The Mutt E-Mail Client
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Mutt Home Page
- 1.2. Mailing Lists
- 1.3. Software Distribution Sites
- 1.4. IRC
- 1.5. USENET
- 1.6. Copyright
- 2. Getting Started
- 2.1. Moving Around in Menus
- 2.2. Editing Input Fields
- 2.3. Reading Mail - The Index and Pager
- 2.3.1. The Message Index
- 2.3.1.1. Status Flags
- 2.3.2. The Pager
- 2.3.3. Threaded Mode
- 2.3.4. Miscellaneous Functions
- 2.4. Sending Mail
- 2.4.1. Editing the message header
- 2.5. Postponing Mail
- 3. Configuration
- 3.1. Syntax of Initialization Files
- 3.2. Defining/Using aliases
- 3.3. Changing the default key bindings
- 3.4. Setting variables based upon mailbox
- 3.5. Keyboard macros
- 3.6. Using color and mono video attributes
- 3.7. Ignoring (weeding) unwanted message headers
- 3.8. Mailing lists
- 3.9. Using Multiple spool mailboxes
- 3.10. Defining mailboxes which receive mail
- 3.11. User defined headers
- 3.12. Defining the order of headers when viewing messages
- 3.13. Specify default save filename
- 3.14. Specify default Fcc: mailbox when composing
- 3.15. Specify default save filename and default Fcc: mailbox at once
- 3.16. Change settings based upon message recipients
- 3.17. Adding key sequences to the keyboard buffer
- 3.18. Message Scoring
- 3.19. Setting variables
- 3.20. Reading initialization commands from another file
- 4. Advanced Usage
- 4.1. Searching and Regular Expressions
- 4.1.1. Regular Expressions
- 4.1.2. Searching
- 4.1.3. Complex Searches
- 4.1.4. Searching by Date
- 4.2. Using Tags
- 4.3. Using Hooks
- 4.3.1. Message Matching in Hooks
- 4.4. External Address Queries
- 4.5. Mailbox Formats
- 4.6. Mailbox Shortcuts
- 4.7. Handling Mailing Lists
- 4.8. Delivery Status Notification (DSN) Support
- 4.9. POP3 Support (OPTIONAL)
- 4.10. IMAP Support (OPTIONAL)
- 5. Mutt's MIME Support
- 5.1. Using MIME in Mutt
- 5.1.1. Viewing MIME messages in the pager
- 5.1.2. The Attachment Menu
- 5.1.3. The Compose Menu
- 5.2. MIME Type configuration with
mime.types
- 5.3. MIME Viewer configuration with
mailcap
- 5.3.1. The Basics of the mailcap file
- 5.3.2. Advanced mailcap Usage
- 5.3.2.1. Optional Fields
- 5.3.2.2. Search Order
- 5.3.2.3. Command Expansion
- 5.3.3. Example mailcap files
- 5.4. MIME Autoview
- 5.5. MIME Multipart/Alternative
- 6. Reference
- 6.1. Command line options
- 6.2. Configuration Commands
- 6.3. Configuration variables
- 6.3.1. abort_nosubject
- 6.3.2. abort_unmodified
- 6.3.3. alias_file
- 6.3.4. alias_format
- 6.3.5. allow_8bit
- 6.3.6. alternates
- 6.3.7. arrow_cursor
- 6.3.8. ascii_chars
- 6.3.9. askbcc
- 6.3.10. askcc
- 6.3.11. attribution
- 6.3.12. autoedit
- 6.3.13. auto_tag
- 6.3.14. beep
- 6.3.15. beep_new
- 6.3.16. charset
- 6.3.17. check_new
- 6.3.18. confirmappend
- 6.3.19. confirmcreate
- 6.3.20. copy
- 6.3.21. date_format
- 6.3.22. default_hook
- 6.3.23. delete
- 6.3.24. delete_format
- 6.3.25. dsn_notify
- 6.3.26. dsn_return
- 6.3.27. edit_headers
- 6.3.28. editor
- 6.3.29. escape
- 6.3.30. fast_reply
