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28 </style></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 1. Introduction</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gettingstarted.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="chapter" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="intro"></a>Chapter 1. Introduction</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="intro.html#homepage">1. Mutt Home Page</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="intro.html#muttlists">2. Mailing Lists</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="intro.html#distribution">3. Getting Mutt</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="intro.html#irc">4. Mutt Online Resources</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="intro.html#contrib">5. Contributing to Mutt</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="intro.html#typo">6. Typograhical Conventions</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="intro.html#copyright">7. Copyright</a></span></dt></dl></div><p>
29 <span class="bold"><strong>Mutt</strong></span> is a small but very powerful text-based MIME mail client. Mutt is
30 highly configurable, and is well suited to the mail power user with advanced
31 features like key bindings, keyboard macros, mail threading, regular
32 expression searches and a powerful pattern matching language for selecting
34 </p><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="homepage"></a>1. Mutt Home Page</h2></div></div></div><p>
35 The official homepage can be found at
36 <a class="ulink" href="http://www.mutt.org/" target="_top">http://www.mutt.org/</a>.
37 </p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="muttlists"></a>2. Mailing Lists</h2></div></div></div><p>
38 To subscribe to one of the following mailing lists, send a message with the
39 word <span class="emphasis"><em>subscribe</em></span> in the body to
40 <code class="literal">list-name</code><span class="emphasis"><em>-request</em></span><code class="literal">@mutt.org</code>.
41 </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>
42 <code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:mutt-announce-request@mutt.org">mutt-announce-request@mutt.org</a>></code> -- low traffic list for announcements
44 <code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:mutt-users-request@mutt.org">mutt-users-request@mutt.org</a>></code> -- help, bug reports and feature requests
46 <code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:mutt-dev-request@mutt.org">mutt-dev-request@mutt.org</a>></code> -- development mailing list
47 </p></li></ul></div><div class="note"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>
48 All messages posted to
49 <span class="emphasis"><em>mutt-announce</em></span> are automatically forwarded to
50 <span class="emphasis"><em>mutt-users</em></span>, so you do not need to be subscribed to
52 </p></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="distribution"></a>3. Getting Mutt</h2></div></div></div><p>
53 Mutt releases can be downloaded from
54 <a class="ulink" href="ftp://ftp.mutt.org/mutt/" target="_top">ftp://ftp.mutt.org/mutt/</a>.
55 For a list of mirror sites, please refer to
56 <a class="ulink" href="http://www.mutt.org/download.html" target="_top">http://www.mutt.org/download.html</a>.
58 For nightly tarballs and version control access, please refer to the
59 <a class="ulink" href="http://dev.mutt.org/" target="_top">Mutt development site</a>.
60 </p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="irc"></a>4. Mutt Online Resources</h2></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">Bug Tracking System</span></dt><dd><p>
61 The official Mutt bug tracking system can be found at
62 <a class="ulink" href="http://bugs.mutt.org/" target="_top">http://bugs.mutt.org/</a>
63 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">Wiki</span></dt><dd><p>
64 An (unofficial) wiki can be found
65 at <a class="ulink" href="http://wiki.mutt.org/" target="_top">http://wiki.mutt.org/</a>.
66 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">IRC</span></dt><dd><p>
67 For the IRC user community, visit channel <span class="emphasis"><em>#mutt</em></span> on
68 <a class="ulink" href="http://www.freenode.net/" target="_top">irc.freenode.net</a>.
69 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">USENET</span></dt><dd><p>
70 For USENET, see the newsgroup <a class="ulink" href="news:comp.mail.mutt" target="_top">comp.mail.mutt</a>.
71 </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="contrib"></a>5. Contributing to Mutt</h2></div></div></div><p>
72 There are various ways to contribute to the Mutt project.
74 Especially for new users it may be helpful to meet other new and
75 experienced users to chat about Mutt, talk about problems and share
78 Since translations of Mutt into other languages are highly appreciated,
79 the Mutt developers always look for skilled translators that help
80 improve and continue to maintain stale translations.
82 For contributing code patches for new features and bug fixes, please
83 refer to the developer pages at
84 <a class="ulink" href="http://dev.mutt.org/" target="_top">http://dev.mutt.org/</a> for more details.
85 </p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="typo"></a>6. Typograhical Conventions</h2></div></div></div><p>
86 This section lists typographical conventions followed throughout this
87 manual. See table <a class="xref" href="intro.html#tab-typo" title="Table 1.1. Typographical conventions for special terms">Table 1.1, “Typographical conventions for special terms”</a> for typographical
88 conventions for special terms.
89 </p><div class="table"><a id="tab-typo"></a><p class="title"><b>Table 1.1. Typographical conventions for special terms</b></p><div class="table-contents"><table summary="Typographical conventions for special terms" border="1"><colgroup><col /><col /></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Item</th><th>Refers to...</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code class="literal">printf(3)</code></td><td>UNIX manual pages, execute <code class="literal">man 3 printf</code></td></tr><tr><td><code class="literal"><PageUp></code></td><td>named keys</td></tr><tr><td><code class="literal"><create-alias></code></td><td>named Mutt function</td></tr><tr><td><code class="literal">^G</code></td><td>Control+G key combination</td></tr><tr><td>$mail_check</td><td>Mutt configuration option</td></tr><tr><td><code class="literal">$HOME</code></td><td>environment variable</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br class="table-break" /><p>
90 Examples are presented as:
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94 Within command synopsis, curly brackets (“<span class="quote">{}</span>”) denote a set
95 of options of which one is mandatory, square brackets
96 (“<span class="quote">[]</span>”) denote optional arguments, three dots
97 denote that the argument may be repeated arbitrary times.
98 </p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="copyright"></a>7. Copyright</h2></div></div></div><p>
99 Mutt is Copyright © 1996-2009 Michael R. Elkins
100 <code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:me@mutt.org">me@mutt.org</a>></code> and others.
102 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
103 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
104 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
105 (at your option) any later version.
107 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
108 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
109 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
110 GNU General Public License for more details.
112 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
113 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
114 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
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