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6 mutt - The Mutt Mail User Agent
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9 mutt [-nRyzZ] [-e cmd] [-F file] [-m type] [-f file]
10 mutt [-nx] [-e cmd] [-F file] [-H file] [-i file] [-s subj] [-b addr]
12 [-c addr] [-a file [...]] [--] addr [...]
13 mutt [-n] [-e cmd] [-F file] -p
15 mutt [-n] [-e cmd] [-F file] -A alias
17 mutt [-n] [-e cmd] [-F file] -Q query
19 mutt -v[v]
21 mutt -D
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25 Mutt is a small but very powerful text based program for reading and
26 sending electronic mail under unix operating systems, including support
27 for color terminals, MIME, OpenPGP, and a threaded sorting mode.
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30 -A alias
31 An expanded version of the given alias is passed to stdout.
32 -a file [...]
34 Attach a file to your message using MIME. To attach multiple
35 files, separating filenames and recipient addresses with "--" is
36 mandatory, e.g. mutt -a img.jpg *.png -- addr1 addr2.
37 -b address
39 Specify a blind-carbon-copy (BCC) recipient
40 -c address
42 Specify a carbon-copy (CC) recipient
43 -d level
45 If mutt was complied with +DEBUG log debugging output to
46 ~/.muttdebug0. Level can range from 1-5 and effects verbosity.
47 A value of 2 is recommended.
48 -D Print the value of all configuration options to stdout.
50 -e command
52 Specify a configuration command to be run after processing of
53 initialization files.
54 -f mailbox
56 Specify which mailbox to load.
57 -F muttrc
59 Specify an initialization file to read instead of ~/.muttrc
60 -h Display help.
62 -H draft
64 Specify a draft file which contains header and body to use to
65 send a message.
66 -i include
68 Specify a file to include into the body of a message.
69 -m type
71 specify a default mailbox type
72 -n Causes Mutt to bypass the system configuration file.
74 -p Resume a postponed message.
76 -Q query
78 Query a configuration variables value. The query is executed
79 after all configuration files have been parsed, and any commands
80 given on the command line have been executed.
81 -R Open a mailbox in read-only mode.
83 -s subject
85 Specify the subject of the message.
86 -v Display the Mutt version number and compile-time definitions.
88 -vv Display license and copyright information.
90 -x Emulate the mailx compose mode.
92 -y Start Mutt with a listing of all mailboxes specified by the
94 mailboxes command.
95 -z When used with -f, causes Mutt not to start if there are no mes‐
97 sages in the mailbox.
98 -Z Causes Mutt to open the first mailbox specified by the mailboxes
100 command which contains new mail.
101 -- Treat remaining arguments as addr even if they start with a
103 dash. See also "-a" above.
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106 EDITOR Specifies the editor to use if VISUAL is unset.
107 EMAIL The user's e-mail address.
109 HOME Full path of the user's home directory.
111 MAIL Full path of the user's spool mailbox.
113 MAILDIR
115 Full path of the user's spool mailbox. Commonly used when the
116 spool mailbox is a maildir (5) folder.
117 MAILCAPS
119 Path to search for mailcap files.
120 MM_NOASK
122 If this variable is set, mailcap are always used without prompt‐
123 ing first.
124 PGPPATH
126 Directory in which the user's PGP public keyring can be found.
127 TMPDIR Directory in which temporary files are created.
129 REPLYTO
131 Default Reply-To address.
132 VISUAL Specifies the editor to use when composing messages.
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136 ~/.muttrc or ~/.mutt/muttrc
137 User configuration file.
138 /etc/Muttrc
140 System-wide configuration file.
141 /tmp/muttXXXXXX
143 Temporary files created by Mutt.
144 ~/.mailcap
146 User definition for handling non-text MIME types.
147 /etc/mailcap
149 System definition for handling non-text MIME types.
150 ~/.mime.types
152 User's personal mapping between MIME types and file extensions.
153 /etc/mime.types
155 System mapping between MIME types and file extensions.
156 /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock
158 The privileged dotlocking program.
159 /usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.17/manual.txt
161 The Mutt manual.
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164 None. Mutts have fleas, not bugs.
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167 Suspend/resume while editing a file with an external editor does not
168 work under SunOS 4.x if you use the curses lib in /usr/5lib. It does
169 work with the S-Lang library, however.
170 Resizing the screen while using an external pager causes Mutt to go
172 haywire on some systems.
173 Suspend/resume does not work under Ultrix.
175 The help line for the index menu is not updated if you change the bind‐
177 ings for one of the functions listed while Mutt is running.
178 For a more up-to-date list of bugs, errm, fleas, please visit the mutt
180 project's bug tracking system under http://bugs.mutt.org/.
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183 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
184 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER‐
185 CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
186 Public License for more details.
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189 curses(3), mailcap(5), maildir(5), mbox(5), mutt_dotlock(1), muttrc(5),
190 ncurses(3), sendmail(1), smail(1).
191 Mutt Home Page: http://www.mutt.org/
193 The Mutt manual
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197 Michael Elkins, and others. Use <mutt-dev@mutt.org> to contact the
198 developers.
199Unix March 2007 mutt(1)