary
files are created.
- REPLYTO
- Default Reply-To address.
- VISUAL
- Specifies the editor
to use when composing messages.
- ~/.muttrc or ~/.mutt/muttrc
- User configuration
file.
- /etc/Muttrc
- System-wide configuration file.
- /tmp/muttXXXXXX
- Temporary
files created by Mutt.
- ~/.mailcap
- User definition for handling non-text MIME
types.
- /etc/mailcap
- System definition for handling non-text MIME types.
- ~/.mime.types
- User's
personal mapping between MIME types and file extensions.
- /etc/mime.types
- System
mapping between MIME types and file extensions.
- /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock
- The
privileged dotlocking program.
- /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz
- The Mutt manual.
None. Mutts have fleas, not bugs.
Suspend/resume while editing
a file with an external editor does not work under SunOS 4.x if you use
the curses lib in /usr/5lib. It does work with the S-Lang library, however.
Resizing the screen while using an external pager causes Mutt to go haywire
on some systems.
suspend/resume does not work under Ultrix.
The help line
for the index menu is not updated if you change the bindings for one of
the functions listed while Mutt is running.
For a more up-to-date list of
bugs, errm, fleas, please visit the mutt project's bug tracking system under
http://bugs.guug.de/.
To report a bug, please use the flea(1)
program.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
for more details.
curses(3)
, flea(1)
, mailcap(5)
, maildir(5)
, mbox(5)
,
mutt_dotlock(1)
, muttrc(5)
, ncurses(3)
, sendmail(1)
, smail(1)
Mutt Home
Page: http://www.mutt.org/
The Mutt manual
The GNU General Public License.
Michael Elkins, and others. Use <mutt-dev@mutt.org> to contact the developers.
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