X-Git-Url: https://git.llucax.com/software/mutt-debian.git/blobdiff_plain/14c29200cb58d3c4a0830265f2433849781858d0..76a54b65b4d405cea98a5d5b18d2030b4ed9b556:/doc/manual.txt diff --git a/doc/manual.txt b/doc/manual.txt index 10bc984..1a01e39 100644 --- a/doc/manual.txt +++ b/doc/manual.txt @@ -1,16 +1,16 @@ The Mutt E-Mail Client -MichaelElkins +Michael Elkins -version 1.5.18 (2008-05-17) +version 1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Abstract -``All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.'' -me, circa 1995 +?All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.? -me, circa 1995 -━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents @@ -19,52 +19,55 @@ Table of Contents 1. Mutt Home Page 2. Mailing Lists 3. Software Distribution Sites - 4. IRC - 5. USENET - 6. Copyright + 4. Mutt online resources + 5. Contributing to Mutt + 6. Typograhical conventions + 7. Copyright 2. Getting Started - 1. Moving Around in Menus - 2. Editing Input Fields + 1. Core concepts + 2. Moving Around in Menus + 3. Editing Input Fields - 2.1. Introduction - 2.2. History + 3.1. Introduction + 3.2. History - 3. Reading Mail - The Index and Pager + 4. Reading Mail - The Index and Pager - 3.1. The Message Index - 3.2. The Pager - 3.3. Threaded Mode - 3.4. Miscellaneous Functions + 4.1. The Message Index + 4.2. The Pager + 4.3. Threaded Mode + 4.4. Miscellaneous Functions - 4. Sending Mail + 5. Sending Mail - 4.1. Editing the message header - 4.2. Using Mutt with PGP - 4.3. Sending anonymous messages via mixmaster. - 4.4. Sending format=flowed messages + 5.1. Introduction + 5.2. Editing the message header + 5.3. Sending cryptographically signed/encrypted messages + 5.4. Sending anonymous messages via mixmaster + 5.5. Sending format=flowed messages - 5. Forwarding and Bouncing Mail - 6. Postponing Mail + 6. Forwarding and Bouncing Mail + 7. Postponing Mail 3. Configuration - 1. Syntax of Initialization Files - 2. Address groups - 3. Defining/Using aliases - 4. Changing the default key bindings - 5. Defining aliases for character sets - 6. Setting variables based upon mailbox - 7. Keyboard macros - 8. Using color and mono video attributes - 9. Ignoring (weeding) unwanted message headers - 10. Alternative addresses - 11. Mailing lists - 12. Using Multiple spool mailboxes - 13. Monitoring incoming mail - 14. User defined headers - 15. Defining the order of headers when viewing messages + 1. Location of initialization files + 2. Syntax of Initialization Files + 3. Address groups + 4. Defining/Using aliases + 5. Changing the default key bindings + 6. Defining aliases for character sets + 7. Setting variables based upon mailbox + 8. Keyboard macros + 9. Using color and mono video attributes + 10. Message header display + 11. Alternative addresses + 12. Mailing lists + 13. Using Multiple spool mailboxes + 14. Monitoring incoming mail + 15. User defined headers 16. Specify default save mailbox 17. Specify default Fcc: mailbox when composing 18. Specify default save filename and default Fcc: mailbox at once @@ -106,13 +109,14 @@ Table of Contents 6. Mailbox Formats 7. Mailbox Shortcuts 8. Handling Mailing Lists - 9. Editing threads + 9. Handling multiple folders + 10. Editing threads - 9.1. Linking threads - 9.2. Breaking threads + 10.1. Linking threads + 10.2. Breaking threads - 10. Delivery Status Notification (DSN) Support - 11. Start a WWW Browser on URLs (EXTERNAL) + 11. Delivery Status Notification (DSN) Support + 12. Start a WWW Browser on URLs 5. Mutt's MIME Support @@ -264,234 +268,235 @@ Table of Contents 3.91. imap_pass 3.92. imap_passive 3.93. imap_peek - 3.94. imap_servernoise - 3.95. imap_user - 3.96. implicit_autoview - 3.97. include - 3.98. include_onlyfirst - 3.99. indent_string - 3.100. index_format - 3.101. ispell - 3.102. keep_flagged - 3.103. locale - 3.104. mail_check - 3.105. mailcap_path - 3.106. mailcap_sanitize - 3.107. header_cache - 3.108. maildir_header_cache_verify - 3.109. header_cache_pagesize - 3.110. header_cache_compress - 3.111. maildir_trash - 3.112. mark_old - 3.113. markers - 3.114. mask - 3.115. mbox - 3.116. mbox_type - 3.117. metoo - 3.118. menu_context - 3.119. menu_move_off - 3.120. menu_scroll - 3.121. meta_key - 3.122. mh_purge - 3.123. mh_seq_flagged - 3.124. mh_seq_replied - 3.125. mh_seq_unseen - 3.126. mime_forward - 3.127. mime_forward_decode - 3.128. mime_forward_rest - 3.129. mix_entry_format - 3.130. mixmaster - 3.131. move - 3.132. message_cachedir - 3.133. message_cache_clean - 3.134. message_format - 3.135. narrow_tree - 3.136. net_inc - 3.137. pager - 3.138. pager_context - 3.139. pager_format - 3.140. pager_index_lines - 3.141. pager_stop - 3.142. crypt_autosign - 3.143. crypt_autoencrypt - 3.144. pgp_ignore_subkeys - 3.145. crypt_replyencrypt - 3.146. crypt_replysign - 3.147. crypt_replysignencrypted - 3.148. crypt_timestamp - 3.149. pgp_use_gpg_agent - 3.150. crypt_verify_sig - 3.151. smime_is_default - 3.152. smime_ask_cert_label - 3.153. smime_decrypt_use_default_key - 3.154. pgp_entry_format - 3.155. pgp_good_sign - 3.156. pgp_check_exit - 3.157. pgp_long_ids - 3.158. pgp_retainable_sigs - 3.159. pgp_autoinline - 3.160. pgp_replyinline - 3.161. pgp_show_unusable - 3.162. pgp_sign_as - 3.163. pgp_strict_enc - 3.164. pgp_timeout - 3.165. pgp_sort_keys - 3.166. pgp_mime_auto - 3.167. pgp_auto_decode - 3.168. pgp_decode_command - 3.169. pgp_getkeys_command - 3.170. pgp_verify_command - 3.171. pgp_decrypt_command - 3.172. pgp_clearsign_command - 3.173. pgp_sign_command - 3.174. pgp_encrypt_sign_command - 3.175. pgp_encrypt_only_command - 3.176. pgp_import_command - 3.177. pgp_export_command - 3.178. pgp_verify_key_command - 3.179. pgp_list_secring_command - 3.180. pgp_list_pubring_command - 3.181. forward_decrypt - 3.182. smime_timeout - 3.183. smime_encrypt_with - 3.184. smime_keys - 3.185. smime_ca_location - 3.186. smime_certificates - 3.187. smime_decrypt_command - 3.188. smime_verify_command - 3.189. smime_verify_opaque_command - 3.190. smime_sign_command - 3.191. smime_sign_opaque_command - 3.192. smime_encrypt_command - 3.193. smime_pk7out_command - 3.194. smime_get_cert_command - 3.195. smime_get_signer_cert_command - 3.196. smime_import_cert_command - 3.197. smime_get_cert_email_command - 3.198. smime_default_key - 3.199. ssl_client_cert - 3.200. ssl_force_tls - 3.201. ssl_starttls - 3.202. certificate_file - 3.203. ssl_usesystemcerts - 3.204. entropy_file - 3.205. ssl_use_sslv2 - 3.206. ssl_use_sslv3 - 3.207. ssl_use_tlsv1 - 3.208. ssl_min_dh_prime_bits - 3.209. ssl_ca_certificates_file - 3.210. pipe_split - 3.211. pipe_decode - 3.212. pipe_sep - 3.213. pop_authenticators - 3.214. pop_auth_try_all - 3.215. pop_checkinterval - 3.216. pop_delete - 3.217. pop_host - 3.218. pop_last - 3.219. pop_reconnect - 3.220. pop_user - 3.221. pop_pass - 3.222. post_indent_string - 3.223. postpone - 3.224. postponed - 3.225. preconnect - 3.226. print - 3.227. print_command - 3.228. print_decode - 3.229. print_split - 3.230. prompt_after - 3.231. query_command - 3.232. query_format - 3.233. quit - 3.234. quote_regexp - 3.235. read_inc - 3.236. read_only - 3.237. realname - 3.238. recall - 3.239. record - 3.240. reply_regexp - 3.241. reply_self - 3.242. reply_to - 3.243. resolve - 3.244. reverse_alias - 3.245. reverse_name - 3.246. reverse_realname - 3.247. rfc2047_parameters - 3.248. save_address - 3.249. save_empty - 3.250. save_history - 3.251. save_name - 3.252. score - 3.253. score_threshold_delete - 3.254. score_threshold_flag - 3.255. score_threshold_read - 3.256. send_charset - 3.257. sendmail - 3.258. sendmail_wait - 3.259. shell - 3.260. sig_dashes - 3.261. sig_on_top - 3.262. signature - 3.263. simple_search - 3.264. smart_wrap - 3.265. smileys - 3.266. sleep_time - 3.267. smtp_authenticators - 3.268. smtp_pass - 3.269. smtp_url - 3.270. sort - 3.271. sort_alias - 3.272. sort_aux - 3.273. sort_browser - 3.274. sort_re - 3.275. spam_separator - 3.276. spoolfile - 3.277. status_chars - 3.278. status_format - 3.279. status_on_top - 3.280. strict_threads - 3.281. suspend - 3.282. text_flowed - 3.283. thread_received - 3.284. thorough_search - 3.285. tilde - 3.286. time_inc - 3.287. timeout - 3.288. tmpdir - 3.289. to_chars - 3.290. tunnel - 3.291. use_8bitmime - 3.292. use_domain - 3.293. use_envelope_from - 3.294. use_from - 3.295. use_idn - 3.296. use_ipv6 - 3.297. user_agent - 3.298. visual - 3.299. wait_key - 3.300. weed - 3.301. wrap - 3.302. wrap_search - 3.303. wrapmargin - 3.304. write_inc - 3.305. write_bcc + 3.94. imap_pipeline_depth + 3.95. imap_servernoise + 3.96. imap_user + 3.97. implicit_autoview + 3.98. include + 3.99. include_onlyfirst + 3.100. indent_string + 3.101. index_format + 3.102. ispell + 3.103. keep_flagged + 3.104. locale + 3.105. mail_check + 3.106. mailcap_path + 3.107. mailcap_sanitize + 3.108. header_cache + 3.109. maildir_header_cache_verify + 3.110. header_cache_pagesize + 3.111. header_cache_compress + 3.112. maildir_trash + 3.113. mark_old + 3.114. markers + 3.115. mask + 3.116. mbox + 3.117. mbox_type + 3.118. metoo + 3.119. menu_context + 3.120. menu_move_off + 3.121. menu_scroll + 3.122. meta_key + 3.123. mh_purge + 3.124. mh_seq_flagged + 3.125. mh_seq_replied + 3.126. mh_seq_unseen + 3.127. mime_forward + 3.128. mime_forward_decode + 3.129. mime_forward_rest + 3.130. mix_entry_format + 3.131. mixmaster + 3.132. move + 3.133. message_cachedir + 3.134. message_cache_clean + 3.135. message_format + 3.136. narrow_tree + 3.137. net_inc + 3.138. pager + 3.139. pager_context + 3.140. pager_format + 3.141. pager_index_lines + 3.142. pager_stop + 3.143. crypt_autosign + 3.144. crypt_autoencrypt + 3.145. pgp_ignore_subkeys + 3.146. crypt_replyencrypt + 3.147. crypt_replysign + 3.148. crypt_replysignencrypted + 3.149. crypt_timestamp + 3.150. pgp_use_gpg_agent + 3.151. crypt_verify_sig + 3.152. smime_is_default + 3.153. smime_ask_cert_label + 3.154. smime_decrypt_use_default_key + 3.155. pgp_entry_format + 3.156. pgp_good_sign + 3.157. pgp_check_exit + 3.158. pgp_long_ids + 3.159. pgp_retainable_sigs + 3.160. pgp_autoinline + 3.161. pgp_replyinline + 3.162. pgp_show_unusable + 3.163. pgp_sign_as + 3.164. pgp_strict_enc + 3.165. pgp_timeout + 3.166. pgp_sort_keys + 3.167. pgp_mime_auto + 3.168. pgp_auto_decode + 3.169. pgp_decode_command + 3.170. pgp_getkeys_command + 3.171. pgp_verify_command + 3.172. pgp_decrypt_command + 3.173. pgp_clearsign_command + 3.174. pgp_sign_command + 3.175. pgp_encrypt_sign_command + 3.176. pgp_encrypt_only_command + 3.177. pgp_import_command + 3.178. pgp_export_command + 3.179. pgp_verify_key_command + 3.180. pgp_list_secring_command + 3.181. pgp_list_pubring_command + 3.182. forward_decrypt + 3.183. smime_timeout + 3.184. smime_encrypt_with + 3.185. smime_keys + 3.186. smime_ca_location + 3.187. smime_certificates + 3.188. smime_decrypt_command + 3.189. smime_verify_command + 3.190. smime_verify_opaque_command + 3.191. smime_sign_command + 3.192. smime_sign_opaque_command + 3.193. smime_encrypt_command + 3.194. smime_pk7out_command + 3.195. smime_get_cert_command + 3.196. smime_get_signer_cert_command + 3.197. smime_import_cert_command + 3.198. smime_get_cert_email_command + 3.199. smime_default_key + 3.200. ssl_client_cert + 3.201. ssl_force_tls + 3.202. ssl_starttls + 3.203. certificate_file + 3.204. ssl_usesystemcerts + 3.205. entropy_file + 3.206. ssl_use_sslv2 + 3.207. ssl_use_sslv3 + 3.208. ssl_use_tlsv1 + 3.209. ssl_min_dh_prime_bits + 3.210. ssl_ca_certificates_file + 3.211. pipe_split + 3.212. pipe_decode + 3.213. pipe_sep + 3.214. pop_authenticators + 3.215. pop_auth_try_all + 3.216. pop_checkinterval + 3.217. pop_delete + 3.218. pop_host + 3.219. pop_last + 3.220. pop_reconnect + 3.221. pop_user + 3.222. pop_pass + 3.223. post_indent_string + 3.224. postpone + 3.225. postponed + 3.226. preconnect + 3.227. print + 3.228. print_command + 3.229. print_decode + 3.230. print_split + 3.231. prompt_after + 3.232. query_command + 3.233. query_format + 3.234. quit + 3.235. quote_regexp + 3.236. read_inc + 3.237. read_only + 3.238. realname + 3.239. recall + 3.240. record + 3.241. reply_regexp + 3.242. reply_self + 3.243. reply_to + 3.244. resolve + 3.245. reverse_alias + 3.246. reverse_name + 3.247. reverse_realname + 3.248. rfc2047_parameters + 3.249. save_address + 3.250. save_empty + 3.251. save_history + 3.252. save_name + 3.253. score + 3.254. score_threshold_delete + 3.255. score_threshold_flag + 3.256. score_threshold_read + 3.257. send_charset + 3.258. sendmail + 3.259. sendmail_wait + 3.260. shell + 3.261. sig_dashes + 3.262. sig_on_top + 3.263. signature + 3.264. simple_search + 3.265. smart_wrap + 3.266. smileys + 3.267. sleep_time + 3.268. smtp_authenticators + 3.269. smtp_pass + 3.270. smtp_url + 3.271. sort + 3.272. sort_alias + 3.273. sort_aux + 3.274. sort_browser + 3.275. sort_re + 3.276. spam_separator + 3.277. spoolfile + 3.278. status_chars + 3.279. status_format + 3.280. status_on_top + 3.281. strict_threads + 3.282. suspend + 3.283. text_flowed + 3.284. thread_received + 3.285. thorough_search + 3.286. tilde + 3.287. time_inc + 3.288. timeout + 3.289. tmpdir + 3.290. to_chars + 3.291. tunnel + 3.292. use_8bitmime + 3.293. use_domain + 3.294. use_envelope_from + 3.295. use_from + 3.296. use_idn + 3.297. use_ipv6 + 3.298. user_agent + 3.299. visual + 3.300. wait_key + 3.301. weed + 3.302. wrap + 3.303. wrap_search + 3.304. wrapmargin + 3.305. write_inc + 3.306. write_bcc 4. Functions - 4.1. generic - 4.2. index - 4.3. pager - 4.4. alias - 4.5. query - 4.6. attach - 4.7. compose - 4.8. postpone - 4.9. browser - 4.10. pgp - 4.11. smime - 4.12. mix - 4.13. editor + 4.1. generic menu + 4.2. index menu + 4.3. pager menu + 4.4. alias menu + 4.5. query menu + 4.6. attach menu + 4.7. compose menu + 4.8. postpone menu + 4.9. browser menu + 4.10. pgp menu + 4.11. smime menu + 4.12. mix menu + 4.13. editor menu 9. Miscellany @@ -500,21 +505,26 @@ Table of Contents List of Tables +1.1. Typographical conventions for special terms 2.1. Most common navigation keys 2.2. Most common line editor keys 2.3. Most common message index keys -2.4. Most common pager keys -2.5. ANSI escape sequences -2.6. Color sequences -2.7. Most common thread mode keys -2.8. Most common mail sending keys -2.9. Most common compose menu keys -2.10. PGP key menu flags -2.11. Message forwarding/bouncing keys +2.4. Message status flags +2.5. Message recipient flags +2.6. Most common pager keys +2.7. ANSI escape sequences +2.8. Color sequences +2.9. Most common thread mode keys +2.10. Most common mail sending keys +2.11. Most common compose menu keys +2.12. PGP key menu flags 3.1. Symbolic key names -4.1. Pattern modifiers -4.2. Simple search keywords -4.3. Date units +4.1. POSIX regular expression character classes +4.2. Regular expression repetition operators +4.3. GNU regular expression extensions +4.4. Pattern modifiers +4.5. Simple search keywords +4.6. Date units 8.1. Command line options 8.2. Default generic function bindings 8.3. Default index function bindings @@ -530,6 +540,29 @@ List of Tables 8.13. Default mix function bindings 8.14. Default editor function bindings +List of Examples + +3.1. Multiple configuration commands per line +3.2. Commenting configuration files +3.3. Escaping quotes in congfiguration files +3.4. Using external command's output in configuration files +3.5. Using environment variables in configuration files +3.6. Configuring external alias files +3.7. Setting sort method based on mailbox name +3.8. Header weeding +3.9. Configuring header display order +3.10. Defining custom headers +3.11. Using %-expandos in save-hook +3.12. Embedding push in folder-hook +3.13. Configuring spam detection +3.14. Using user-defined variables for config file readability +3.15. Using user-defined variables for backing up other config option values +3.16. Deferring user-defined variable expansion to runtime +3.17. Using external filters in format strings +4.1. Using boolean operators in patterns +4.2. Combining send-hook and my_hdr +5.1. Attachment counting + Chapter 1. Introduction Table of Contents @@ -537,9 +570,10 @@ Table of Contents 1. Mutt Home Page 2. Mailing Lists 3. Software Distribution Sites -4. IRC -5. USENET -6. Copyright +4. Mutt online resources +5. Contributing to Mutt +6. Typograhical conventions +7. Copyright 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 @@ -548,40 +582,95 @@ and a powerful pattern matching language for selecting groups of messages. 1. Mutt Home Page -http://www.mutt.org/ +The official homepage can be found at http://www.mutt.org/. 2. Mailing Lists 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. - ● -- low traffic list for announcements + * -- low traffic list for announcements + + * -- help, bug reports and feature requests - ● -- help, bug reports and feature requests + * -- development mailing list - ● -- development mailing list +Note -Note: all messages posted to mutt-announce are automatically forwarded to -mutt-users, so you do not need to be subscribed to both lists. +All messages posted to mutt-announce are automatically forwarded to mutt-users, +so you do not need to be subscribed to both lists. 3. Software Distribution Sites - ● ftp://ftp.mutt.org/mutt/ +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. -For a list of mirror sites, please refer to http://www.mutt.org/download.html. +4. Mutt online resources -4. IRC +Bug Tracking System -Visit channel #mutt on irc.freenode.net to chat with other people interested in -Mutt. + The official mutt bug tracking system can be found at http://dev.mutt.org/ + +Wiki + + An (unofficial) wiki can be found at http://wiki.mutt.org/. + +IRC + + For the IRC user community, visit channel #mutt on irc.freenode.net. + +USENET + + For USENET, see the newsgroup comp.mail.mutt. + +5. Contributing to 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 contributing code patches for new features and bug fixes, please refer to +the developer pages at http://dev.mutt.org/ for more details. + +6. Typograhical conventions -5. USENET +This section lists typographical conventions followed throughout this manual. +See table Table 1.1, ?Typographical conventions for special terms? for +typographical conventions for special terms. -See the newsgroup comp.mail.mutt. +Table 1.1. Typographical conventions for special terms -6. Copyright ++------------------------------------------------------+ +| Item | Refers to... | +|--------------+---------------------------------------| +|printf(3) |UNIX manual pages, execute man 3 printf| +|--------------+---------------------------------------| +| |named keys | +|--------------+---------------------------------------| +||named Mutt function | +|--------------+---------------------------------------| +|^G |Control+G key combination | +|--------------+---------------------------------------| +|$mail_check |Mutt configuration option | ++------------------------------------------------------+ -Mutt is Copyright (C) 1996-2005 Michael R. Elkins and others + +Examples are presented as: + +mutt -v + +Within command synopsis, curly brackets (?{}?) denote a set of options of which +one is mandatory, square brackets (?