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+ </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>
<span class="bold"><strong>Mutt</strong></span> 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.
</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>
-<a href="http://www.mutt.org/" target="_top">http://www.mutt.org/</a>
+The official homepage can be found at
+<a class="ulink" href="http://www.mutt.org/" target="_top">http://www.mutt.org/</a>.
</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>
To subscribe to one of the following mailing lists, send a message with the
word <span class="emphasis"><em>subscribe</em></span> in the body to
<code class="literal">list-name</code><span class="emphasis"><em>-request</em></span><code class="literal">@mutt.org</code>.
-</p><p>
-
</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>
-<code class="email"><<a href="mailto:mutt-announce-request@mutt.org">mutt-announce-request@mutt.org</a>></code> -- low traffic list for announcements
+<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
</p></li><li><p>
-<code class="email"><<a href="mailto:mutt-users-request@mutt.org">mutt-users-request@mutt.org</a>></code> -- help, bug reports and feature requests
+<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
</p></li><li><p>
-<code class="email"><<a href="mailto:mutt-dev-request@mutt.org">mutt-dev-request@mutt.org</a>></code> -- development mailing list
-</p></li></ul></div><p>
-
+<code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:mutt-dev-request@mutt.org">mutt-dev-request@mutt.org</a>></code> -- development mailing list
+</p></li></ul></div><div class="note"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>
+All messages posted to
+<span class="emphasis"><em>mutt-announce</em></span> are automatically forwarded to
+<span class="emphasis"><em>mutt-users</em></span>, so you do not need to be subscribed to
+both lists.
+</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>
+Mutt releases can be downloaded from
+<a class="ulink" href="ftp://ftp.mutt.org/mutt/" target="_top">ftp://ftp.mutt.org/mutt/</a>.
+For a list of mirror sites, please refer to
+<a class="ulink" href="http://www.mutt.org/download.html" target="_top">http://www.mutt.org/download.html</a>.
</p><p>
-<span class="bold"><strong>Note:</strong></span> all messages posted to <span class="emphasis"><em>mutt-announce</em></span> are automatically
-forwarded to <span class="emphasis"><em>mutt-users</em></span>, so you do not need to be subscribed to both
-lists.
-</p></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. Software Distribution Sites</h2></div></div></div><p>
-
-</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>
-<a href="ftp://ftp.mutt.org/mutt/" target="_top">ftp://ftp.mutt.org/mutt/</a>
-</p></li></ul></div><p>
-
+For nightly tarballs and version control access, please refer to the
+<a class="ulink" href="http://dev.mutt.org/" target="_top">Mutt development site</a>.
+</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>
+The official Mutt bug tracking system can be found at
+<a class="ulink" href="http://bugs.mutt.org/" target="_top">http://bugs.mutt.org/</a>
+</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Wiki</span></dt><dd><p>
+An (unofficial) wiki can be found
+at <a class="ulink" href="http://wiki.mutt.org/" target="_top">http://wiki.mutt.org/</a>.
+</p></dd><dt><span class="term">IRC</span></dt><dd><p>
+For the IRC user community, visit channel <span class="emphasis"><em>#mutt</em></span> on
+<a class="ulink" href="http://www.freenode.net/" target="_top">irc.freenode.net</a>.
+</p></dd><dt><span class="term">USENET</span></dt><dd><p>
+For USENET, see the newsgroup <a class="ulink" href="news:comp.mail.mutt" target="_top">comp.mail.mutt</a>.
+</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>
+There are various ways to contribute to the Mutt project.
+</p><p>
+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.
+</p><p>
+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.
</p><p>
-For a list of mirror sites, please refer to <a href="http://www.mutt.org/download.html" target="_top">http://www.mutt.org/download.html</a>.
-</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. IRC</h2></div></div></div><p>
-Visit channel <span class="emphasis"><em>#mutt</em></span> on
-<a href="http://www.freenode.net/" target="_top">irc.freenode.net</a> to chat with
-other people interested in Mutt.
-</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="usenet"></a>5. USENET</h2></div></div></div><p>
-See the newsgroup <a href="news:comp.mail.mutt" target="_top">comp.mail.mutt</a>.
-</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>6. Copyright</h2></div></div></div><p>
-Mutt is Copyright (C) 1996-2005 Michael R. Elkins
-<code class="email"><<a href="mailto:me@cs.hmc.edu">me@cs.hmc.edu</a>></code> and others
+For contributing code patches for new features and bug fixes, please
+refer to the developer pages at
+<a class="ulink" href="http://dev.mutt.org/" target="_top">http://dev.mutt.org/</a> for more details.
+</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>
+This section lists typographical conventions followed throughout this
+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
+conventions for special terms.
+</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>
+Examples are presented as:
+</p><pre class="screen">
+mutt -v
+</pre><p>
+Within command synopsis, curly brackets (“<span class="quote">{}</span>”) denote a set
+of options of which one is mandatory, square brackets
+(“<span class="quote">[]</span>”) denote optional arguments, three dots
+denote that the argument may be repeated arbitrary times.
+</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>
+Mutt is Copyright © 1996-2009 Michael R. Elkins
+<code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:me@mutt.org">me@mutt.org</a>></code> and others.
</p><p>
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
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