The Mutt E-Mail Client

by Michael Elkins <me@cs.hmc.edu>

version 1.4

``All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.'' -me, circa 1995

1. Introduction

1.1. Mutt Home Page

1.2. Mailing Lists

1.3. Software Distribution Sites

1.4. IRC

2. Getting Started

2.1. Moving Around in Menus

2.2. Editing Input Fields

2.3. Reading Mail - The Index and Pager

2.4. Sending Mail

2.5. Forwarding and Bouncing Mail

2.6. Postponing Mail

3. Configuration

3.1. Syntax of Initialization Files

3.2. Defining/Using aliases

3.3. Changing the default key bindings

3.4. Defining aliases for character sets

3.5. Setting variables based upon mailbox

3.6. Keyboard macros

3.7. Using color and mono video attributes

3.8. Ignoring (weeding) unwanted message headers

3.9. Mailing lists

3.10. Using Multiple spool mailboxes

3.11. Defining mailboxes which receive mail

3.12. User defined headers

3.13. Defining the order of headers when viewing messages

3.14. Specify default save filename

3.15. Specify default Fcc: mailbox when composing

3.16. Specify default save filename and default Fcc: mailbox at once

3.17. Change settings based upon message recipients

3.18. Change settings before formatting a message

3.19. Choosing the PGP key of the recipient

3.20. Adding key sequences to the keyboard buffer

3.21. Executing functions

3.22. Message Scoring

3.23. Setting variables

3.24. Reading initialization commands from another file

3.25. Removing hooks

4. Advanced Usage

4.1. Regular Expressions

4.3. Using Tags

4.4. Using Hooks

4.5. External Address Queries

4.6. Mailbox Formats

4.7. Mailbox Shortcuts

4.8. Handling Mailing Lists

4.9. Delivery Status Notification (DSN) Support

4.10. POP3 Support (OPTIONAL)

4.11. IMAP Support (OPTIONAL)

4.12. Managing multiple IMAP/POP accounts (OPTIONAL)

4.13. Start a WWW Browser on URLs (EXTERNAL)

4.14. Compressed folders Support (OPTIONAL)

5. Mutt's MIME Support

5.1. Using MIME in Mutt

5.2. MIME Type configuration with mime.types

5.3. MIME Viewer configuration with mailcap

5.4. MIME Autoview

5.5. MIME Multipart/Alternative

6. Reference

6.1. Command line options

6.2. Configuration Commands

6.3. Configuration variables

7. Miscellany

7.1. Acknowledgements

7.2. About this document