[]?) denote optional arguments, three dots +denote that the argument may be repeated arbitrary times. + +7. Copyright + +Mutt is Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Michael R. Elkins 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 @@ -600,609 +689,647 @@ Chapter 2. Getting Started Table of Contents -1. Moving Around in Menus -2. Editing Input Fields +1. Core concepts +2. Moving Around in Menus +3. Editing Input Fields - 2.1. Introduction - 2.2. History + 3.1. Introduction + 3.2. History -3. Reading Mail - The Index and Pager +4. Reading Mail - The Index and Pager - 3.1. The Message Index - 3.2. The Pager - 3.3. Threaded Mode - 3.4. Miscellaneous Functions + 4.1. The Message Index + 4.2. The Pager + 4.3. Threaded Mode + 4.4. Miscellaneous Functions -4. Sending Mail +5. Sending Mail - 4.1. Editing the message header - 4.2. Using Mutt with PGP - 4.3. Sending anonymous messages via mixmaster. - 4.4. Sending format=flowed messages + 5.1. Introduction + 5.2. Editing the message header + 5.3. Sending cryptographically signed/encrypted messages + 5.4. Sending anonymous messages via mixmaster + 5.5. Sending format=flowed messages -5. Forwarding and Bouncing Mail -6. Postponing Mail +6. Forwarding and Bouncing Mail +7. Postponing Mail This section is intended as a brief overview of how to use Mutt. There are many other features which are described elsewhere in the manual. There is even more -information available in the Mutt FAQ and various web pages. See the Mutt Page -for more details. +information available in the Mutt FAQ and various web pages. See the Mutt +homepage for more details. The keybindings described in this section are the defaults as distributed. Your local system administrator may have altered the defaults for your site. You can -always type ``?'' in any menu to display the current bindings. +always type ??? in any menu to display the current bindings. The first thing you need to do is invoke mutt, simply by typing mutt at the command line. There are various command-line options, see either the mutt man page or the reference. -1. Moving Around in Menus - -Information is presented in menus, very similar to ELM, see Table 2.1, "Most -common navigation keys" for common keys used to navigate menus in Mutt. +1. Core concepts + +Mutt is a text-based application which interacts with users through different +menus which are mostly line-/entry-based or page-based. A line-based menu is +the so-called ?index? menu (listing all messages of the currently opened +folder) or the ?alias? menu (allowing you to select recipients from a list). +Examples for page-based menus are the ?pager? (showing one message at a time) +or the ?help? menu listing all available key bindings. + +The user interface consists of a context sensitive help line at the top, the +menu's contents followed by a context sensitive status line and finally the +command line. The command line is used to display informational and error +messages as well as for prompts and for entering interactive commands. + +Because Mutt allows for customizing almost all key bindings, there are +so-called ?functions? which can be executed manually (using the command line) +or in macros. Macros allow the user to bind a sequence of commands to a single +key or a short key sequence instead of repeating a sequence of actions over and +over. + +Many commands (such as saving or copying a message to another folder) can be +applied to a single message or a set of messages (so-called ?tagged? messages). +To help selecting messages, Mutt provides a rich set of message patterns (such +as recipients, sender, body contents, date sent/received, etc.) which can be +combined into complex expressions using the boolean and and or operations as +well as negating. These patterns can also be used to (for example) search for +messages or to limit the index to show only matching messages. + +Mutt supports a ?hook? concept which allows the user to execute arbitrary +configuration commands and functions in certain situations such as entering a +folder, starting a new message or replying to an existing one. These hooks can +be used to highly customize Mutt's behaviour including managing multiple +identities, customizing the display for a folder or even implementing +auto-archiving based on a per-folder basis and much more. + +2. Moving Around in Menus + +The most important navigation keys common to all menus are shown in Table 2.1, +?Most common navigation keys?. Table 2.1. Most common navigation keys -┌───────────┬──────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────┐ -│ Key │ Function │ Description │ -├───────────┼──────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│j or Down │next-entry │move to the next entry │ -├───────────┼──────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│k or Up │previous-entry│move to the previous entry │ -├───────────┼──────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│z or PageDn│page-down │go to the next page │ -├───────────┼──────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│Z or PageUp│page-up │go to the previous page │ -├───────────┼──────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│= or Home │first-entry │jump to the first entry │ -├───────────┼──────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│* or End │last-entry │jump to the last entry │ -├───────────┼──────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│q │quit │exit the current menu │ -├───────────┼──────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│? │help │list all keybindings for the current menu│ -└───────────┴──────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────┘ - - -2. Editing Input Fields - -2.1. Introduction ++------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| Key | Function | Description | +|-------------+----------------+-----------------------------------------| +|j or | |move to the next entry | +|-------------+----------------+-----------------------------------------| +|k or ||move to the previous entry | +|-------------+----------------+-----------------------------------------| +|z or | |go to the next page | +|-------------+----------------+-----------------------------------------| +|Z or | |go to the previous page | +|-------------+----------------+-----------------------------------------| +|= or | |jump to the first entry | +|-------------+----------------+-----------------------------------------| +|* or | |jump to the last entry | +|-------------+----------------+-----------------------------------------| +|q | |exit the current menu | +|-------------+----------------+-----------------------------------------| +|? | |list all keybindings for the current menu| ++------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + + +3. Editing Input Fields + +3.1. Introduction Mutt has a built-in line editor for inputting text, e.g. email addresses or filenames. The keys used to manipulate text input are very similar to those of -Emacs. See Table 2.2, "Most common line editor keys" for a full reference of +Emacs. See Table 2.2, ?Most common line editor keys? for a full reference of available functions, their default key bindings, and short descriptions. Table 2.2. Most common line editor keys -┌──────────────┬───────────────┬────────────────────────────────────┐ -│ Key │ Function │ Description │ -├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤ -│^A or │bol │move to the start of the line │ -├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤ -│^B or │backward-char │move back one char │ -├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤ -│Esc B │backward-word │move back one word │ -├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤ -│^D or │delete-char │delete the char under the cursor │ -├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤ -│^E or │eol │move to the end of the line │ -├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤ -│^F or │forward-char │move forward one char │ -├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤ -│Esc F │forward-word │move forward one word │ -├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ │complete │complete filename or alias │ -├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤ -│^T │complete-query │complete address with query │ -├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤ -│^K │kill-eol │delete to the end of the line │ -├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ESC d │kill-eow │delete to the end ot the word │ -├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤ -│^W │kill-word │kill the word in front of the cursor│ -├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤ -│^U │kill-line │delete entire line │ -├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤ -│^V │quote-char │quote the next typed key │ -├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ │history-up │recall previous string from history │ -├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ │history-down │recall next string from history │ -├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ │backspace │kill the char in front of the cursor│ -├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤ -│Esc u │upcase-word │convert word to upper case │ -├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤ -│Esc l │downcase-word │convert word to lower case │ -├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤ -│Esc c │capitalize-word│capitalize the word │ -├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤ -│^G │n/a │abort │ -├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ │n/a │finish editing │ -└──────────────┴───────────────┴────────────────────────────────────┘ ++---------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| Key | Function | Description | +|--------------+-----------------+------------------------------------| +|^A or | |move to the start of the line | +|--------------+-----------------+------------------------------------| +|^B or | |move back one char | +|--------------+-----------------+------------------------------------| +|Esc B | |move back one word | +|--------------+-----------------+------------------------------------| +|^D or | |delete the char under the cursor | +|--------------+-----------------+------------------------------------| +|^E or | |move to the end of the line | +|--------------+-----------------+------------------------------------| +|^F or | |move forward one char | +|--------------+-----------------+------------------------------------| +|Esc F | |move forward one word | +|--------------+-----------------+------------------------------------| +| | |complete filename or alias | +|--------------+-----------------+------------------------------------| +|^T | |complete address with query | +|--------------+-----------------+------------------------------------| +|^K | |delete to the end of the line | +|--------------+-----------------+------------------------------------| +|Esc d | |delete to the end of the word | +|--------------+-----------------+------------------------------------| +|^W | |kill the word in front of the cursor| +|--------------+-----------------+------------------------------------| +|^U | |delete entire line | +|--------------+-----------------+------------------------------------| +|^V | |quote the next typed key | +|--------------+-----------------+------------------------------------| +| | |recall previous string from history | +|--------------+-----------------+------------------------------------| +| | |recall next string from history | +|--------------+-----------------+------------------------------------| +| | |kill the char in front of the cursor| +|--------------+-----------------+------------------------------------| +|Esc u | |convert word to upper case | +|--------------+-----------------+------------------------------------| +|Esc l | |convert word to lower case | +|--------------+-----------------+------------------------------------| +|Esc c ||capitalize the word | +|--------------+-----------------+------------------------------------| +|^G |n/a |abort | +|--------------+-----------------+------------------------------------| +| |n/a |finish editing | ++---------------------------------------------------------------------+ You can remap the editor functions using the bind command. For example, to make -the Delete key delete the character in front of the cursor rather than under, -you could use +the key delete the character in front of the cursor rather than under, +you could use: bind editor backspace -2.2. History +3.2. History -The number of items in the built-in editor's history is controlled by the -$history variable. You may cycle through them at an editor prompt by using the -history-up and/or history-down commands. +Mutt maintains a history for the built-in editor. The number of items is +controlled by the $history variable and can be made persistent using an +external file specified using $history_file. You may cycle through them at an +editor prompt by using the and/or commands. Mutt maintains several distinct history lists, one for each of the following categories: - ● muttrc commands + * muttrc commands - ● addresses and aliases + * addresses and aliases - ● shell commands + * shell commands - ● filenames + * filenames - ● patterns + * patterns - ● everything else + * everything else Mutt automatically filters out repeated items from the history. It also mimics -the behavior of some shells by ignoring items starting with a space. - -The latter feature can be useful in macros to not clobber the history's -valuable entries with unwanted entries. +the behavior of some shells by ignoring items starting with a space. The latter +feature can be useful in macros to not clobber the history's valuable entries +with unwanted entries. -3. Reading Mail - The Index and Pager +4. Reading Mail - The Index and Pager Similar to many other mail clients, there are two modes in which mail is read in Mutt. The first is the index of messages in the mailbox, which is called the -``index'' in Mutt. The second mode is the display of the message contents. This -is called the ``pager.'' +?index? in Mutt. The second mode is the display of the message contents. This +is called the ?pager.? The next few sections describe the functions provided in each of these modes. -3.1. The Message Index +4.1. The Message Index Common keys used to navigate through and manage messages in the index are shown -in Table 2.3, "Most common message index keys". +in Table 2.3, ?Most common message index keys?. How messages are presented in +the index menu can be customized using the $index_format variable. Table 2.3. Most common message index keys -┌────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────┐ -│ Key │ Description │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│c │change to a different mailbox │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ESC c │change to a folder in read-only mode │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│C │copy the current message to another mailbox│ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ESC C │decode a message and copy it to a folder │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ESC s │decode a message and save it to a folder │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│D │delete messages matching a pattern │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│d │delete the current message │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│F │mark as important │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│l │show messages matching a pattern │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│N │mark message as new │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│o │change the current sort method │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│O │reverse sort the mailbox │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│q │save changes and exit │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│s │save-message │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│T │tag messages matching a pattern │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│t │toggle the tag on a message │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ESC t │toggle tag on entire message thread │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│U │undelete messages matching a pattern │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│u │undelete-message │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│v │view-attachments │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│x │abort changes and exit │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -││display-message │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ │jump to the next new or unread message │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│@ │show the author's full e-mail address │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│$ │save changes to mailbox │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│/ │search │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ESC / │search-reverse │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│^L │clear and redraw the screen │ -├────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│^T │untag messages matching a pattern │ -└────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────┘ - - -3.1.1. Status Flags ++----------------------------------------------------+ +| Key | Description | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|c |change to a different mailbox | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|Esc c |change to a folder in read-only mode | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|C |copy the current message to another mailbox| +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|Esc C |decode a message and copy it to a folder | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|Esc s |decode a message and save it to a folder | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|D |delete messages matching a pattern | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|d |delete the current message | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|F |mark as important | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|l |show messages matching a pattern | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|N |mark message as new | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|o |change the current sort method | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|O |reverse sort the mailbox | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|q |save changes and exit | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|s |save-message | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|T |tag messages matching a pattern | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|t |toggle the tag on a message | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|Esc t |toggle tag on entire message thread | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|U |undelete messages matching a pattern | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|u |undelete-message | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|v |view-attachments | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|x |abort changes and exit | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +||display-message | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +| |jump to the next new or unread message | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|@ |show the author's full e-mail address | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|$ |save changes to mailbox | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|/ |search | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|Esc / |search-reverse | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|^L |clear and redraw the screen | +|--------+-------------------------------------------| +|^T |untag messages matching a pattern | ++----------------------------------------------------+ + In addition to who sent the message and the subject, a short summary of the disposition of each message is printed beside the message number. Zero or more -of the following ``flags'' may appear, which mean: - -D - - message is deleted (is marked for deletion) - -d - - message have attachments marked for deletion - -K - - contains a PGP public key - -N - - message is new - -O - - message is old - -P - - message is PGP encrypted - -r - - message has been replied to - -S - - message is signed, and the signature is successfully verified - -s - - message is signed - -! - - message is flagged - -* - - message is tagged - -Some of the status flags can be turned on or off using - - ● set-flag (default: w) - - ● clear-flag (default: W) - -Furthermore, the following flags reflect who the message is addressed to. They -can be customized with the $to_chars variable. - -+ - - message is to you and you only - -T - - message is to you, but also to or cc'ed to others - -C - - message is cc'ed to you - -F - - message is from you - -L - - message is sent to a subscribed mailing list - -3.2. The Pager - -By default, Mutt uses its builtin pager to display the body of messages. The -pager is very similar to the Unix program less though not nearly as featureful. - -Table 2.4. Most common pager keys - -┌────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ -│ Key │ Description │ -├────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -││go down one line │ -├────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ │display the next page (or next message if at the end of a message)│ -├────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│- │go back to the previous page │ -├────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│n │search for next match │ -├────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│S │skip beyond quoted text │ -├────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│T │toggle display of quoted text │ -├────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│? │show keybindings │ -├────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│/ │search for a regular expression (pattern) │ -├────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ESC / │search backwards for a regular expression │ -├────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│\ │toggle search pattern coloring │ -├────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│^ │jump to the top of the message │ -└────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ - - -In addition to key bindings in Table 2.4, "Most common pager keys", many of the -functions from the index are available in the pager, such as delete-message or -copy-message (this is one advantage over using an external pager to view -messages). +of the ?flags? in Table 2.4, ?Message status flags? may appear, some of which +can be turned on or off using these functions: and +bound by default to ?w? and ?W? respectively. + +Furthermore, the flags in Table 2.5, ?Message recipient flags? reflect who the +message is addressed to. They can be customized with the $to_chars variable. + +Table 2.4. Message status flags + ++------------------------------------------------------------------+ +|Flag| Description | +|----+-------------------------------------------------------------| +|D |message is deleted (is marked for deletion) | +|----+-------------------------------------------------------------| +|d |message has attachments marked for deletion | +|----+-------------------------------------------------------------| +|K |contains a PGP public key | +|----+-------------------------------------------------------------| +|N |message is new | +|----+-------------------------------------------------------------| +|O |message is old | +|----+-------------------------------------------------------------| +|P |message is PGP encrypted | +|----+-------------------------------------------------------------| +|r |message has been replied to | +|----+-------------------------------------------------------------| +|S |message is signed, and the signature is successfully verified| +|----+-------------------------------------------------------------| +|s |message is signed | +|----+-------------------------------------------------------------| +|! |message is flagged | +|----+-------------------------------------------------------------| +|* |message is tagged | ++------------------------------------------------------------------+ + + +Table 2.5. Message recipient flags + ++------------------------------------------------------+ +|Flag| Description | +|----+-------------------------------------------------| +|+ |message is to you and you only | +|----+-------------------------------------------------| +|T |message is to you, but also to or cc'ed to others| +|----+-------------------------------------------------| +|C |message is cc'ed to you | +|----+-------------------------------------------------| +|F |message is from you | +|----+-------------------------------------------------| +|L |message is sent to a subscribed mailing list | ++------------------------------------------------------+ + + +4.2. The Pager + +By default, Mutt uses its builtin pager to display the contents of messages. +The pager is very similar to the Unix program less though not nearly as +featureful. + +Table 2.6. Most common pager keys + ++---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| Key | Description | +|--------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +||go down one line | +|--------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +| |display the next page (or next message if at the end of a message)| +|--------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|- |go back to the previous page | +|--------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|n |search for next match | +|--------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|S |skip beyond quoted text | +|--------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|T |toggle display of quoted text | +|--------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|? |show keybindings | +|--------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|/ |regular expression search | +|--------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|Esc / |backward regular expression search | +|--------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|\ |toggle highlighting of search matches | +|--------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|^ |jump to the top of the message | ++---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + + +In addition to key bindings in Table 2.6, ?Most common pager keys?, many of the +functions from the index menu are also available in the pager, such as + or (this is one advantage over using an +external pager to view messages). Also, the internal pager supports a couple other advanced features. For one, it -will accept and translate the ``standard'' nroff sequences for bold and +will accept and translate the ?standard? nroff sequences for bold and underline. These sequences are a series of either the letter, backspace (^H), -the letter again for bold or the letter, backspace, ``_'' for denoting -underline. Mutt will attempt to display these in bold and underline -respectively if your terminal supports them. If not, you can use the bold and -underline color objects to specify a color or mono attribute for them. +the letter again for bold or the letter, backspace, ?_? for denoting underline. +Mutt will attempt to display these in bold and underline respectively if your +terminal supports them. If not, you can use the bold and underline color +objects to specify a color or mono attribute for them. Additionally, the internal pager supports the ANSI escape sequences for character attributes. Mutt translates them into the correct color and character -settings. The sequences Mutt supports are '\e[Ps;Ps;..Ps;m' where Ps can be one -of the codes shown in Table 2.5, "ANSI escape sequences". - -Table 2.5. ANSI escape sequences - -┌───────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ -│Escape code│ Description │ -├───────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│0 │All Attributes Off │ -├───────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│1 │Bold on │ -├───────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│4 │Underline on │ -├───────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│5 │Blink on │ -├───────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│7 │Reverse video on │ -├───────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│3 │Foreground color is (see Table 2.6, "Color sequences")│ -├───────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│4 │Background color is (see Table 2.6, "Color sequences")│ -└───────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ - - -Table 2.6. Color sequences - -┌───────────┬───────┐ -│Color code │ Color │ -├───────────┼───────┤ -│0 │Black │ -├───────────┼───────┤ -│1 │Red │ -├───────────┼───────┤ -│2 │Green │ -├───────────┼───────┤ -│3 │Yellow │ -├───────────┼───────┤ -│4 │Blue │ -├───────────┼───────┤ -│5 │Magenta│ -├───────────┼───────┤ -│6 │Cyan │ -├───────────┼───────┤ -│7 │White │ -└───────────┴───────┘ +settings. The sequences Mutt supports are: + +\e[Ps;Ps;..Ps;m + +where Ps can be one of the codes shown in Table 2.7, ?ANSI escape sequences?. + +Table 2.7. ANSI escape sequences + ++--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +|Escape code| Description | +|-----------+--------------------------------------------------------------| +|0 |All attributes off | +|-----------+--------------------------------------------------------------| +|1 |Bold on | +|-----------+--------------------------------------------------------------| +|4 |Underline on | +|-----------+--------------------------------------------------------------| +|5 |Blink on | +|-----------+--------------------------------------------------------------| +|7 |Reverse video on | +|-----------+--------------------------------------------------------------| +|3 |Foreground color is (see Table 2.8, ?Color sequences?)| +|-----------+--------------------------------------------------------------| +|4 |Background color is (see Table 2.8, ?Color sequences?)| ++--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + + +Table 2.8. Color sequences + ++-------------------+ +|Color code | Color | +|-----------+-------| +|0 |Black | +|-----------+-------| +|1 |Red | +|-----------+-------| +|2 |Green | +|-----------+-------| +|3 |Yellow | +|-----------+-------| +|4 |Blue | +|-----------+-------| +|5 |Magenta| +|-----------+-------| +|6 |Cyan | +|-----------+-------| +|7 |White | ++-------------------+ Mutt uses these attributes for handling text/enriched messages, and they can -also be used by an external autoview script for highlighting purposes. Note: If -you change the colors for your display, for example by changing the color +also be used by an external autoview script for highlighting purposes. + +Note + +If you change the colors for your display, for example by changing the color associated with color2 for your xterm, then that color will be used instead of green. -3.3. Threaded Mode +Note + +Note that the search commands in the pager take regular expressions, which are +not quite the same as the more complex patterns used by the search command in +the index. This is because the pager only performs simple text search, whereas +the index provides boolean filtering on several aspects of messages. + +4.3. Threaded Mode When the mailbox is sorted by threads, there are a few additional functions -available in the index and pager modes as shown in Table 2.7, "Most common -thread mode keys". - -Table 2.7. Most common thread mode keys - -┌─────┬──────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────┐ -│ Key │ Function │ Description │ -├─────┼──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│^D │delete-thread │delete all messages in the current thread │ -├─────┼──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│^U │undelete-thread │undelete all messages in the current thread │ -├─────┼──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│^N │next-thread │jump to the start of the next thread │ -├─────┼──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│^P │previous-thread │jump to the start of the previous thread │ -├─────┼──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│^R │read-thread │mark the current thread as read │ -├─────┼──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ESC d│delete-subthread │delete all messages in the current subthread │ -├─────┼──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ESC u│undelete-subthread│undelete all messages in the current subthread│ -├─────┼──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ESC n│next-subthread │jump to the start of the next subthread │ -├─────┼──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ESC p│previous-subthread│jump to the start of the previous subthread │ -├─────┼──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ESC r│read-subthread │mark the current subthread as read │ -├─────┼──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ESC t│tag-thread │toggle the tag on the current thread │ -├─────┼──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ESC v│collapse-thread │toggle collapse for the current thread │ -├─────┼──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ESC V│collapse-all │toggle collapse for all threads │ -├─────┼──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│P │parent-message │jump to parent message in thread │ -└─────┴──────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────┘ - - -Note: Collapsing a thread displays only the first message in the thread and -hides the others. This is useful when threads contain so many messages that you -can only see a handful of threads on the screen. See %M in $index_format. For -example, you could use "%?M?(#%03M)&(%4l)?" in $index_format to optionally -display the number of hidden messages if the thread is collapsed. +available in the index and pager modes as shown in Table 2.9, ?Most common +thread mode keys?. + +Table 2.9. Most common thread mode keys + ++-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| Key | Function | Description | +|-----+--------------------+----------------------------------------------| +|^D | |delete all messages in the current thread | +|-----+--------------------+----------------------------------------------| +|^U | |undelete all messages in the current thread | +|-----+--------------------+----------------------------------------------| +|^N | |jump to the start of the next thread | +|-----+--------------------+----------------------------------------------| +|^P | |jump to the start of the previous thread | +|-----+--------------------+----------------------------------------------| +|^R | |mark the current thread as read | +|-----+--------------------+----------------------------------------------| +|Esc d| |delete all messages in the current subthread | +|-----+--------------------+----------------------------------------------| +|Esc u||undelete all messages in the current subthread| +|-----+--------------------+----------------------------------------------| +|Esc n| |jump to the start of the next subthread | +|-----+--------------------+----------------------------------------------| +|Esc p||jump to the start of the previous subthread | +|-----+--------------------+----------------------------------------------| +|Esc r| |mark the current subthread as read | +|-----+--------------------+----------------------------------------------| +|Esc t| |toggle the tag on the current thread | +|-----+--------------------+----------------------------------------------| +|Esc v| |toggle collapse for the current thread | +|-----+--------------------+----------------------------------------------| +|Esc V| |toggle collapse for all threads | +|-----+--------------------+----------------------------------------------| +|P | |jump to parent message in thread | ++-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + + +Note + +Collapsing a thread displays only the first message in the thread and hides the +others. This is useful when threads contain so many messages that you can only +see a handful of threads on the screen. See %M in $index_format. For example, +you could use "%?M?(#%03M)&(%4l)?" in $index_format to optionally display the +number of hidden messages if the thread is collapsed. See also: $strict_threads. -3.4. Miscellaneous Functions +4.4. Miscellaneous Functions + +In addition, the index and pager menus have these interesting functions: -create-alias (default: a) + (default: a) -Creates a new alias based upon the current message (or prompts for a new one). -Once editing is complete, an alias command is added to the file specified by -the $alias_file variable for future use. Note: Specifying an $alias_file does -not add the aliases specified there-in, you must also source the file. + Creates a new alias based upon the current message (or prompts for a new + one). Once editing is complete, an alias command is added to the file + specified by the $alias_file variable for future use -check-traditional-pgp (default: ESC P) + Note -This function will search the current message for content signed or encrypted -with PGP the "traditional" way, that is, without proper MIME tagging. -Technically, this function will temporarily change the MIME content types of -the body parts containing PGP data; this is similar to the edit-type function's -effect. + Mutt does not read the $alias_file upon startup so you must explicitly + source the file. -display-toggle-weed (default: h) + (default: Esc P) -Toggles the weeding of message header fields specified by ignore commands. + This function will search the current message for content signed or + encrypted with PGP the ?traditional? way, that is, without proper MIME + tagging. Technically, this function will temporarily change the MIME + content types of the body parts containing PGP data; this is similar to the + function's effect. -edit (default: e) + (default: e) -This command (available in the ``index'' and ``pager'') allows you to edit the -raw current message as it's present in the mail folder. After you have finished -editing, the changed message will be appended to the current folder, and the -original message will be marked for deletion. + This command (available in the index and pager) allows you to edit the raw + current message as it's present in the mail folder. After you have finished + editing, the changed message will be appended to the current folder, and + the original message will be marked for deletion; if the message is + unchanged it won't be replaced. -edit-type (default: ^E on the attachment menu, and in the pager and index -menus; ^T on the compose menu) + (default: ^E on the attachment menu, and in the pager and index + menus; ^T on the compose menu) -This command is used to temporarily edit an attachment's content type to fix, -for instance, bogus character set parameters. When invoked from the index or -from the pager, you'll have the opportunity to edit the top-level attachment's -content type. On the attachment menu, you can change any attachment's content -type. These changes are not persistent, and get lost upon changing folders. + This command is used to temporarily edit an attachment's content type to + fix, for instance, bogus character set parameters. When invoked from the + index or from the pager, you'll have the opportunity to edit the top-level + attachment's content type. On the attachment menu, you can change any + attachment's content type. These changes are not persistent, and get lost + upon changing folders. -Note that this command is also available on the compose menu. There, it's used -to fine-tune the properties of attachments you are going to send. + Note that this command is also available on the compose menu. There, it's + used to fine-tune the properties of attachments you are going to send. -enter-command (default: ``:'') + (default: ?:?) -This command is used to execute any command you would normally put in a -configuration file. A common use is to check the settings of variables, or in -conjunction with macros to change settings on the fly. + This command is used to execute any command you would normally put in a + configuration file. A common use is to check the settings of variables, or + in conjunction with macros to change settings on the fly. -extract-keys (default: ^K) + (default: ^K) -This command extracts PGP public keys from the current or tagged message(s) and -adds them to your PGP public key ring. + This command extracts PGP public keys from the current or tagged message(s) + and adds them to your PGP public key ring. -forget-passphrase (default: ^F) + (default: ^F) -This command wipes the passphrase(s) from memory. It is useful, if you -misspelled the passphrase. + This command wipes the passphrase(s) from memory. It is useful, if you + misspelled the passphrase. -list-reply (default: L) + (default: L) -Reply to the current or tagged message(s) by extracting any addresses which -match the regular expressions given by the lists or subscribe commands, but -also honor any Mail-Followup-To header(s) if the $honor_followup_to -configuration variable is set. Using this when replying to messages posted to -mailing lists helps avoid duplicate copies being sent to the author of the -message you are replying to. + Reply to the current or tagged message(s) by extracting any addresses which + match the regular expressions given by the lists or subscribe commands, but + also honor any Mail-Followup-To header(s) if the $honor_followup_to + configuration variable is set. Using this when replying to messages posted + to mailing lists helps avoid duplicate copies being sent to the author of + the message you are replying to. -pipe-message (default: |) + (default: |) -Asks for an external Unix command and pipes the current or tagged message(s) to -it. The variables $pipe_decode, $pipe_split, $pipe_sep and $wait_key control -the exact behavior of this function. + Asks for an external Unix command and pipes the current or tagged message + (s) to it. The variables $pipe_decode, $pipe_split, $pipe_sep and $wait_key + control the exact behavior of this function. -resend-message (default: ESC e) + (default: Esc e) -With resend-message, mutt takes the current message as a template for a new -message. This function is best described as "recall from arbitrary folders". It -can conveniently be used to forward MIME messages while preserving the original -mail structure. Note that the amount of headers included here depends on the -value of the $weed variable. + Mutt takes the current message as a template for a new message. This + function is best described as "recall from arbitrary folders". It can + conveniently be used to forward MIME messages while preserving the original + mail structure. Note that the amount of headers included here depends on + the value of the $weed variable. -This function is also available from the attachment menu. You can use this to -easily