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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. -
-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 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. +
+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.
+
+<mutt-announce-request@mutt.org> â low traffic list for
+announcements
+
+<mutt-users-request@mutt.org> â help, bug reports and
+feature requests
+
+<mutt-dev-request@mutt.org> â development mailing list
- +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. -
- -
- +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.
+
+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 -the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or -(at your option) any later version. +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 the +Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your +option) any later version.
-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. +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.
-You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License -along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software -Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. +You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along +with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., +51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.