+</pre></div><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="misc-topics"></a>13. Miscellany</h2></div></div></div><p>
+This section documents various features that fit nowhere else.
+</p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">
+Address normalization
+</span></dt><dd><p>
+Mutt normalizes all e-mail addresses to the simplest form possible. If
+an address contains a realname, the form
+<span class="emphasis"><em>Joe User <joe@example.com></em></span> is used and the
+pure e-mail address without angle brackets otherwise, i.e. just
+<span class="emphasis"><em>joe@example.com</em></span>.
+</p><p>
+This normalization affects all headers Mutt generates including aliases.
+</p></dd><dt><span class="term">
+Initial folder selection
+</span></dt><dd><p>
+The folder Mutt opens at startup is determined as follows: the folder
+specified in the <code class="literal">$MAIL</code> environment variable if
+present. Otherwise, the value of <code class="literal">$MAILDIR</code> is taken
+into account. If that isn't present either, Mutt takes the user's
+mailbox in the mailspool as determined at compile-time (which may also
+reside in the home directory). The
+<a class="link" href="reference.html#spoolfile" title="3.269. spoolfile">$spoolfile</a> setting overrides
+this selection. Highest priority has the mailbox given with the
+<code class="literal">-f</code> command line option.
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