resend a message which was included with a bounce message as a message/ -rfc822 body part. + This function is also available from the attachment menu. You can use this + to easily resend a message which was included with a bounce message as a + message/rfc822 body part. -shell-escape (default: !) + (default: !) -Asks for an external Unix command and executes it. The $wait_key can be used to -control whether Mutt will wait for a key to be pressed when the command returns -(presumably to let the user read the output of the command), based on the -return status of the named command. + Asks for an external Unix command and executes it. The $wait_key can be + used to control whether Mutt will wait for a key to be pressed when the + command returns (presumably to let the user read the output of the + command), based on the return status of the named command. If no command is + given, an interactive shell is executed. -toggle-quoted (default: T) + (default: T) -The pager uses the $quote_regexp variable to detect quoted text when displaying -the body of the message. This function toggles the display of the quoted -material in the message. It is particularly useful when are interested in just -the response and there is a large amount of quoted text in the way. + The pager uses the $quote_regexp variable to detect quoted text when + displaying the body of the message. This function toggles the display of + the quoted material in the message. It is particularly useful when being + interested in just the response and there is a large amount of quoted text + in the way. -skip-quoted (default: S) + (default: S) -This function will go to the next line of non-quoted text which come after a -line of quoted text in the internal pager. + This function will go to the next line of non-quoted text which comes after + a line of quoted text in the internal pager. -4. Sending Mail +5. Sending Mail -The bindings shown in Table 2.8, "Most common mail sending keys" are available -in the index for sending messages. +5.1. Introduction -Table 2.8. Most common mail sending keys +The bindings shown in Table 2.10, ?Most common mail sending keys? are available +in the index and pager to start a new message. -┌─────┬───────────┬────────────────────────────────┐ -│ Key │ Function │ Description │ -├─────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────┤ -│m │compose │compose a new message │ -├─────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────┤ -│r │reply │reply to sender │ -├─────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────┤ -│g │group-reply│reply to all recipients │ -├─────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────┤ -│L │list-reply │reply to mailing list address │ -├─────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────┤ -│f │forward │forward message │ -├─────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────┤ -│b │bounce │bounce (remail) message │ -├─────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────┤ -│ESC k│mail-key │mail a PGP public key to someone│ -└─────┴───────────┴────────────────────────────────┘ +Table 2.10. Most common mail sending keys ++----------------------------------------------------+ +| Key | Function | Description | +|-----+-------------+--------------------------------| +|m | |compose a new message | +|-----+-------------+--------------------------------| +|r | |reply to sender | +|-----+-------------+--------------------------------| +|g ||reply to all recipients | +|-----+-------------+--------------------------------| +|L | |reply to mailing list address | +|-----+-------------+--------------------------------| +|f | |forward message | +|-----+-------------+--------------------------------| +|b | |bounce (remail) message | +|-----+-------------+--------------------------------| +|Esc k| |mail a PGP public key to someone| ++----------------------------------------------------+ -Bouncing a message sends the message as is to the recipient you specify. + +Bouncing a message sends the message as-is to the recipient you specify. Forwarding a message allows you to add comments or modify the message you are -forwarding. These items are discussed in greater detail in the next chapter `` -Forwarding and Bouncing Mail.'' +forwarding. These items are discussed in greater detail in the next chapter ? +Forwarding and Bouncing Mail.? Mutt will then enter the compose menu and prompt you for the recipients to -place on the ``To:'' header field. Next, it will ask you for the ``Subject:'' -field for the message, providing a default if you are replying to or forwarding -a message. See also $askcc, $askbcc, $autoedit, $bounce, $fast_reply, and +place on the ?To:? header field. Next, it will ask you for the ?Subject:? field +for the message, providing a default if you are replying to or forwarding a +message. See also $askcc, $askbcc, $autoedit, $bounce, $fast_reply, and $include for changing how Mutt asks these questions. Mutt will then automatically start your $editor on the message body. If the @@ -1214,96 +1341,108 @@ is unset, a copy of the forwarded message will be included. If you have specified a $signature, it will be appended to the message. Once you have finished editing the body of your mail message, you are returned -to the compose menu providing the functions show in Table 2.9, "Most common -compose menu keys". - -Table 2.9. Most common compose menu keys - -┌─────┬─────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────┐ -│ Key │ Function │ Description │ -├─────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│a │attach-file │attach a file │ -├─────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│A │attach-message │attach message(s) to the message │ -├─────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ESC k│attach-key │attach a PGP public key │ -├─────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│d │edit-description │edit description on attachment │ -├─────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│D │detach-file │detach a file │ -├─────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│t │edit-to │edit the To field │ -├─────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ESC f│edit-from │edit the From field │ -├─────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│r │edit-reply-to │edit the Reply-To field │ -├─────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│c │edit-cc │edit the Cc field │ -├─────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│b │edit-bcc │edit the Bcc field │ -├─────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│y │send-message │send the message │ -├─────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│s │edit-subject │edit the Subject │ -├─────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│S │smime-menu │select S/MIME options │ -├─────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│f │edit-fcc │specify an ``Fcc'' mailbox │ -├─────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│p │pgp-menu │select PGP options │ -├─────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│P │postpone-message │postpone this message until later │ -├─────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│q │quit │quit (abort) sending the message │ -├─────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│w │write-fcc │write the message to a folder │ -├─────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│i │ispell │check spelling (if available on your system)│ -├─────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│^F │forget-passphrase│wipe passphrase(s) from memory │ -└─────┴─────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────┘ - - -Note: The attach-message function will prompt you for a folder to attach -messages from. You can now tag messages in that folder and they will be -attached to the message you are sending. Note that certain operations like -composing a new mail, replying, forwarding, etc. are not permitted when you are -in that folder. The %r in $status_format will change to a 'A' to indicate that -you are in attach-message mode. - -4.1. Editing the message header - -When editing the header of your outgoing message, there are a couple of special -features available. - -If you specify Fcc:filename Mutt will pick up filename just as if you had used -the edit-fcc function in the compose menu. - -You can also attach files to your message by specifying Attach:filename [ +to the compose menu providing the functions shown in Table 2.11, ?Most common +compose menu keys? to modify, send or postpone the message. + +Table 2.11. Most common compose menu keys + ++----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| Key | Function | Description | +|-----+-------------------+--------------------------------------------| +|a | |attach a file | +|-----+-------------------+--------------------------------------------| +|A | |attach message(s) to the message | +|-----+-------------------+--------------------------------------------| +|Esc k| |attach a PGP public key | +|-----+-------------------+--------------------------------------------| +|d | |edit description on attachment | +|-----+-------------------+--------------------------------------------| +|D | |detach a file | +|-----+-------------------+--------------------------------------------| +|t | |edit the To field | +|-----+-------------------+--------------------------------------------| +|Esc f| |edit the From field | +|-----+-------------------+--------------------------------------------| +|r | |edit the Reply-To field | +|-----+-------------------+--------------------------------------------| +|c | |edit the Cc field | +|-----+-------------------+--------------------------------------------| +|b | |edit the Bcc field | +|-----+-------------------+--------------------------------------------| +|y | |send the message | +|-----+-------------------+--------------------------------------------| +|s | |edit the Subject | +|-----+-------------------+--------------------------------------------| +|S | |select S/MIME options | +|-----+-------------------+--------------------------------------------| +|f | |specify an ?Fcc? mailbox | +|-----+-------------------+--------------------------------------------| +|p | |select PGP options | +|-----+-------------------+--------------------------------------------| +|P | |postpone this message until later | +|-----+-------------------+--------------------------------------------| +|q | |quit (abort) sending the message | +|-----+-------------------+--------------------------------------------| +|w | |write the message to a folder | +|-----+-------------------+--------------------------------------------| +|i | |check spelling (if available on your system)| +|-----+-------------------+--------------------------------------------| +|^F ||wipe passphrase(s) from memory | ++----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + + +The compose menu is also used to edit the attachments for a message which can +be either files or other messages. The function to will prompt +you for a folder to attach messages from. You can now tag messages in that +folder and they will be attached to the message you are sending. + +Note + +Note that certain operations like composing a new mail, replying, forwarding, +etc. are not permitted when you are in that folder. The %r in $status_format +will change to a ?A? to indicate that you are in attach-message mode. + +5.2. Editing the message header + +When editing the header because of $edit_headers being set, there are a several +pseudo headers available which will not be included in sent messages. + +5.2.1. Fcc: pseudo header + +If you specify Fcc: filename as a header, Mutt will pick up filename just as if +you had used the function in the compose menu. + +5.2.2. Attach: pseudo header + +You can also attach files to your message by specifying Attach: filename [ description ] where filename is the file to attach and description is an optional string to use as the description of the attached file. -When replying to messages, if you remove the In-Reply-To: field from the header -field, Mutt will not generate a References: field, which allows you to create a -new message thread. - -Also see $edit_headers. - -4.2. Using Mutt with PGP +5.2.3. Pgp: pseudo header If you want to use PGP, you can specify Pgp: [ E | S | S ] -``E'' encrypts, ``S'' signs and ``S'' signs with the given key, setting -$pgp_sign_as permanently. +?E? selects encryption, ?S? selects signing and ?S? selects signing with +the given key, setting $pgp_sign_as permanently. -If you have told mutt to PGP encrypt a message, it will guide you through a key -selection process when you try to send the message. Mutt will not ask you any -questions about keys which have a certified user ID matching one of the message -recipients' mail addresses. However, there may be situations in which there are -several keys, weakly certified user ID fields, or where no matching keys can be -found. +5.2.4. In-Reply-To: header + +When replying to messages, the In-Reply-To: header contains the Message-Id of +the message(s) you reply to. If you remove its value, Mutt will not generate a +References: field, which allows you to create a new message thread, for example +to create a new message to a mailing list without having to enter the mailing +list's address. + +5.3. Sending cryptographically signed/encrypted messages + +If you have told mutt to PGP or S/MIME encrypt a message, it will guide you +through a key selection process when you try to send the message. Mutt will not +ask you any questions about keys which have a certified user ID matching one of +the message recipients' mail addresses. However, there may be situations in +which there are several keys, weakly certified user ID fields, or where no +matching keys can be found. In these cases, you are dropped into a menu with a list of keys from which you can select one. When you quit this menu, or mutt can't find any matching keys, @@ -1311,50 +1450,50 @@ you are prompted for a user ID. You can, as usually, abort this prompt using ^ G. When you do so, mutt will return to the compose screen. Once you have successfully finished the key selection, the message will be -encrypted using the selected public keys, and sent out. +encrypted using the selected public keys when sent out. Most fields of the entries in the key selection menu (see also $pgp_entry_format) have obvious meanings. But some explanations on the capabilities, flags, and validity fields are in order. -The flags sequence (%f) will expand to one of the flags in Table 2.10, "PGP key -menu flags". +The flags sequence (%f) will expand to one of the flags in Table 2.12, ?PGP key +menu flags?. -Table 2.10. PGP key menu flags +Table 2.12. PGP key menu flags -┌────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ -│Flag│ Description │ -├────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│R │The key has been revoked and can't be used. │ -├────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│X │The key is expired and can't be used. │ -├────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│d │You have marked the key as disabled. │ -├────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│c │There are unknown critical self-signature packets.│ -└────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ++-------------------------------------------------------+ +|Flag| Description | +|----+--------------------------------------------------| +|R |The key has been revoked and can't be used. | +|----+--------------------------------------------------| +|X |The key is expired and can't be used. | +|----+--------------------------------------------------| +|d |You have marked the key as disabled. | +|----+--------------------------------------------------| +|c |There are unknown critical self-signature packets.| ++-------------------------------------------------------+ The capabilities field (%c) expands to a two-character sequence representing a key's capabilities. The first character gives the key's encryption -capabilities: A minus sign (-) means that the key cannot be used for -encryption. A dot (.) means that it's marked as a signature key in one of the -user IDs, but may also be used for encryption. The letter e indicates that this -key can be used for encryption. +capabilities: A minus sign (?-?) means that the key cannot be used for +encryption. A dot (?.?) means that it's marked as a signature key in one of the +user IDs, but may also be used for encryption. The letter ?e? indicates that +this key can be used for encryption. -The second character indicates the key's signing capabilities. Once again, a `` --'' implies ``not for signing'', ``.'' implies that the key is marked as an -encryption key in one of the user-ids, and ``s'' denotes a key which can be -used for signing. +The second character indicates the key's signing capabilities. Once again, a +?-? implies ?not for signing?, ?.? implies that the key is marked as an +encryption key in one of the user-ids, and ?s? denotes a key which can be used +for signing. Finally, the validity field (%t) indicates how well-certified a user-id is. A -question mark (?) indicates undefined validity, a minus character (-) marks an -untrusted association, a space character means a partially trusted association, -and a plus character (+) indicates complete validity. +question mark (???) indicates undefined validity, a minus character (?-?) marks +an untrusted association, a space character means a partially trusted +association, and a plus character (?+?) indicates complete validity. -4.3. Sending anonymous messages via mixmaster. +5.4. Sending anonymous messages via mixmaster -You may also have configured mutt to co-operate with Mixmaster, an anonymous +You may also have compiled mutt to co-operate with Mixmaster, an anonymous remailer. Mixmaster permits you to send your messages anonymously using a chain of remailers. Mixmaster support in mutt is for mixmaster version 2.04 (beta 45 appears to be the latest) and 2.03. It does not support earlier versions or the @@ -1369,61 +1508,63 @@ The chain selection screen is divided into two parts. In the (larger) upper part, you get a list of remailers you may use. In the lower part, you see the currently selected chain of remailers. -You can navigate in the chain using the chain-prev and chain-next functions, -which are by default bound to the left and right arrows and to the h and l keys -(think vi keyboard bindings). To insert a remailer at the current chain -position, use the insert function. To append a remailer behind the current -chain position, use select-entry or append. You can also delete entries from -the chain, using the corresponding function. Finally, to abandon your changes, -leave the menu, or accept them pressing (by default) the Return key. +You can navigate in the chain using the and +functions, which are by default bound to the left and right arrows and to the h +and l keys (think vi keyboard bindings). To insert a remailer at the current +chain position, use the function. To append a remailer behind the +current chain position, use or . You can also delete +entries from the chain, using the corresponding function. Finally, to abandon +your changes, leave the menu, or them pressing (by default) the Return +key. Note that different remailers do have different capabilities, indicated in the %c entry of the remailer menu lines (see $mix_entry_format). Most important is -the ``middleman'' capability, indicated by a capital ``M'': This means that the +the ?middleman? capability, indicated by a capital ?M?: This means that the remailer in question cannot be used as the final element of a chain, but will only forward messages to other mixmaster remailers. For details on the other capabilities, please have a look at the mixmaster documentation. -4.4. Sending format=flowed messages +5.5. Sending format=flowed messages -4.4.1. Concept +5.5.1. Concept format=flowed-style messages (or f=f for short) are text/plain messages that consist of paragraphs which a receiver's mail client may reformat to its own needs which mostly means to customize line lengths regardless of what the -sender sent. Technically this is achieved by letting lines of a ``flowable'' -paragraph end in spaces. +sender sent. Technically this is achieved by letting lines of a ?flowable? +paragraph end in spaces except for the last line. While for text-mode clients like mutt it's the best way to assume only a standard 80x25 character cell terminal, it may be desired to let the receiver decide completely how to view a message. -4.4.2. Mutt support +5.5.2. Mutt support Mutt only supports setting the required format=flowed MIME parameter on -outgoing messages if the $text_flowed variable is set. It does not add the -trailing spaces nor does it provide any other feature related to composing f=f -messages (like reformatting non-f=f parts of a reply to f=f before calling the -editor). +outgoing messages if the $text_flowed variable is set, specifically it does not +add the trailing spaces. After editing the initial message text and before entering the compose menu, mutt properly space-stuffes the message. Space-stuffing is required by RfC3676 defining format=flowed and means to prepend a space to: - ● all lines starting with a space + * all lines starting with a space - ● lines starting with the word ``From'' followed by space + * lines starting with the word ?From? followed by space - ● all lines starting with ``>'' which is not intended to be a quote character + * all lines starting with ?