Section 1: mutt



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mutt(1)                    User Manuals                   mutt(1)


NAME

mutt - The Mutt Mail User Agent

SYNOPSIS

mutt [-hnpRvxyzZ] [-a file] [-b address] [-c address] [-e command] [-f mailbox] [-F muttrc] [-H draftfile] [-i include] [-m type] [-s subject]

DESCRIPTION

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.

OPTIONS

-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 mes- sage. -m type specify a default mailbox type -n Causes Mutt to bypass the system configuration file. -p Resume a postponed message. -R Open a mailbox in read-only mode. Unix JULY 1998 1 mutt(1) User Manuals mutt(1) -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 speci- fied 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.

ENVIRONMENT

EDITOR Editor to invoke when composing a message. HOME Full path of the user's home directory. MAIL Full path of the user's spool mailbox. 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 Editor to invoke when the ~v command is given in the builtin editor.

FILES

~/.muttrc User configuration file. /etc/Muttrc System-wide configuration file. /tmp/muttXXXXXX Temporary files created by Mutt. Unix JULY 1998 2 mutt(1) User Manuals mutt(1) ~/.mailcap User definition for handling non-text MIME types. /etc/mailcap System definition for handing 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 exten- sions. ${exec_prefix}/bin/mutt_dotlock The privileged dotlocking program.

BUGS

Suspend/resume while editing a file with an external edi- tor 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. SEE ALSO curses(3), dotlock(1), ncurses(3), sendmail(1), smail(1), mailcap(5) Mutt Home Page: http://www.mutt.org/

AUTHOR

Michael Elkins, and others. Use for contacting the developers. Unix JULY 1998 3