- 6.3.31. fcc_attach
- 6.3.32. folder
- 6.3.33. folder_format
- 6.3.34. followup_to
- 6.3.35. force_name
- 6.3.36. forward_decode
- 6.3.37. forward_format
- 6.3.38. forward_quote
- 6.3.39. hdrs
- 6.3.40. header
- 6.3.41. help
- 6.3.42. history
- 6.3.43. hostname
- 6.3.44. ignore_list_reply_to
- 6.3.45. imap_checkinterval
- 6.3.46. imap_pass
- 6.3.47. imap_user
- 6.3.48. in_reply_to
- 6.3.49. include
- 6.3.50. indent_string
- 6.3.51. index_format
- 6.3.52. ispell
- 6.3.53. locale
- 6.3.54. mailcap_path
- 6.3.55. mail_check
- 6.3.56. mark_old
- 6.3.57. markers
- 6.3.58. mask
- 6.3.59. mbox
- 6.3.60. mbox_type
- 6.3.61. metoo
- 6.3.62. menu_scroll
- 6.3.63. meta_key
- 6.3.64. mime_forward
- 6.3.65. mime_forward_decode
- 6.3.66. move
- 6.3.67. message_format
- 6.3.68. pager
- 6.3.69. pager_context
- 6.3.70. pager_format
- 6.3.71. pager_index_lines
- 6.3.72. pager_stop
- 6.3.73. pgp_autoencrypt
- 6.3.74. pgp_autosign
- 6.3.75. pgp_default_version
- 6.3.76. pgp_encryptself
- 6.3.77. pgp_gpg
- 6.3.78. pgp_key_version
- 6.3.79. pgp_long_ids
- 6.3.80. pgp_receive_version
- 6.3.81. pgp_replyencrypt
- 6.3.82. pgp_replysign
- 6.3.83. pgp_send_version
- 6.3.84. pgp_sign_as
- 6.3.85. pgp_sign_micalg
- 6.3.86. pgp_strict_enc
- 6.3.87. pgp_timeout
- 6.3.88. pgp_v2
- 6.3.89. pgp_v2_language
- 6.3.90. pgp_v2_pubring
- 6.3.91. pgp_v2_secring
- 6.3.92. pgp_v5
- 6.3.93. pgp_v5_language
- 6.3.94. pgp_v5_pubring
- 6.3.95. pgp_v5_secring
- 6.3.96. pipe_decode
- 6.3.97. pipe_sep
- 6.3.98. pipe_split
- 6.3.99. pop_delete
- 6.3.100. pop_host
- 6.3.101. pop_pass
- 6.3.102. pop_port
- 6.3.103. pop_user
- 6.3.104. post_indent_string
- 6.3.105. postpone
- 6.3.106. postponed
- 6.3.107. print
- 6.3.108. print_command
- 6.3.109. prompt_after
- 6.3.110. query_command
- 6.3.111. quit
- 6.3.112. quote_regexp
- 6.3.113. read_inc
- 6.3.114. read_only
- 6.3.115. realname
- 6.3.116. recall
- 6.3.117. record
- 6.3.118. reply_regexp
- 6.3.119. reply_to
- 6.3.120. resolve
- 6.3.121. reverse_alias
- 6.3.122. reverse_name
- 6.3.123. save_address
- 6.3.124. save_empty
- 6.3.125. save_name
- 6.3.126. sendmail
- 6.3.127. sendmail_wait
- 6.3.128. shell
- 6.3.129. sig_dashes
- 6.3.130. signature
- 6.3.131. simple_search
- 6.3.132. smart_wrap
- 6.3.133. sort
- 6.3.134. sort_alias
- 6.3.135. sort_aux
- 6.3.136. sort_browser
- 6.3.137. spoolfile
- 6.3.138. sort_re
- 6.3.139. status_chars
- 6.3.140. status_format
- 6.3.141. status_on_top
- 6.3.142. strict_threads
- 6.3.143. suspend
- 6.3.144. thorough_search
- 6.3.145. tilde
- 6.3.146. timeout
- 6.3.147. tmpdir
- 6.3.148. to_chars
- 6.3.149. use_8bitmime
- 6.3.150. use_domain
- 6.3.151. use_from
- 6.3.152. use_mailcap
- 6.3.153. pgp_verify_sig
- 6.3.154. visual
- 6.3.155. wait_key
- 6.3.156. wrap_search
- 6.3.157. write_inc
- 6.4. Functions
- 6.4.1. generic
- 6.4.2. index
- 6.4.3. pager
- 6.4.4. alias
- 6.4.5. query
- 6.4.6. attach
- 6.4.7. compose
- 6.4.8. postponed
- 6.4.9. browser
- 6.4.10. pgp
- 6.4.11. editor
- 7. Miscellany
- 7.1. Acknowledgements
- 7.2. About this document