>? which is not intended to be a quote character -All leading spaces are to be removed by receiving clients to restore the -original message. +Note -Note that mutt only support space-stuffing for the first two types of lines but -not for the third: It is impossible to safely detect whether a leading > -character starts a quote or not. +Mutt only supports space-stuffing for the first two types of lines but not for +the third: It is impossible to safely detect whether a leading > character +starts a quote or not. Furthermore, Mutt only applies space-stuffing once after +the initial edit is finished. -4.4.3. Editor considerations +All leading spaces are to be removed by receiving clients to restore the +original message prior to further processing. + +5.5.3. Editor considerations As mutt provides no additional features to compose f=f messages, it's completely up to the user and his editor to produce proper messages. Please @@ -1436,25 +1577,15 @@ properly space-stuffed. For example, vim provides the w flag for its formatoptions setting to assist in creating f=f messages, see :help fo-table for details. -5. Forwarding and Bouncing Mail +6. Forwarding and Bouncing Mail Bouncing and forwarding let you send an existing message to recipients that you -specify. Bouncing a message uses the $sendmail command to send a copy to -alternative addresses as if they were the message's original recipients. -Forwarding a message, on the other hand, allows you to modify the message -before it is resent (for example, by adding your own comments). The default key -bindings are shown in Table 2.11, "Message forwarding/bouncing keys". - -Table 2.11. Message forwarding/bouncing keys - -┌───┬────────┬───────────────────────┐ -│Key│Function│ Description │ -├───┼────────┼───────────────────────┤ -│f │forward │forward message │ -├───┼────────┼───────────────────────┤ -│b │bounce │bounce (remail) message│ -└───┴────────┴───────────────────────┘ - +specify. Bouncing a message sends a verbatim copy of a message to alternative +addresses as if they were the message's original recipients specified in the +Bcc header. Forwarding a message, on the other hand, allows you to modify the +message before it is resent (for example, by adding your own comments). +Bouncing is done using the function and forwarding using the +function bound to ?b? and ?f? respectively. Forwarding can be done by including the original message in the new message's body (surrounded by indicating lines) or including it as a MIME attachment, @@ -1462,7 +1593,7 @@ depending on the value of the $mime_forward variable. Decoding of attachments, like in the pager, can be controlled by the $forward_decode and $mime_forward_decode variables, respectively. The desired forwarding format may depend on the content, therefore $mime_forward is a quadoption which, for -example, can be set to ``ask-no''. +example, can be set to ?ask-no?. The inclusion of headers is controlled by the current setting of the $weed variable, unless $mime_forward is set. @@ -1470,24 +1601,26 @@ variable, unless $mime_forward is set. Editing the message to forward follows the same procedure as sending or replying to a message does. -6. Postponing Mail +7. Postponing Mail At times it is desirable to delay sending a message that you have already begun -to compose. When the postpone-message function is used in the compose menu, the -body of your message and attachments are stored in the mailbox specified by the -$postponed variable. This means that you can recall the message even if you +to compose. When the function is used in the compose menu, +the body of your message and attachments are stored in the mailbox specified by +the $postponed variable. This means that you can recall the message even if you exit Mutt and then restart it at a later time. Once a message is postponed, there are several ways to resume it. From the -command line you can use the ``-p'' option, or if you compose a new message -from the index or pager you will be prompted if postponed messages exist. If +command line you can use the ?-p? option, or if you compose a new message from +the index or pager you will be prompted if postponed messages exist. If multiple messages are currently postponed, the postponed menu will pop up and you can select which message you would like to resume. -Note: If you postpone a reply to a message, the reply setting of the message is -only updated when you actually finish the message and send it. Also, you must -be in the same folder with the message you replied to for the status of the -message to be updated. +Note + +If you postpone a reply to a message, the reply setting of the message is only +updated when you actually finish the message and send it. Also, you must be in +the same folder with the message you replied to for the status of the message +to be updated. See also the $postpone quad-option. @@ -1495,21 +1628,21 @@ Chapter 3. Configuration Table of Contents -1. Syntax of Initialization Files -2. Address groups -3. Defining/Using aliases -4. Changing the default key bindings -5. Defining aliases for character sets -6. Setting variables based upon mailbox -7. Keyboard macros -8. Using color and mono video attributes -9. Ignoring (weeding) unwanted message headers -10. Alternative addresses -11. Mailing lists -12. Using Multiple spool mailboxes -13. Monitoring incoming mail -14. User defined headers -15. Defining the order of headers when viewing messages +1. Location of initialization files +2. Syntax of Initialization Files +3. Address groups +4. Defining/Using aliases +5. Changing the default key bindings +6. Defining aliases for character sets +7. Setting variables based upon mailbox +8. Keyboard macros +9. Using color and mono video attributes +10. Message header display +11. Alternative addresses +12. Mailing lists +13. Using Multiple spool mailboxes +14. Monitoring incoming mail +15. User defined headers 16. Specify default save mailbox 17. Specify default Fcc: mailbox when composing 18. Specify default save filename and default Fcc: mailbox at once @@ -1532,13 +1665,15 @@ Table of Contents 29.1. Basic usage 29.2. Filters -While the default configuration (or ``preferences'') make Mutt usable right out +1. Location of initialization files + +While the default configuration (or ?preferences?) make Mutt usable right out of the box, it is often desirable to tailor Mutt to suit your own tastes. When -Mutt is first invoked, it will attempt to read the ``system'' configuration -file (defaults set by your local system administrator), unless the ``-n'' -command line option is specified. This file is typically /usr/local/share/mutt/ -Muttrc or /etc/Muttrc. Mutt will next look for a file named .muttrc in your -home directory. If this file does not exist and your home directory has a +Mutt is first invoked, it will attempt to read the ?system? configuration file +(defaults set by your local system administrator), unless the ?-n? command line +option is specified. This file is typically /usr/local/share/mutt/Muttrc or / +etc/Muttrc. Mutt will next look for a file named .muttrc in your home +directory. If this file does not exist and your home directory has a subdirectory named .mutt, mutt try to load a file named .mutt/muttrc. .muttrc is the file where you will usually place your commands to configure @@ -1551,60 +1686,79 @@ running version 0.88 of mutt, this file will be sourced instead of the Muttrc file. The same is true of the user configuration file, if you have a file .muttrc-0.88.6 in your home directory, when you run mutt version 0.88.6, it will source this file instead of the default .muttrc file. The version number -is the same which is visible using the ``-v'' command line switch or using the +is the same which is visible using the ?-v? command line switch or using the show-version key (default: V) from the index menu. -1. Syntax of Initialization Files +2. Syntax of Initialization Files An initialization file consists of a series of commands. Each line of the file may contain one or more commands. When multiple commands are used, they must be separated by a semicolon (;). +Example 3.1. Multiple configuration commands per line + set realname='Mutt user' ; ignore x- -The hash mark, or pound sign (``#''), is used as a ``comment'' character. You -can use it to annotate your initialization file. All text after the comment + +The hash mark, or pound sign (?#?), is used as a ?comment? character. You can +use it to annotate your initialization file. All text after the comment character to the end of the line is ignored. For example, +Example 3.2. Commenting configuration files + my_hdr X-Disclaimer: Why are you listening to me? # This is a comment + Single quotes (') and double quotes (") can be used to quote strings which contain spaces or other special characters. The difference between the two types of quotes is similar to that of many popular shell programs, namely that a single quote is used to specify a literal string (one that is not interpreted for shell variables or quoting with a backslash [see next paragraph]), while double quotes indicate a string for which should be evaluated. For example, -backtics are evaluated inside of double quotes, but not for single quotes. +backticks are evaluated inside of double quotes, but not for single quotes. \ quotes the next character, just as in shells such as bash and zsh. For -example, if want to put quotes ``"'' inside of a string, you can use ``\'' to -force the next character to be a literal instead of interpreted character. +example, if want to put quotes ?"? inside of a string, you can use ?\? to force +the next character to be a literal instead of interpreted character. + +Example 3.3. Escaping quotes in congfiguration files set realname="Michael \"MuttDude\" Elkins" -``\\'' means to insert a literal ``\'' into the line. ``\n'' and ``\r'' have -their usual C meanings of linefeed and carriage-return, respectively. + +?\\? means to insert a literal ?\? into the line. ?\n? and ?\r? have their +usual C meanings of linefeed and carriage-return, respectively. A \ at the end of a line can be used to split commands over multiple lines, provided that the split points don't appear in the middle of command names. It is also possible to substitute the output of a Unix command in an -initialization file. This is accomplished by enclosing the command in -backquotes (``). For example, +initialization file. This is accomplished by enclosing the command in backticks +(``). For example, + +Example 3.4. Using external command's output in configuration files my_hdr X-Operating-System: `uname -a` -The output of the Unix command ``uname -a'' will be substituted before the line -is parsed. Note that since initialization files are line oriented, only the -first line of output from the Unix command will be substituted. -Both environment variables and mutt variables can be accessed by prepending -``$'' to the name of the variable. For example, +The output of the Unix command ?uname -a? will be substituted before the line +is parsed. + +Note + +Since initialization files are line oriented, only the first line of output +from the Unix command will be substituted. + +Both environment variables and mutt variables can be accessed by prepending ?$? +to the name of the variable. For example, + +Example 3.5. Using environment variables in configuration files set record=+sent_on_$HOSTNAME -will cause mutt to save outgoing messages to a folder named ``sent_on_kremvax'' -if the environment variable HOSTNAME is set to ``kremvax.'' (See $record for + +will cause mutt to save outgoing messages to a folder named ?sent_on_kremvax? +if the environment variable HOSTNAME is set to ?kremvax.? (See $record for details.) Mutt expands the variable when it is assigned, not when it is used. If the @@ -1614,9 +1768,34 @@ assignment, the variable on the left-hand side will not be affected. The commands understood by mutt are explained in the next paragraphs. For a complete list, see the command reference. -2. Address groups +All configuration files are expected to be in the current locale as specified +by the $charset variable which doesn't have a default value since it's +determined by Mutt at startup. If a configuration file is not encoded in the +same character set the $config_charset variable should be used: all lines +starting with the next are recoded from $config_charset to $charset. + +This mechanism should be avoided if possible as it has the following +implications: + + * These variables should be set early in a configuration file with $charset + preceding $config_charset so Mutt know what character set to convert to. + + * If $config_charset is set, it should be set in each configuration file + because the value is global and not per configuration file. + + * Because Mutt first recodes a line before it attempts to parse it, a + conversion introducing question marks or other characters as part of errors + (unconvertable characters, transliteration) may introduce syntax errors or + silently change the meaning of certain tokens (e.g. inserting question + marks into regular expressions). + +3. Address groups + +Usage: -Usage: group [ -groupname [ ... ] ] [ -rxEXPR [ ... ] ] [ -addrEXPR [ ... ] ] +group [ -group name ...] { -rx expr ... | -addr expr ... } + +ungroup [ -group name ...] { * | -rx expr ... | -addr expr ... } group is used to directly add either addresses or regular expressions to the specified group or groups. The different categories of arguments to the group @@ -1624,36 +1803,37 @@ command can be in any order. The flags -rx and -addr specify what the following strings (that cannot begin with a hyphen) should be interpreted as: either a regular expression or an email address, respectively. -These address groups can also be created implicitely by the alias, lists, +These address groups can also be created implicitly by the alias, lists, subscribe and alternates commands by specifying the optional -group option. Once defined, these address groups can be used in patterns to search for and limit the display to messages matching a group. -Usage: ungroup [ -groupname [ ... ] ] [ * | [ [ -rxEXPR [ ... ] ] [ -addrEXPR [ -... ] ] ] - ungroup is used to remove addresses or regular expressions from the specified group or groups. The syntax is similar to the group command, however the special character * can be used to empty a group of all of its contents. -3. Defining/Using aliases +4. Defining/Using aliases -Usage: alias [ -groupname [ ... ] ] keyaddress [ , address, ... ] +Usage: + +alias [ -group name ...] key address [ address ...] It's usually very cumbersome to remember or type out the address of someone you -are communicating with. Mutt allows you to create ``aliases'' which map a short +are communicating with. Mutt allows you to create ?aliases? which map a short string to a full address. -Note: if you want to create an alias for more than one address, you must -separate the addresses with a comma (``,''). +Note + +If you want to create an alias for more than one address, you must separate the +addresses with a comma (?,?). The optional -group argument to alias causes the aliased address(es) to be added to the named group. -To remove an alias or aliases (``*'' means all aliases): +To remove an alias or aliases (?*? means all aliases): -unalias [ * | key... ] +unalias [ -group name ...] { * | key ... } alias muttdude me@cs.hmc.edu (Michael Elkins) alias theguys manny, moe, jack @@ -1663,18 +1843,21 @@ file. The alias command can appear anywhere in a configuration file, as long as this file is sourced. Consequently, you can have multiple alias files, or you can have all aliases defined in your muttrc. -On the other hand, the create-alias function can use only one file, the one -pointed to by the $alias_file variable (which is ~/.muttrc by default). This +On the other hand, the function can use only one file, the one +pointed to by the $alias_file variable (which is ?/.muttrc by default). This file is not special either, in the sense that Mutt will happily append aliases to any file, but in order for the new aliases to take effect you need to explicitly source this file too. For example: +Example 3.6. Configuring external alias files + source /usr/local/share/Mutt.aliases source ~/.mail_aliases set alias_file=~/.mail_aliases + To use aliases, you merely use the alias at any place in mutt where mutt prompts for addresses, such as the To: or Cc: prompt. You can also enter aliases in your editor at the appropriate headers if you have the $edit_headers @@ -1687,12 +1870,14 @@ the full list of aliases, you must hit tab with out a partial alias, such as at the beginning of the prompt or after a comma denoting multiple addresses. In the alias menu, you can select as many aliases as you want with the -select-entry key (default: RET), and use the exit key (default: q) to return to -the address prompt. +select-entry key (default: ), and use the exit key (default: q) to +return to the address prompt. + +5. Changing the default key bindings -4. Changing the default key bindings +Usage: -Usage: bindmapkeyfunction +bind map key function This command allows you to change the default key bindings (operation invoked when pressing a key). @@ -1743,7 +1928,12 @@ pager pgp - The pgp menu is used to select the OpenPGP keys used for encrypting + The pgp menu is used to select the OpenPGP keys used to encrypt outgoing + messages. + +smime + + The smime menu is used to select the OpenSSL certificates used to encrypt outgoing messages. postpone @@ -1751,78 +1941,90 @@ postpone The postpone menu is similar to the index menu, except is used when recalling a message the user was composing, but saved until later. +query + + The query menu is the browser for results returned by $query_command. + +mix + + The mixmaster screen is used to select remailer options for outgoing + messages (if Mutt is compiled with Mixmaster support). + key is the key (or key sequence) you wish to bind. To specify a control character, use the sequence \Cx, where x is the letter of the control character -(for example, to specify control-A use ``\Ca''). Note that the case of x as -well as \C is ignored, so that \CA, \Ca, \cA and \ca are all equivalent. An +(for example, to specify control-A use ?\Ca?). Note that the case of x as well +as \C is ignored, so that \CA, \Ca, \cA and \ca are all equivalent. An alternative form is to specify the key as a three digit octal number prefixed -with a ``\'' (for example \177 is equivalent to \c?). In addition, key may be a -symbolic name as shown in Table 3.1, "Symbolic key names". +with a ?