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20 .TH mutt 1 "March 2007" Unix "User Manuals"
22 mutt \- The Mutt Mail User Agent
27 [-e \fIcmd\fP] [-F \fIfile\fP] [-m \fItype\fP] [-f \fIfile\fP]
38 [\-a \fIfile\fP [...]]
43 [-n] [-e \fIcmd\fP] [-F \fIfile\fP] -p
46 [-n] [-e \fIcmd\fP] [-F \fIfile\fP] -A \fIalias\fP
49 [-n] [-e \fIcmd\fP] [-F \fIfile\fP] -Q \fIquery\fP
58 Mutt is a small but very powerful text based program for reading and sending electronic
59 mail under unix operating systems, including support for color terminals, MIME,
60 OpenPGP, and a threaded sorting mode.
64 An expanded version of the given alias is passed to stdout.
65 .IP "-a \fIfile\fP [...]"
66 Attach a file to your message using MIME.
67 To attach multiple files, separating filenames and recipient addresses with
68 "\-\-" is mandatory, e.g. \fBmutt \-a img.jpg *.png \-\- addr1 addr2\fP.
69 .IP "-b \fIaddress\fP"
70 Specify a blind-carbon-copy (BCC) recipient
71 .IP "-c \fIaddress\fP"
72 Specify a carbon-copy (CC) recipient
74 If mutt was complied with +DEBUG log debugging output to ~/.muttdebug0.
75 \fILevel\fP can range from 1-5 and effects verbosity. A value of 2 is
78 Print the value of all configuration options to stdout.
79 .IP "-e \fIcommand\fP"
80 Specify a configuration command to be run after processing of initialization
82 .IP "-f \fImailbox\fP"
83 Specify which mailbox to load.
85 Specify an initialization file to read instead of ~/.muttrc
89 Specify a draft file which contains header and body to use to send a
91 .IP "-i \fIinclude\fP"
92 Specify a file to include into the body of a message.
94 specify a default mailbox type
96 Causes Mutt to bypass the system configuration file.
98 Resume a postponed message.
100 Query a configuration variables value. The query is executed after
101 all configuration files have been parsed, and any commands given on
102 the command line have been executed.
104 Open a mailbox in \fIread-only\fP mode.
105 .IP "-s \fIsubject\fP"
106 Specify the subject of the message.
108 Display the Mutt version number and compile-time definitions.
110 Display license and copyright information.
112 Emulate the mailx compose mode.
114 Start Mutt with a listing of all mailboxes specified by the \fImailboxes\fP
117 When used with -f, causes Mutt not to start if there are no messages in the
120 Causes Mutt to open the first mailbox specified by the \fImailboxes\fP
121 command which contains new mail.
123 Treat remaining arguments as \fIaddr\fP even if they start with a dash.
124 See also "\-a" above.
128 Specifies the editor to use if VISUAL is unset.
130 The user's e-mail address.
132 Full path of the user's home directory.
134 Full path of the user's spool mailbox.
136 Full path of the user's spool mailbox. Commonly used when the spool
141 Path to search for mailcap files.
143 If this variable is set, mailcap are always used without prompting first.
145 Directory in which the user's PGP public keyring can be found.
147 Directory in which temporary files are created.
149 Default Reply-To address.
151 Specifies the editor to use when composing messages.
154 .IP "~/.muttrc or ~/.mutt/muttrc"
155 User configuration file.
156 .IP "@sysconfdir@/Muttrc"
157 System-wide configuration file.
158 .IP "/tmp/muttXXXXXX"
159 Temporary files created by Mutt.
161 User definition for handling non-text MIME types.
162 .IP "@sysconfdir@/mailcap"
163 System definition for handling non-text MIME types.
165 User's personal mapping between MIME types and file extensions.
166 .IP "@sysconfdir@/mime.types"
167 System mapping between MIME types and file extensions.
168 .IP "@bindir@/mutt_dotlock"
169 The privileged dotlocking program.
170 .IP "@docdir@/manual.txt"
174 None. Mutts have fleas, not bugs.
177 Suspend/resume while editing a file with an external editor does not work
178 under SunOS 4.x if you use the curses lib in /usr/5lib. It \fIdoes\fP work
179 with the S-Lang library, however.
181 Resizing the screen while using an external pager causes Mutt to go haywire
184 Suspend/resume does not work under Ultrix.
186 The help line for the index menu is not updated if you change the bindings
187 for one of the functions listed while Mutt is running.
189 For a more up-to-date list of bugs, errm, fleas, please visit the
190 mutt project's bug tracking system under http://bugs.mutt.org/.
192 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
193 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
194 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
195 GNU General Public License for more details.
202 .BR mutt_dotlock (1),
208 Mutt Home Page: http://www.mutt.org/
213 Michael Elkins, and others. Use <mutt-dev@mutt.org> to contact