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. 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. 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. Choosing the PGP key of the recipient
- 3.18. Adding key sequences to the keyboard buffer
- 3.19. Message Scoring
- 3.20. Setting variables
- 3.21. Reading initialization commands from another file
- 4. Advanced Usage
- 4.1. Regular Expressions
- 4.2. Patterns
- 4.2.1. Pattern Modifier
- 4.2.2. Complex Patterns
- 4.2.3. Searching by Date
- 4.3. Using Tags
- 4.4. Using Hooks
- 4.4.1. Message Matching in 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. Start a WWW Browser on URLs (EXTERNAL)
- 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. Secure use of mailcap
- 5.3.3. Advanced mailcap Usage
- 5.3.3.1. Optional Fields
- 5.3.3.2. Search Order
- 5.3.3.3. Command Expansion
- 5.3.4. 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. attach_format
- 6.3.12. attach_sep
- 6.3.13. attach_split
- 6.3.14. attribution
- 6.3.15. autoedit
- 6.3.16. auto_tag
- 6.3.17. beep
- 6.3.18. beep_new
- 6.3.19. bounce_delivered
- 6.3.20. charset
- 6.3.21. check_new
- 6.3.22. collapse_unread
- 6.3.23. confirmappend
- 6.3.24. confirmcreate
- 6.3.25. copy
- 6.3.26. date_format
- 6.3.27. default_hook
- 6.3.28. delete
- 6.3.29. dsn_notify
- 6.3.30. dsn_return
- 6.3.31. edit_headers
- 6.3.32. editor
- 6.3.33. escape
- 6.3.34. fast_reply
- 6.3.35. fcc_attach
- 6.3.36. folder
- 6.3.37. folder_format
- 6.3.38. followup_to
- 6.3.39. force_name
- 6.3.40. forward_decode
- 6.3.41. forward_decrypt
- 6.3.42. forward_format
- 6.3.43. forward_quote
- 6.3.44. forward_weed
- 6.3.45. hdrs
- 6.3.46. header
- 6.3.47. help
- 6.3.48. hidden_host
- 6.3.49. history
- 6.3.50. hostname
- 6.3.51. ignore_list_reply_to
- 6.3.52. imap_checkinterval
- 6.3.53. imap_pass
- 6.3.54. imap_user
- 6.3.55. implicit_autoview
- 6.3.56. in_reply_to
- 6.3.57. include
- 6.3.58. indent_string
- 6.3.59. index_format
- 6.3.60. ispell
- 6.3.61. locale
- 6.3.62. mailcap_path
- 6.3.63. mailcap_sanitize
- 6.3.64. mail_check
- 6.3.65. mark_old
- 6.3.66. markers
- 6.3.67. mask
- 6.3.68. mbox
- 6.3.69. mbox_type
- 6.3.70. metoo
- 6.3.71. menu_scroll
- 6.3.72. meta_key
- 6.3.73. mh_purge
- 6.3.74. mime_forward
- 6.3.75. mime_forward_decode
- 6.3.76. move
- 6.3.77. message_format
- 6.3.78. pager
- 6.3.79. pager_context
- 6.3.80. pager_format
- 6.3.81. pager_index_lines
- 6.3.82. pager_stop
- 6.3.83. pgp_autoencrypt
- 6.3.84. pgp_autosign
- 6.3.85. pgp_default_version
- 6.3.86. pgp_encryptself
- 6.3.87. pgp_gpg
- 6.3.88. pgp_key_version
- 6.3.89. pgp_long_ids
- 6.3.90. pgp_receive_version
- 6.3.91. pgp_replyencrypt
- 6.3.92. pgp_replysign
- 6.3.93. pgp_send_version
- 6.3.94. pgp_sign_as
- 6.3.95. pgp_sign_micalg
- 6.3.96. pgp_strict_enc
- 6.3.97. pgp_timeout
- 6.3.98. pgp_v2
- 6.3.99. pgp_v2_language
- 6.3.100. pgp_v2_pubring
- 6.3.101. pgp_v2_secring
- 6.3.102. pgp_v5
- 6.3.103. pgp_v5_language
- 6.3.104. pgp_v5_pubring
- 6.3.105. pgp_v5_secring
- 6.3.106. pipe_decode
- 6.3.107. pipe_sep
- 6.3.108. pipe_split
- 6.3.109. pop_delete
- 6.3.110. pop_host
- 6.3.111. pop_last
- 6.3.112. pop_pass
- 6.3.113. pop_port
- 6.3.114. pop_user
- 6.3.115. post_indent_string
- 6.3.116. postpone
- 6.3.117. postponed
- 6.3.118. print
- 6.3.119. print_command
- 6.3.120. prompt_after
- 6.3.121. query_command
- 6.3.122. quit
- 6.3.123. quote_regexp
- 6.3.124. read_inc
- 6.3.125. read_only
- 6.3.126. realname
- 6.3.127. recall
- 6.3.128. record
- 6.3.129. reply_regexp
- 6.3.130. reply_self
- 6.3.131. reply_to
- 6.3.132. resolve
- 6.3.133. reverse_alias
- 6.3.134. reverse_name
- 6.3.135. save_address
- 6.3.136. save_empty
- 6.3.137. save_name
- 6.3.138. sendmail
- 6.3.139. sendmail_wait
- 6.3.140. shell
- 6.3.141. sig_dashes
- 6.3.142. signature
- 6.3.143. simple_search
- 6.3.144. smart_wrap
- 6.3.145. smileys
- 6.3.146. sort
- 6.3.147. sort_alias
- 6.3.148. sort_aux
- 6.3.149. sort_browser
- 6.3.150. spoolfile
- 6.3.151. sort_re
- 6.3.152. status_chars
- 6.3.153. status_format
- 6.3.154. status_on_top
- 6.3.155. strict_threads
- 6.3.156. suspend
- 6.3.157. thorough_search
- 6.3.158. tilde
- 6.3.159. timeout
- 6.3.160. tmpdir
- 6.3.161. to_chars
- 6.3.162. uncollapse_jump
- 6.3.163. use_8bitmime
- 6.3.164. use_domain
- 6.3.165. use_from
- 6.3.166. pgp_verify_sig
- 6.3.167. visual
- 6.3.168. wait_key
- 6.3.169. wrap_search
- 6.3.170. write_inc
- 6.3.171. write_bcc
- 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. postpone
- 6.4.9. browser
- 6.4.10. pgp
- 6.4.11. editor
- 7. Miscellany
- 7.1. Acknowledgements
- 7.2. About this document