\? (for example \177 is equivalent to \c?). In addition, key may be a +symbolic name as shown in Table 3.1, ?Symbolic key names?. Table 3.1. Symbolic key names -┌─────────────┬───────────────────┐ -│Symbolic name│ Meaning │ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│\t │tab │ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│ │tab │ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│ │backtab / shift-tab│ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│\r │carriage return │ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│\n │newline │ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│\e │escape │ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│ │escape │ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│ │up arrow │ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│ │down arrow │ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│ │left arrow │ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│ │right arrow │ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│ │Page Up │ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│ │Page Down │ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│ │Backspace │ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│ │Delete │ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│ │Insert │ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│ │Enter │ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│ │Return │ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│ │Home │ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│ │End │ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│ │Space bar │ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│ │function key 1 │ -├─────────────┼───────────────────┤ -│ │function key 10 │ -└─────────────┴───────────────────┘ - - -key does not need to be enclosed in quotes unless it contains a space (`` ''). ++---------------------------------+ +|Symbolic name| Meaning | +|-------------+-------------------| +|\t |tab | +|-------------+-------------------| +| |tab | +|-------------+-------------------| +| |backtab / shift-tab| +|-------------+-------------------| +|\r |carriage return | +|-------------+-------------------| +|\n |newline | +|-------------+-------------------| +|\e |escape | +|-------------+-------------------| +| |escape | +|-------------+-------------------| +| |up arrow | +|-------------+-------------------| +| |down arrow | +|-------------+-------------------| +| |left arrow | +|-------------+-------------------| +| |right arrow | +|-------------+-------------------| +| |Page Up | +|-------------+-------------------| +| |Page Down | +|-------------+-------------------| +| |Backspace | +|-------------+-------------------| +| |Delete | +|-------------+-------------------| +| |Insert | +|-------------+-------------------| +| |Enter | +|-------------+-------------------| +| |Return | +|-------------+-------------------| +| |Home | +|-------------+-------------------| +| |End | +|-------------+-------------------| +| |Space bar | +|-------------+-------------------| +| |function key 1 | +|-------------+-------------------| +| |function key 10 | ++---------------------------------+ + + +key does not need to be enclosed in quotes unless it contains a space (???) or +semi-colon (?;?). function specifies which action to take when key is pressed. For a complete -list of functions, see the reference. The special function noop unbinds the +list of functions, see the reference. The special function unbinds the specified key sequence. -5. Defining aliases for character sets +6. Defining aliases for character sets + +Usage: +charset-hook alias charset -Usage: charset-hook alias charset -Usage: iconv-hook charset local-charset +iconv-hook charset local-charset The charset-hook command defines an alias for a character set. This is useful to properly display messages which are tagged with a character set name not @@ -1832,9 +2034,11 @@ The iconv-hook command defines a system-specific name for a character set. This is helpful when your systems character conversion library insists on using strange, system-specific names for character sets. -6. Setting variables based upon mailbox +7. Setting variables based upon mailbox -Usage: folder-hook [!]regexpcommand +Usage: + +folder-hook [!]regexp command It is often desirable to change settings based on which mailbox you are reading. The folder-hook command provides a method by which you can execute any @@ -1842,40 +2046,54 @@ configuration command. regexp is a regular expression specifying in which mailboxes to execute command before loading. If a mailbox matches multiple folder-hook's, they are executed in the order given in the muttrc. -Note: if you use the ``!'' shortcut for $spoolfile at the beginning of the -pattern, you must place it inside of double or single quotes in order to -distinguish it from the logical not operator for the expression. +Note + +If you use the ?!? shortcut for $spoolfile at the beginning of the pattern, you +must place it inside of double or single quotes in order to distinguish it from +the logical not operator for the expression. -Note that the settings are not restored when you leave the mailbox. For -example, a command action to perform is to change the sorting method based upon -the mailbox being read: +Note + +Settings are not restored when you leave the mailbox. For example, a command +action to perform is to change the sorting method based upon the mailbox being +read: folder-hook mutt set sort=threads However, the sorting method is not restored to its previous value when reading -a different mailbox. To specify a default command, use the pattern ``.'': +a different mailbox. To specify a default command, use the pattern ?.? before +other folder-hooks adjusting a value on a per-folder basis because folder-hooks +are evaluated in the order given in the configuration file. The following +example will set the sort variable to date-sent for all folders but to threads +for all folders containing ?mutt? in their name. + +Example 3.7. Setting sort method based on mailbox name folder-hook . set sort=date-sent +folder-hook mutt set sort=threads + -7. Keyboard macros +8. Keyboard macros -Usage: macromenukeysequence [ description ] +Usage: + +macro menu key sequence [ description ] Macros are useful when you would like a single key to perform a series of actions. When you press key in menu menu, Mutt will behave as if you had typed sequence. So if you have a common sequence of commands you type, you can create -a macro to execute those commands with a single key. +a macro to execute those commands with a single key or fewer keys. -menu is the map which the macro will be bound. Multiple maps may be specified -by separating multiple menu arguments by commas. Whitespace may not be used in -between the menu arguments and the commas separating them. +menu is the map which the macro will be bound in. Multiple maps may be +specified by separating multiple menu arguments by commas. Whitespace may not +be used in between the menu arguments and the commas separating them. -key and sequence are expanded by the same rules as the key bindings. There are -some additions however. The first is that control characters in sequence can -also be specified as ^x. In order to get a caret (`^'') you need to use ^^. -Secondly, to specify a certain key such as up or to invoke a function directly, -you can use the format and . For a listing of key -names see the section on key bindings. Functions are listed in the reference. +key and sequence are expanded by the same rules as the key bindings with some +additions. The first is that control characters in sequence can also be +specified as ^x. In order to get a caret (?^?) you need to use ^^. Secondly, to +specify a certain key such as up or to invoke a function directly, you can use +the format and . For a listing of key names see the +section on key bindings. Functions are listed in the reference. The advantage with using function names directly is that the macros will work regardless of the current key bindings, so they are not dependent on the user @@ -1886,82 +2104,87 @@ and also facilitates defining of macros in files used by more than one user Optionally you can specify a descriptive text after sequence, which is shown in the help screens. -Note: Macro definitions (if any) listed in the help screen(s), are silently -truncated at the screen width, and are not wrapped. +Note + +Macro definitions (if any) listed in the help screen(s), are silently truncated +at the screen width, and are not wrapped. -8. Using color and mono video attributes +9. Using color and mono video attributes +Usage: -Usage: color object foreground background [ regexp ] -Usage: color index foreground background pattern -Usage: uncolor index pattern [ pattern ... ] +color object foreground background + +color { header | body } foreground background regexp + +color index foreground background pattern + +uncolor index { * | pattern ... } If your terminal supports color, you can spice up Mutt by creating your own color scheme. To define the color of an object (type of information), you must specify both a foreground color and a background color (it is not possible to only specify one or the other). -object can be one of: +header and body match regexp in the header/body of a message, index matches +pattern (see Section 2, ?Patterns: Searching, Limiting and Tagging?) in the +message index. - ● attachment - - ● body (match regexp in the body of messages) - - ● bold (hiliting bold patterns in the body of messages) +object can be one of: - ● error (error messages printed by Mutt) + * attachment - ● header (match regexp in the message header) + * bold (hiliting bold patterns in the body of messages) - ● hdrdefault (default color of the message header in the pager) + * error (error messages printed by Mutt) - ● index (match pattern in the message index) + * hdrdefault (default color of the message header in the pager) - ● indicator (arrow or bar used to indicate the current item in a menu) + * indicator (arrow or bar used to indicate the current item in a menu) - ● markers (the ``+'' markers at the beginning of wrapped lines in the pager) + * markers (the ?+? markers at the beginning of wrapped lines in the pager) - ● message (informational messages) + * message (informational messages) - ● normal + * normal - ● quoted (text matching $quote_regexp in the body of a message) + * quoted (text matching $quote_regexp in the body of a message) - ● quoted1, quoted2, ..., quotedN (higher levels of quoting) + * quoted1, quoted2, ..., quotedN (higher levels of quoting) - ● search (hiliting of words in the pager) + * search (hiliting of words in the pager) - ● signature + * signature - ● status (mode lines used to display info about the mailbox or message) + * status (mode lines used to display info about the mailbox or message) - ● tilde (the ``~'' used to pad blank lines in the pager) + * tilde (the ??? used to pad blank lines in the pager) - ● tree (thread tree drawn in the message index and attachment menu) + * tree (thread tree drawn in the message index and attachment menu) - ● underline (hiliting underlined patterns in the body of messages) + * underline (hiliting underlined patterns in the body of messages) foreground and background can be one of the following: - ● white + * white - ● black + * black - ● green + * green - ● magenta + * magenta - ● blue + * blue - ● cyan + * cyan - ● yellow + * yellow - ● red + * red - ● default + * default - ● colorx + * colorx foreground can optionally be prefixed with the keyword bright to make the foreground color boldfaced (e.g., brightred). @@ -1975,68 +2198,105 @@ variable to the default colors of your terminal for this to work; for example set COLORFGBG="green;black" export COLORFGBG -Note: The S-Lang library requires you to use the lightgray and brown keywords -instead of white and yellow when setting this variable. +Note -Note: The uncolor command can be applied to the index object only. It removes -entries from the list. You must specify the same pattern specified in the color -command for it to be removed. The pattern ``*'' is a special token which means -to clear the color index list of all entries. +The S-Lang library requires you to use the lightgray and brown keywords instead +of white and yellow when setting this variable. -Mutt also recognizes the keywords color0, color1, ..., colorN-1 (N being the +Note + +The uncolor command can be applied to the index object only. It removes entries +from the list. You must specify the same pattern specified in the color command +for it to be removed. The pattern ?*? is a special token which means to clear +the color index list of all entries. + +Mutt also recognizes the keywords color0, color1, ?, colorN-1 (N being the number of colors supported by your terminal). This is useful when you remap the colors for your display (for example by changing the color associated with color2 for your xterm), since color names may then lose their normal meaning. If your terminal does not support color, it is still possible change the video -attributes through the use of the ``mono'' command: +attributes through the use of the ?mono? command: + +Usage: + +mono object attribute + +mono { header | body } attribute regexp + +mono index attribute pattern + +unmono index { * | pattern ... } +For object, see the color command. attribute can be one of the following: -Usage: mono [ regexp ] -Usage: mono index attribute pattern -Usage: unmono index pattern [ pattern ... ] + * none -where attribute is one of the following: + * bold - ● none + * underline - ● bold + * reverse - ● underline + * standout - ● reverse +10. Message header display - ● standout +Usage: -9. Ignoring (weeding) unwanted message headers +ignore pattern [ pattern ...] -Usage: [un]ignorepattern [ pattern ... ] +unignore { * | pattern ... } Messages often have many header fields added by automatic processing systems, or which may not seem useful to display on the screen. This command allows you -to specify header fields which you don't normally want to see. +to specify header fields which you don't normally want to see in the pager. -You do not need to specify the full header field name. For example, ``ignore -content-'' will ignore all header fields that begin with the pattern -``content-''. ``ignore *'' will ignore all headers. +You do not need to specify the full header field name. For example, ?ignore +content-? will ignore all header fields that begin with the pattern ?content-?. +?ignore *? will ignore all headers. -To remove a previously added token from the list, use the ``unignore'' command. -The ``unignore'' command will make Mutt display headers with the given pattern. -For example, if you do ``ignore x-'' it is possible to ``unignore x-mailer''. +To remove a previously added token from the list, use the ?unignore? command. +The ?unignore? command will make Mutt display headers with the given pattern. +For example, if you do ?ignore x-? it is possible to ?unignore x-mailer?. -``unignore *'' will remove all tokens from the ignore list. +?unignore *? will remove all tokens from the ignore list. For example: +Example 3.8. Header weeding + # Sven's draconian header weeding ignore * unignore from date subject to cc unignore organization organisation x-mailer: x-newsreader: x-mailing-list: unignore posted-to: -10. Alternative addresses -Usage: [un]alternates [ -groupname [ ... ] ] regexp [ regexp ... ] +Usage: + +hdr_order header [ header ...] + +unhdr_order { * | header ... } + +With the hdr_order command you can specify an order in which mutt will attempt +to present these headers to you when viewing messages. + +?unhdr_order *? will clear all previous headers from the order list, thus +removing the header order effects set by the system-wide startup file. + +Example 3.9. Configuring header display order + +hdr_order From Date: From: To: Cc: Subject: + + +11. Alternative addresses + +Usage: + +alternates [ -group name ...] regexp [ regexp ...] + +unalternates [ -group name ...] { * | regexp ... } With various functions, mutt will treat messages differently, depending on whether you sent them or whether you received them from someone else. For @@ -2057,8 +2317,8 @@ possible to avoid mismatches. For example, if you specify: alternates user@example -mutt will consider ``some-user@example'' as being your address, too which may -not be desired. As a solution, in such cases addresses should be specified as: +mutt will consider ?some-user@example? as being your address, too which may not +be desired. As a solution, in such cases addresses should be specified as: alternates '^user@example$' @@ -2073,155 +2333,169 @@ under an unalternates command. To remove a regular expression from the alternates list, use the unalternates command with exactly the same regexp. Likewise, if the regexp for an alternates command matches an entry on the unalternates list, that unalternates entry will -be removed. If the regexp for unalternates is ``*'', all entries on alternates +be removed. If the regexp for unalternates is ?*?, all entries on alternates will be removed. -11. Mailing lists +12. Mailing lists + +Usage: +lists [ -group name ...] regexp [ regexp ...] -Usage: [un]lists [ -group name [ ... ] ] regexp [ regexp ... ] -Usage: [un]subscribe [ -group name [ ... ] ] regexp [ regexp ... ] +unlists [ -group name ...] { * | regexp ... } + +subscribe [ -group name ...] regexp [ regexp ...] + +unsubscribe [ -group name ...] { * | regexp ... } Mutt has a few nice features for handling mailing lists. In order to take advantage of them, you must specify which addresses belong to mailing lists, and which mailing lists you are subscribed to. Once you have done this, the -list-reply function will work for all known lists. Additionally, when you send -a message to a subscribed list, mutt will add a Mail-Followup-To header to tell -other users' mail user agents not to send copies of replies to your personal -address. Note that the Mail-Followup-To header is a non-standard extension -which is not supported by all mail user agents. Adding it is not bullet-proof -against receiving personal CCs of list messages. Also note that the generation -of the Mail-Followup-To header is controlled by the $followup_to configuration + function will work for all known lists. Additionally, when you +send a message to a subscribed list, mutt will add a Mail-Followup-To header to +tell other users' mail user agents not to send copies of replies to your +personal address. + +Note + +The Mail-Followup-To header is a non-standard extension which is not supported +by all mail user agents. Adding it is not bullet-proof against receiving +personal CCs of list messages. Also note that the generation of the +Mail-Followup-To header is controlled by the $followup_to configuration variable. More precisely, Mutt maintains lists of patterns for the addresses of known and subscribed mailing lists. Every subscribed mailing list is known. To mark a -mailing list as known, use the ``lists'' command. To mark it as subscribed, use -``subscribe''. +mailing list as known, use the ?lists? command. To mark it as subscribed, use +?subscribe?. You can use regular expressions with both commands. To mark all messages sent to a specific bug report's address on mutt's bug tracking system as list mail, -for instance, you could say ``subscribe [0-9]*@bugs.guug.de''. Often, it's +for instance, you could say ?subscribe [0-9]*@bugs.guug.de?. Often, it's sufficient to just give a portion of the list's e-mail address. Specify as much of the address as you need to to remove ambiguity. For example, if you've subscribed to the Mutt mailing list, you will receive mail addressed to mutt-users@mutt.org. So, to tell Mutt that this is a mailing list, you could -add ``lists mutt-users@'' to your initialization file. To tell mutt that you -are subscribed to it, add ``subscribe mutt-users'' to your initialization file +add ?lists mutt-users@? to your initialization file. To tell mutt that you are +subscribed to it, add ?subscribe mutt-users? to your initialization file instead. If you also happen to get mail from someone whose address is -mutt-users@example.com, you could use ``lists ^mutt-users@mutt\\.org$'' or -``subscribe ^mutt-users@mutt\\.org$'' to match only mail from the actual list. +mutt-users@example.com, you could use ?lists ^mutt-users@mutt\\.org$? or +?subscribe ^mutt-users@mutt\\.org$? to match only mail from the actual list. The -group flag adds all of the subsequent regular expressions to the named group. -The ``unlists'' command is used to remove a token from the list of known and -subscribed mailing-lists. Use ``unlists *'' to remove all tokens. +The ?unlists? command is used to remove a token from the list of known and +subscribed mailing-lists. Use ?unlists *? to remove all tokens. To remove a mailing list from the list of subscribed mailing lists, but keep it -on the list of known mailing lists, use ``unsubscribe''. +on the list of known mailing lists, use ?unsubscribe?. -12. Using Multiple spool mailboxes +13. Using Multiple spool mailboxes -Usage: mbox-hook [!]patternmailbox +Usage: + +mbox-hook [!]pattern mailbox This command is used to move read messages from a specified mailbox to a different mailbox automatically when you quit or change folders. pattern is a -regular expression specifying the mailbox to treat as a ``spool'' mailbox and +regular expression specifying the mailbox to treat as a ?spool? mailbox and mailbox specifies where mail should be saved when read. Unlike some of the other hook commands, only the first matching pattern is used (it is not possible to save read mail in more than a single mailbox). -13. Monitoring incoming mail +14. Monitoring incoming mail + +Usage: + +mailboxes mailbox [ mailbox ...] -Usage: [un]mailboxesfolder [ folder ... ] +unmailboxes { * | mailbox ... } This command specifies folders which can receive mail and which will be checked -for new messages. By default, the main menu status bar displays how many of -these folders have new messages. +for new messages periodically. folder can either be a local file or directory (Mbox/Mmdf or Maildir/Mh). If Mutt was built with POP and/or IMAP support, folder can also be a POP/IMAP -folder URL. The URL syntax is described in Section 1.2, "URL syntax", POP and -IMAP are described in Section 3, "POP3 Support" and Section 4, "IMAP Support" +folder URL. The URL syntax is described in Section 1.2, ?URL syntax?, POP and +IMAP are described in Section 3, ?POP3 Support? and Section 4, ?IMAP Support? respectively. -When changing folders, pressing space will cycle through folders with new mail. +Mutt provides a number of advanced features for handling (possibly many) +folders and new mail within them, please refer to Section 9, ?Handling multiple +folders? for details (including in what situations and how often Mutt checks +for new mail). -Pressing TAB in the directory browser will bring up a menu showing the files -specified by the mailboxes command, and indicate which contain new messages. -Mutt will automatically enter this mode when invoked from the command line with -the -y option. +The ?unmailboxes? command is used to remove a token from the list of folders +which receive mail. Use ?unmailboxes *? to remove all tokens. -The ``unmailboxes'' command is used to remove a token from the list of folders -which receive mail. Use ``unmailboxes *'' to remove all tokens. +Note -Note: the folders in the mailboxes command are resolved when the command is -executed, so if these names contain shortcut characters (such as ``='' and ``! -''), any variable definition that affect these characters (like $folder and -$spoolfile) should be executed before the mailboxes command. If none of these -shorcuts are used, a local path should be absolute as otherwise mutt tries to -find it within the current working directory from where mutt was started which -may not always be desired. +The folders in the mailboxes command are resolved when the command is executed, +so if these names contain shortcut characters (such as ?