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mutt - The Mutt Mail User Agent
mutt [-nRyzZ]
[-e cmd] [-F file] [-m type] [-f file]
mutt [-nx] [-e cmd] [-F file] [-H file]
[-i file] [-s subj] [-b addr] [-c addr] [-a file [...] --] addr|mailto_url [...]
mutt
[-nx] [-e cmd] [-F file] [-s subj] [-b addr] [-c addr] [-a file [...] --] addr|mailto_url
[...] < message
mutt [-n] [-e cmd] [-F file] -p
mutt [-n] [-e cmd] [-F file] -A alias
mutt [-n] [-e cmd] [-F file] -Q query
mutt -v[v]
mutt -D
Mutt is
a small but very powerful text based program for reading and sending electronic
mail under unix operating systems, including support for color terminals,
MIME, OpenPGP, and a threaded sorting mode.
Note: This manual page gives
a brief overview of mutt’s command line options. You should find a copy of
the full manual in /usr/share/doc/mutt, in text, HTML, and/or PDF format.
- -A alias
- An expanded version of the given alias is passed to stdout.
- -a file [...]
- Attach a file to your message using MIME. When attaching single
or multiple files, separating filenames and recipient addresses with "--"
is mandatory, e.g. mutt -a image.jpg -- addr1 or mutt -a img.jpg *.png -- addr1 addr2.
The -a option must be placed at the end of command line options.
- -b address
- Specify
a blind-carbon-copy (BCC) recipient
- -c address
- Specify a carbon-copy (CC) recipient
- -d level
- If mutt was complied with +DEBUG log debugging output to ~/.muttdebug0.
Level can range from 1-5 and effects verbosity. A value of 2 is recommended.
- -D
- Print the value of all configuration options to stdout.
- -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 message.
- -m type
- specify a default
mailbox type for newly created folders.
- -n
- Causes Mutt to bypass the system
configuration file.
- -p
- Resume a postponed message.
- -Q query
- Query a configuration
variables value. The query is executed after all configuration files have
been parsed, and any commands given on the command line have been executed.
- -R
- Open a mailbox in read-only mode.
- -s subject
- Specify the subject of the message.
- -v
- Display the Mutt version number and compile-time definitions.
- -vv
- Display
license and copyright information.
- -x
- Emulate the mailx compose mode.
- -y
- Start
Mutt with a listing of all mailboxes specified 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.
- --
- Treat remaining arguments as addr even
if they start with a dash. See also "-a" above.
- EDITOR
- Specifies
the editor to use if VISUAL is unset.
- EMAIL
- The user’s e-mail address.
- HOME
- Full
path of the user’s home directory.
- MAIL
- Full path of the user’s spool mailbox.
- MAILDIR
- Full path of the user’s spool mailbox if MAIL is unset. Commonly
used when the spool mailbox is a maildir (5)
folder.
- 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
- Specifies the editor to use when composing
messages.
- ~/.muttrc or ~/.mutt/muttrc
- User configuration file.
- /usr/etc/Muttrc
- System-wide
configuration file.
- /tmp/muttXXXXXX
- Temporary files created by Mutt.
- ~/.mailcap
- User
definition for handling non-text MIME types.
- /usr/etc/mailcap
- System definition
for handling non-text MIME types.
- ~/.mime.types
- User’s personal mapping between
MIME types and file extensions.
- /usr/etc/mime.types
- System mapping between
MIME types and file extensions.
- /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock
- The privileged dotlocking
program.
- /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt
- The Mutt manual.
None. Mutts have
fleas, not bugs.
Suspend/resume while editing a file with an external
editor 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.
For a more up-to-date list of bugs, errm, fleas, please visit the
mutt project’s bug tracking system under http://bugs.mutt.org/.
This
program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
curses(3)
, mailcap(5)
, maildir(5)
, mbox(5)
, mutt_dotlock(1)
, muttrc(5)
,
ncurses(3)
, sendmail(1)
, smail(1)
.
Mutt Home Page: http://www.mutt.org/
The
Mutt manual
Michael Elkins, and others. Use <mutt-dev@mutt.org> to contact
the developers.
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