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Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based MIME mail client. Mutt is highly configurable, and is well suited to the mail power user with advanced features like key bindings, keyboard macros, mail threading, regular expression searches and a powerful pattern matching language for selecting groups of messages.
-http://www.mutt.org/ +The official homepage can be found at +http://www.mutt.org/.
To subscribe to one of the following mailing lists, send a message with the
word subscribe in the body to
list-name-request@mutt.org.
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-<mutt-announce-request@mutt.org> -- low traffic list for announcements
+<mutt-announce-request@mutt.org> -- low traffic list for announcements
-<mutt-users-request@mutt.org> -- help, bug reports and feature requests
+<mutt-users-request@mutt.org> -- help, bug reports and feature requests
-<mutt-dev-request@mutt.org> -- development mailing list
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+<mutt-dev-request@mutt.org> -- development mailing list
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+All messages posted to +mutt-announce are automatically forwarded to +mutt-users, so you do not need to be subscribed to +both lists. +
+Mutt releases can be downloaded from +ftp://ftp.mutt.org/mutt/. +For a list of mirror sites, please refer to +http://www.mutt.org/download.html.
-Note: all messages posted to mutt-announce are automatically -forwarded to mutt-users, so you do not need to be subscribed to both -lists. -
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- +For nightly tarballs and version control access, please refer to the +Mutt development site. +
+The official Mutt bug tracking system can be found at +http://bugs.mutt.org/ +
+An (unofficial) wiki can be found +at http://wiki.mutt.org/. +
+For the IRC user community, visit channel #mutt on +irc.freenode.net. +
+For USENET, see the newsgroup comp.mail.mutt. +
+There are various ways to contribute to the Mutt project. +
+Especially for new users it may be helpful to meet other new and +experienced users to chat about Mutt, talk about problems and share +tricks. +
+Since translations of Mutt into other languages are highly appreciated, +the Mutt developers always look for skilled translators that help +improve and continue to maintain stale translations.
-For a list of mirror sites, please refer to http://www.mutt.org/download.html. -
-Visit channel #mutt on -irc.freenode.net to chat with -other people interested in Mutt. -
-See the newsgroup comp.mail.mutt. -
-Mutt is Copyright (C) 1996-2005 Michael R. Elkins
-<me@cs.hmc.edu> and others
+For contributing code patches for new features and bug fixes, please
+refer to the developer pages at
+http://dev.mutt.org/ for more details.
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+This section lists typographical conventions followed throughout this +manual. See table Table 1.1, âTypographical conventions for special termsâ for typographical +conventions for special terms. +
Table 1.1. Typographical conventions for special terms
| Item | Refers to... |
|---|---|
printf(3) | UNIX manual pages, execute man 3 printf |
<PageUp> | named keys |
<create-alias> | named Mutt function |
^G | Control+G key combination |
| $mail_check | Mutt configuration option |
$HOME | environment variable |
+Examples are presented as: +
+mutt -v +
+Within command synopsis, curly brackets (â{}â) denote a set +of options of which one is mandatory, square brackets +(â[]â) denote optional arguments, three dots +denote that the argument may be repeated arbitrary times. +
+Mutt is Copyright © 1996-2009 Michael R. Elkins
+<me@mutt.org> and others.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by