=? and ?!?), any +variable definition that affects these characters (like $folder and $spoolfile) +should be set before the mailboxes command. If none of these shorcuts are used, +a local path should be absolute as otherwise mutt tries to find it relative to +the directory from where mutt was started which may not always be desired. -For local folders, new mail is detected by comparing access and/or modification -times of files and folders. The interval in which Mutt checks for new mail is -defined by $mail_check. +For Mbox and Mmdf folders, new mail is detected by comparing access and/or +modification times of files: Mutt assumes a folder has new mail if it wasn't +accessed after it was last modified. Utilities like biff or frm or any other +program which accesses the mailbox might cause Mutt to never detect new mail +for that mailbox if they do not properly reset the access time. Other possible +causes of Mutt not detecting new mail in these folders are backup tools +(updating access times) or filesystems mounted without access time update +support. -Special care is required with Mbox and Mmdf folders as Mutt assumes such a -folder has new mail if it wasn't accessed after it was last modified. Utilities -like biff or frm or any other program which accesses the mailbox might cause -Mutt to never detect new mail for that mailbox if they do not properly reset -the access time. Backup tools are another common reason for updated access -times. +In cases where new mail detection for Mbox or Mmdf folders appears to be +unreliable, the $check_mbox_size option can be used to make Mutt track and +consult file sizes for new mail detection instead. -14. User defined headers +15. User defined headers -Usage: my_hdrstringunmy_hdrfield [ field ... ] +Usage: -The ``my_hdr'' command allows you to create your own header fields which will -be added to every message you send. +my_hdr string -For example, if you would like to add an ``Organization:'' header field to all -of your outgoing messages, you can put the command +unmy_hdr { * | field ... } -"my_hdr Organization: A Really Big Company, Anytown, USA" +The my_hdr command allows you to create your own header fields which will be +added to every message you send. -in your .muttrc. +For example, if you would like to add an ?Organization:? header field to all of +your outgoing messages, you can put the command -Note: space characters are not allowed between the keyword and the colon -(``:''). The standard for electronic mail (RFC822) says that space is illegal -there, so Mutt enforces the rule. +Example 3.10. Defining custom headers -If you would like to add a header field to a single message, you should either -set the $edit_headers variable, or use the edit-headers function (default: -``E'') in the send-menu so that you can edit the header of your message along -with the body. +my_hdr Organization: A Really Big Company, Anytown, USA -To remove user defined header fields, use the ``unmy_hdr'' command. You may -specify an asterisk (``*'') to remove all header fields, or the fields to -remove. For example, to remove all ``To'' and ``Cc'' header fields, you could -use: -"unmy_hdr to cc" +in your .muttrc. -15. Defining the order of headers when viewing messages +Note -Usage: hdr_orderheader1header2header3 +Space characters are not allowed between the keyword and the colon (?:?). The +standard for electronic mail (RFC2822) says that space is illegal there, so +Mutt enforces the rule. -With this command, you can specify an order in which mutt will attempt to -present headers to you when viewing messages. +If you would like to add a header field to a single message, you should either +set the $edit_headers variable, or use the function (default: +?E?) in the compose menu so that you can edit the header of your message along +with the body. -``unhdr_order *'' will clear all previous headers from the order list, thus -removing the header order effects set by the system-wide startup file. +To remove user defined header fields, use the unmy_hdr command. You may specify +an asterisk (?*?) to remove all header fields, or the fields to remove. For +example, to remove all ?To? and ?Cc? header fields, you could use: -hdr_order From Date: From: To: Cc: Subject: +unmy_hdr to cc 16. Specify default save mailbox -Usage: save-hook [!]patternmailbox +Usage: + +save-hook [!]pattern mailbox This command is used to override the default mailbox used when saving messages. mailbox will be used as the default if the message matches pattern, see Message @@ -2232,18 +2506,25 @@ $index_format to mailbox after it was expanded. Examples: +Example 3.11. Using %-expandos in save-hook + # default: save all to ~/Mail/ save-hook . ~/Mail/%F -# save from me@turing.cs.hmc.edu/me@cs.hmc.edu to $folder/elinks + +# save from me@turing.cs.hmc.edu and me@cs.hmc.edu to $folder/elkins save-hook me@(turing\\.)?cs\\.hmc\\.edu$ +elkins + # save from aol.com to $folder/spam save-hook aol\\.com$ +spam + Also see the fcc-save-hook command. 17. Specify default Fcc: mailbox when composing -Usage: fcc-hook [!]patternmailbox +Usage: + +fcc-hook [!]pattern mailbox This command is used to save outgoing mail in a mailbox other than $record. Mutt searches the initial list of message recipients for the first matching @@ -2262,7 +2543,9 @@ The above will save a copy of all messages going to the aol.com domain to the 18. Specify default save filename and default Fcc: mailbox at once -Usage: fcc-save-hook [!]patternmailbox +Usage: + +fcc-save-hook [!]pattern mailbox This command is a shortcut, equivalent to doing both a fcc-hook and a save-hook with its arguments, including %-expansion on mailbox according to $index_format @@ -2270,20 +2553,27 @@ with its arguments, including %-expansion on mailbox according to $index_format 19. Change settings based upon message recipients +Usage: + +reply-hook [!]pattern command -Usage: reply-hook [!]pattern command -Usage: send-hook [!]pattern command -Usage: send2-hook [!]pattern command +send-hook [!]pattern command + +send2-hook [!]pattern command These commands can be used to execute arbitrary configuration commands based -upon recipients of the message. pattern is a regular expression matching the -desired address. command is executed when regexp matches recipients of the -message. +upon recipients of the message. pattern is used to match the message, see +Message Matching in Hooks for details. command is executed when pattern +matches. -reply-hook is matched against the message you are replyingto, instead of the +reply-hook is matched against the message you are replying to, instead of the message you are sending. send-hook is matched against all messages, both new -and replies. Note:reply-hooks are matched before the send-hook, regardless of -the order specified in the user's configuration file. +and replies. + +Note + +reply-hooks are matched before the send-hook, regardless of the order specified +in the user's configuration file. send2-hook is matched every time a message is changed, either by editing it, or by using the compose menu to change its recipients or subject. send2-hook is @@ -2294,23 +2584,25 @@ For each type of send-hook or reply-hook, when multiple matches occur, commands are executed in the order they are specified in the muttrc (for that type of hook). -See Message Matching in Hooks for information on the exact format of pattern. - Example: send-hook mutt "set mime_forward signature=''" Another typical use for this command is to change the values of the $attribution, $signature and $locale variables in order to change the language of the attributions and signatures based upon the recipients. -Note: the send-hook's are only executed ONCE after getting the initial list of -recipients. Adding a recipient after replying or editing the message will NOT +Note + +send-hook's are only executed once after getting the initial list of +recipients. Adding a recipient after replying or editing the message will not cause any send-hook to be executed. Also note that my_hdr commands which modify recipient headers, or the message's subject, don't have any effect on the current message when executed from a send-hook. 20. Change settings before formatting a message -Usage: message-hook [!]patterncommand +Usage: + +message-hook [!]pattern command This command can be used to execute arbitrary configuration commands before viewing or formatting a message based upon information about the message. @@ -2327,21 +2619,25 @@ message-hook '~f freshmeat-news' 'set pager="less \"+/^ subject: .*\""' 21. Choosing the cryptographic key of the recipient -Usage: crypt-hookpatternkeyid +Usage: -When encrypting messages with PGP or OpenSSL, you may want to associate a +crypt-hook pattern keyid + +When encrypting messages with PGP/GnuPG or OpenSSL, you may want to associate a certain key with a given e-mail address automatically, either because the recipient's public key can't be deduced from the destination address, or because, for some reasons, you need to override the key Mutt would normally use. The crypt-hook command provides a method by which you can specify the ID of the public key to be used when encrypting messages to a certain recipient. -The meaning of "key id" is to be taken broadly in this context: You can either -put a numerical key ID here, an e-mail address, or even just a real name. +The meaning of keyid is to be taken broadly in this context: You can either put +a numerical key ID here, an e-mail address, or even just a real name. 22. Adding key sequences to the keyboard buffer -Usage: pushstring +Usage: + +push string This command adds the named string to the keyboard buffer. The string may contain control characters, key names and function names like the sequence @@ -2350,25 +2646,32 @@ commands at startup, or when entering certain folders. For example, the following command will automatically collapse all threads when entering a folder: +Example 3.12. Embedding push in folder-hook + folder-hook . 'push ' + 23. Executing functions -Usage: execfunction [ function ... ] +Usage: + +exec function [ function ...] This command can be used to execute any function. Functions are listed in the -function reference. ``exec function'' is equivalent to ``push ''. +function reference. ?exec function? is equivalent to ?push ?. 24. Message Scoring +Usage: -Usage: score pattern value -Usage: unscore pattern [ pattern ... ] +score pattern value + +unscore { * | pattern ... } The score commands adds value to a message's score if pattern matches it. pattern is a string in the format described in the patterns section (note: For efficiency reasons, patterns which scan information not available in the index, -such as ~b, ~B or ~h, may not be used). value is a positive or negative +such as ?b, ?B or ?h, may not be used). value is a positive or negative integer. A message's final score is the sum total of all matching score entries. However, you may optionally prefix value with an equal sign (=) to cause evaluation to stop at a particular entry if there is a match. Negative @@ -2376,13 +2679,15 @@ final scores are rounded up to 0. The unscore command removes score entries from the list. You must specify the same pattern specified in the score command for it to be removed. The pattern -``*'' is a special token which means to clear the list of all score entries. +?*? is a special token which means to clear the list of all score entries. 25. Spam detection +Usage: + +spam pattern format -Usage: spam pattern format -Usage: nospam pattern +nospam { * | pattern } Mutt has generalized support for external spam-scoring filters. By defining your spam patterns with the spam and nospam commands, you can limit, search, @@ -2394,11 +2699,11 @@ spam tags only when they are defined for a given message.) Your first step is to define your external filter's spam patterns using the spam command. pattern should be a regular expression that matches a header in a mail message. If any message in the mailbox matches this regular expression, it -will receive a ``spam tag'' or ``spam attribute'' (unless it also matches a -nospam pattern -- see below.) The appearance of this attribute is entirely up -to you, and is governed by the format parameter. format can be any static text, -but it also can include back-references from the pattern expression. (A regular -expression ``back-reference'' refers to a sub-expression contained within +will receive a ?spam tag? or ?spam attribute? (unless it also matches a nospam +pattern -- see below.) The appearance of this attribute is entirely up to you, +and is governed by the format parameter. format can be any static text, but it +also can include back-references from the pattern expression. (A regular +expression ?back-reference? refers to a sub-expression contained within parentheses.) %1 is replaced with the first back-reference in the regex, %2 with the second, etc. @@ -2411,24 +2716,27 @@ strings joined together, with the value of $spam_separator separating them. For example, suppose I use DCC, SpamAssassin, and PureMessage. I might define these spam settings: +Example 3.13. Configuring spam detection + spam "X-DCC-.*-Metrics:.*(....)=many" "90+/DCC-%1" spam "X-Spam-Status: Yes" "90+/SA" spam "X-PerlMX-Spam: .*Probability=([0-9]+)%" "%1/PM" set spam_separator=", " -If I then received a message that DCC registered with ``many'' hits under the -``Fuz2'' checksum, and that PureMessage registered with a 97% probability of + +If I then received a message that DCC registered with ?many? hits under the +?Fuz2? checksum, and that PureMessage registered with a 97% probability of being spam, that message's spam tag would read 90+/DCC-Fuz2, 97/PM. (The four -characters before ``=many'' in a DCC report indicate the checksum used -- in -this case, ``Fuz2''.) +characters before ?=many? in a DCC report indicate the checksum used -- in this +case, ?Fuz2?.) If the $spam_separator variable is unset, then each spam pattern match supersedes the previous one. Instead of getting joined format strings, you'll get only the last one to match. The spam tag is what will be displayed in the index when you use %H in the -$index_format variable. It's also the string that the ~H pattern-matching -expression matches against for search and limit functions. And it's what +$index_format variable. It's also the string that the ?H pattern-matching +expression matches against for and functions. And it's what sorting by spam attribute will use as a sort key. That's a pretty complicated example, and most people's actual environments will @@ -2441,8 +2749,8 @@ mutt will sort numerically first, and lexically only when two numbers are equal in value. (This is like UNIX's sort -n.) A message with no spam attributes at all -- that is, one that didn't match any of your spam patterns -- is sorted at lowest priority. Numbers are sorted next, beginning with 0 and ranging upward. -Finally, non-numeric strings are sorted, with ``a'' taking lower priority than -``z''. Clearly, in general, sorting by spam tags is most effective when you can +Finally, non-numeric strings are sorted, with ?a? taking lower priority than +?z?. Clearly, in general, sorting by spam tags is most effective when you can coerce your filter to give you a raw number. But in case you can't, mutt can still do something useful. @@ -2455,7 +2763,7 @@ If the pattern given to nospam is exactly the same as the pattern on an existing spam list entry, the effect will be to remove the entry from the spam list, instead of adding an exception. Likewise, if the pattern for a spam command matches an entry on the nospam list, that nospam entry will be removed. -If the pattern for nospam is ``*'', all entries on both lists will be removed. +If the pattern for nospam is ?*?, all entries on both lists will be removed. This might be the default action if you use spam and nospam in conjunction with a folder-hook. @@ -2471,29 +2779,31 @@ spam "^From: .*MAILER-DAEMON" "999" The following commands are available to manipulate and query variables: +Usage: -Usage: set [no|inv]variable[=value] [ variable ... ] -Usage: toggle variable [variable ... ] -Usage: unset variable [variable ... ] -Usage: reset variable [variable ... ] +set { [ no | inv ] variable | variable=value } [...] -This command is used to set (and unset) configuration variables. There are four -basic types of variables: boolean, number, string and quadoption. boolean -variables can be set (true) or unset (false). number variables can be assigned -a positive integer value. +toggle variable [ variable ...] -string variables consist of any number of printable characters. strings must be -enclosed in quotes if they contain spaces or tabs. You may also use the ``C'' -escape sequences \n and \t for newline and tab, respectively. +unset variable [ variable ...] -quadoption variables are used to control whether or not to be prompted for -certain actions, or to specify a default action. A value of yes will cause the -action to be carried out automatically as if you had answered yes to the -question. Similarly, a value of no will cause the action to be carried out as -if you had answered ``no.'' A value of ask-yes will cause a prompt with a -default answer of ``yes'' and ask-no will provide a default answer of ``no.'' +reset variable [ variable ...] -Prefixing a variable with ``no'' will unset it. Example: set noaskbcc. +This command is used to set (and unset) configuration variables. There are four +basic types of variables: boolean, number, string and quadoption. boolean +variables can be set (true) or unset (false). number variables can be assigned +a positive integer value. string variables consist of any number of printable +characters and must be enclosed in quotes if they contain spaces or tabs. You +may also use the escape sequences ?\n? and ?\t? for newline and tab, +respectively. quadoption variables are used to control whether or not to be +prompted for certain actions, or to specify a default action. A value of yes +will cause the action to be carried out automatically as if you had answered +yes to the question. Similarly, a value of no will cause the action to be +carried out as if you had answered ?no.? A value of ask-yes will cause a prompt +with a default answer of ?yes? and ask-no will provide a default answer of +?no.? + +Prefixing a variable with ?no? will unset it. Example: set noaskbcc. For boolean variables, you may optionally prefix the variable name with inv to toggle the value (on or off). This is useful when writing macros. Example: set @@ -2505,8 +2815,8 @@ variables. The unset command automatically prepends the no prefix to all specified variables. -Using the enter-command function in the index menu, you can query the value of -a variable by prefixing the name of the variable with a question mark: +Using the function in the index menu, you can query the value +of a variable by prefixing the name of the variable with a question mark: set ?allow_8bit @@ -2515,9 +2825,9 @@ variables. The reset command resets all given variables to the compile time defaults (hopefully mentioned in this manual). If you use the command set and prefix the -variable with ``&'' this has the same behavior as the reset command. +variable with ?&? this has the same behavior as the reset command. -With the reset command there exists the special variable ``all'', which allows +With the reset command there exists the special variable ?all?, which allows you to reset all variables to their system defaults. 26.2. User-defined variables @@ -2528,35 +2838,42 @@ Along with the variables listed in the Configuration variables section, mutt supports user-defined variables with names starting with my_ as in, for example, my_cfgdir. -The set command creates a custom $my_ variable and changes its value. The unset -and reset commands remove the variable entirely. +The set command either creates a custom my_ variable or changes its value if it +does exist already. The unset and reset commands remove the variable entirely. Since user-defined variables are expanded in the same way that environment -variables are (except for the shell-escape command), this feature can be used -to make configuration files more readable. +variables are (except for the shell-escape command and backtick expansion), +this feature can be used to make configuration files more readable. 26.2.2. Examples The following example defines and uses the variable my_cfgdir to abbreviate the calls of the source command: +Example 3.14. Using user-defined variables for config file readability + set my_cfgdir = $HOME/mutt/config source $my_cfgdir/hooks source $my_cfgdir/macros # more source commands... + A custom variable can also be used in macros to backup the current value of another variable. In the following example, the value of the $delete is changed temporarily while its original value is saved as my_delete. After the macro has executed all commands, the original value of $delete is restored. +Example 3.15. Using user-defined variables for backing up other config option +values + macro pager ,x '\ set my_delete=$delete\ set delete=yes\ ...\ set delete=$my_delete' + Since mutt expands such values already when parsing the configuration file(s), the value of $my_delete in the last example would be the value of $delete exactly as it was at that point during parsing the configuration file. If @@ -2565,65 +2882,71 @@ another file, it would have no effect on $my_delete. However, the expansion can be deferred to runtime, as shown in the next example, when escaping the dollar sign. +Example 3.16. Deferring user-defined variable expansion to runtime + macro pager "\ set my_old_pager_stop=\$pager_stop pager_stop\ \ set pager_stop=\$my_old_pager_stop\ unset my_old_pager_stop" + Note that there is a space between and the set configuration command, preventing mutt from recording the macro's commands into its history. 27. Reading initialization commands from another file -Usage: sourcefilename +Usage: + +source filename This command allows the inclusion of initialization commands from other files. -For example, I place all of my aliases in ~/.mail_aliases so that I can make my -~/.muttrc readable and keep my aliases private. +For example, I place all of my aliases in ?/.mail_aliases so that I can make my +?/.muttrc readable and keep my aliases private. -If the filename begins with a tilde (``~''), it will be expanded to the path of +If the filename begins with a tilde (???), it will be expanded to the path of your home directory. If the filename ends with a vertical bar (|), then filename is considered to be -an executable program from which to read input (eg. source ~/bin/myscript|). +an executable program from which to read input (eg. source ?/bin/myscript|). 28. Removing hooks -Usage: unhook [ * | hook-type ] +Usage: + +unhook { * | hook-type } This command permits you to flush hooks you have previously defined. You can -either remove all hooks by giving the ``*'' character as an argument, or you -can remove all hooks of a specific type by saying something like unhook -send-hook. +either remove all hooks by giving the ?*? character as an argument, or you can +remove all hooks of a specific type by saying something like unhook send-hook. 29. Format Strings 29.1. Basic usage Format strings are a general concept you'll find in several locations through -the mutt configuration, especially in the $index_format", $pager_format", -$status_format", and other ``*_format'' variables. These can be very +the mutt configuration, especially in the $index_format, $pager_format, +$status_format, and other ?*_format? variables. These can be very straightforward, and it's quite possible you already know how to use them. The most basic format string element is a percent symbol followed by another character. For example, %s represents a message's Subject: header in the -$index_format" variable. The ``expandos'' available are documented with each +$index_format variable. The ?expandos? available are documented with each format variable, but there are general modifiers available with all formatting expandos, too. Those are our concern here. -Some of the modifers are borrowed right out of C (though you might know them -from Perl, Python, shell, or another langugage). These are the [-]m.n -modifiers, as in %-12.12s. As with such programming languages, these modifiers -allow you to specify the minumum and maximum size of the resulting string, as -well as its justification. If the ``-'' sign follows the percent, the string -will be left-justified instead of right-justified. If there's a number -immediately following that, it's the minimum amount of space the formatted -string will occupy -- if it's naturally smaller than that, it will be padded -out with spaces. If a decimal point and another number follow, that's the -maximum space allowable -- the string will not be permitted to exceed that -width, no matter its natural size. Each of these three elements is optional, so -that all these are legal format strings: %-12s%4c%.15F%-12.15L +Some of the modifiers are borrowed right out of C (though you might know them +from Perl, Python, shell, or another language). These are the [-]m.n modifiers, +as in %-12.12s. As with such programming languages, these modifiers allow you +to specify the minimum and maximum size of the resulting string, as well as its +justification. If the ?-? sign follows the percent, the string will be +left-justified instead of right-justified. If there's a number immediately +following that, it's the minimum amount of space the formatted string will +occupy -- if it's naturally smaller than that, it will be padded out with +spaces. If a decimal point and another number follow, that's the maximum space +allowable -- the string will not be permitted to exceed that width, no matter +its natural size. Each of these three elements is optional, so that all these +are legal format strings: %-12s %4c %.15F %-12.15L Mutt adds some other modifiers to format strings. If you use an equals symbol (=) as a numeric prefix (like the minus above), it will force the string to be @@ -2631,17 +2954,17 @@ centered within its minimum space range. For example, %=14y will reserve 14 characters for the %y expansion -- that's the X-Label: header, in $index_format. If the expansion results in a string less than 14 characters, it will be centered in a 14-character space. If the X-Label for a message were -"test", that expansion would look like `` test ''. +"test", that expansion would look like ? test ?. There are two very little-known modifiers that affect the way that an expando -is replaced. If there is an underline (``_'') character between any format +is replaced. If there is an underline (?_?) character between any format modifiers (as above) and the expando letter, it will expands in all lower case. -And if you use a colon (``:''), it will replace all decimal points with +And if you use a colon (?:?), it will replace all decimal points with underlines. 29.2. Filters -Any format string ending in a vertical bar (``|'') will be expanded and piped +Any format string ending in a vertical bar (?|?) will be expanded and piped through the first word in the string, using spaces as separator. The string returned will be used for display. If the returned string ends in %, it will be passed through the formatter a second time. This allows the filter to generate @@ -2650,8 +2973,11 @@ a replacement format string including % expandos. All % expandos in a format string are expanded before the script is called so that: +Example 3.17. Using external filters in format strings + set status_format="script.sh '%r %f (%L)'|" + will make mutt expand %r, %f and %L before calling the script. The example also shows that arguments can be quoted: the script will receive the expanded string between the single quotes as the only argument. @@ -2681,29 +3007,36 @@ Table of Contents 6. Mailbox Formats 7. Mailbox Shortcuts 8. Handling Mailing Lists -9. Editing threads +9. Handling multiple folders +10. Editing threads - 9.1. Linking threads - 9.2. Breaking threads + 10.1. Linking threads + 10.2. Breaking threads -10. Delivery Status Notification (DSN) Support -11. Start a WWW Browser on URLs (EXTERNAL) +11. Delivery Status Notification (DSN) Support +12. Start a WWW Browser on URLs 1. Regular Expressions All string patterns in Mutt including those in more complex patterns must be -specified using regular expressions (regexp) in the ``POSIX extended'' syntax +specified using regular expressions (regexp) in the ?POSIX extended? syntax (which is more or less the syntax used by egrep and GNU awk). For your convenience, we have included below a brief description of this syntax. The search is case sensitive if the pattern contains at least one upper case -letter, and case insensitive otherwise. Note that ``\'' must be quoted if used -for a regular expression in an initialization command: ``\\''. +letter, and case insensitive otherwise. + +Note + +Note that ?\? must be quoted if used for a regular expression in an +initialization command: ?\\?. A regular expression is a pattern that describes a set of strings. Regular expressions are constructed analogously to arithmetic expressions, by using various operators to combine smaller expressions. +Note + Note that the regular expression can be enclosed/delimited by either " or ' which is useful if the regular expression includes a white-space character. See Syntax of Initialization Files for more information on " and ' delimiter @@ -2714,78 +3047,66 @@ character. Most characters, including all letters and digits, are regular expressions that match themselves. Any metacharacter with special meaning may be quoted by preceding it with a backslash. -The period ``.'' matches any single character. The caret ``^'' and the dollar -sign ``$'' are metacharacters that respectively match the empty string at the +The period ?.? matches any single character. The caret ?^? and the dollar sign +?$? are metacharacters that respectively match the empty string at the beginning and end of a line. -A list of characters enclosed by ``['' and ``]'' matches any single character -in that list; if the first character of the list is a caret ``^'' then it -matches any character not in the list. For example, the regular expression -[0123456789] matches any single digit. A range of ASCII characters may be -specified by giving the first and last characters, separated by a hyphen ``-''. -Most metacharacters lose their special meaning inside lists. To include a -literal ``]'' place it first in the list. Similarly, to include a literal ``^'' -place it anywhere but first. Finally, to include a literal hyphen ``-'' place -it last. +A list of characters enclosed by ?[? and ?]? matches any single character in +that list; if the first character of the list is a caret ?^? then it matches +any character not in the list. For example, the regular expression [0123456789] +matches any single digit. A range of ASCII characters may be specified by +giving the first and last characters, separated by a hyphen ?-?. Most +metacharacters lose their special meaning inside lists. To include a literal ?] +? place it first in the list. Similarly, to include a literal ?^? place it +anywhere but first. Finally, to include a literal hyphen ?-? place it last. Certain named classes of characters are predefined. Character classes consist -of ``[:'', a keyword denoting the class, and ``:]''. The following classes are -defined by the POSIX standard: - -[:alnum:] - - Alphanumeric characters. - -[:alpha:] - - Alphabetic characters. - -[:blank:] - - Space or tab characters. - -[:cntrl:] - - Control characters. - -[:digit:] - - Numeric characters. - -[:graph:] - - Characters that are both printable and visible. (A space is printable, but - not visible, while an ``a'' is both.) - -[:lower:] - - Lower-case alphabetic characters. - -[:print:] - - Printable characters (characters that are not control characters.) - -[:punct:] - - Punctuation characters (characters that are not letter, digits, control - characters, or space characters). - -[:space:] +of ?[:?, a keyword denoting the class, and ?:]?. The following classes are +defined by the POSIX standard in Table 4.1, ?POSIX regular expression character +classes? + +Table 4.1. POSIX regular expression character classes + ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +|Character | Description | +| class | | +|----------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|[:alnum:] |Alphanumeric characters | +|----------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|[:alpha:] |Alphabetic characters | +|----------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|[:blank:] |Space or tab characters | +|----------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|[:cntrl:] |Control characters | +|----------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|[:digit:] |Numeric characters | +|----------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|[:graph:] |Characters that are both printable and visible. (A space is | +| |printable, but not visible, while an ?a? is both) | +|----------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|[:lower:] |Lower-case alphabetic characters | +|----------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|[:print:] |Printable characters (characters that are not control characters) | +|----------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|[:punct:] |Punctuation characters (characters that are not letter, digits, | +| |control characters, or space characters) | +|----------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|[:space:] |Space characters (such as space, tab and formfeed, to name a few) | +|----------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|[:upper:] |Upper-case alphabetic characters | +|----------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|[:xdigit:]|Characters that are hexadecimal digits | ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ - Space characters (such as space, tab and formfeed, to name a few). -[:upper:] - - Upper-case alphabetic characters. - -[:xdigit:] +A character class is only valid in a regular expression inside the brackets of +a character list. - Characters that are hexadecimal digits. +Note -A character class is only valid in a regular expression inside the brackets of -a character list. Note that the brackets in these class names are part of the -symbolic names, and must be included in addition to the brackets delimiting the -bracket list. For example, [[:digit:]] is equivalent to [0-9]. +Note that the brackets in these class names are part of the symbolic names, and +must be included in addition to the brackets delimiting the bracket list. For +example, [[:digit:]] is equivalent to [0-9]. Two additional special sequences can appear in character lists. These apply to non-ASCII character sets, which can have single symbols (called collating @@ -2794,95 +3115,85 @@ characters that are equivalent for collating or sorting purposes: Collating Symbols - A collating symbol is a multi-character collating element enclosed in - ``[.'' and ``.]''. For example, if ``ch'' is a collating element, then - [[.ch.]] is a regexp that matches this collating element, while [ch] is a - regexp that matches either ``c'' or ``h''. + A collating symbol is a multi-character collating element enclosed in ?[.? + and ?.]?. For example, if ?ch? is a collating element, then [[.ch.]] is a + regexp that matches this collating element, while [ch] is a regexp that + matches either ?c? or ?h?. Equivalence Classes An equivalence class is a locale-specific name for a list of characters - that are equivalent. The name is enclosed in ``[='' and ``=]''. For - example, the name ``e'' might be used to represent all of ``è'' ``é'' and - ``e''. In this case, [[=e=]] is a regexp that matches any of ``è'', ``é'' - and ``e''. + that are equivalent. The name is enclosed in ?[=? and ?=]?. For example, + the name ?e? might be used to represent all of ??? ??? and ?e?. In this + case, [[=e=]] is a regexp that matches any of ???, ??? and ?e?. A regular expression matching a single character may be followed by one of -several repetition operators: - -? - - The preceding item is optional and matched at most once. - -* - - The preceding item will be matched zero or more times. - -+ - - The preceding item will be matched one or more times. - -{n} - - The preceding item is matched exactly n times. - -{n,} - - The preceding item is matched n or more times. - -{,m} +several repetition operators described in Table 4.2, ?Regular expression +repetition operators?. + +Table 4.2. Regular expression repetition operators + ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +|Operator| Description | +|--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------| +|? |The preceding item is optional and matched at most once | +|--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------| +|* |The preceding item will be matched zero or more times | +|--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------| +|+ |The preceding item will be matched one or more times | +|--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------| +|{n} |The preceding item is matched exactly n times | +|--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------| +|{n,} |The preceding item is matched n or more times | +|--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------| +|{,m} |The preceding item is matched at most m times | +|--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------| +|{n,m} |The preceding item is matched at least n times, but no more than m | +| |times | ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ - The preceding item is matched at most m times. - -{n,m} - - The preceding item is matched at least n times, but no more than m times. Two regular expressions may be concatenated; the resulting regular expression matches any string formed by concatenating two substrings that respectively match the concatenated subexpressions. -Two regular expressions may be joined by the infix operator ``|''; the -resulting regular expression matches any string matching either subexpression. +Two regular expressions may be joined by the infix operator ?|?; the resulting +regular expression matches any string matching either subexpression. Repetition takes precedence over concatenation, which in turn takes precedence over alternation. A whole subexpression may be enclosed in parentheses to override these precedence rules. -Note: If you compile Mutt with the GNU rx package, the following operators may -also be used in regular expressions: - -\\y - - Matches the empty string at either the beginning or the end of a word. - -\\B - - Matches the empty string within a word. - -\\< - - Matches the empty string at the beginning of a word. - -\\> - - Matches the empty string at the end of a word. - -\\w - - Matches any word-constituent character (letter, digit, or underscore). - -\\W - - Matches any character that is not word-constituent. +Note + +If you compile Mutt with the GNU rx package, the following operators may also +be used in regular expressions as described in Table 4.3, ?GNU regular +expression extensions?. + +Table 4.3. GNU regular expression extensions + ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +|Expression| Description | +|----------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|\\y |Matches the empty string at either the beginning or the end of a | +| |word | +|----------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|\\B |Matches the empty string within a word | +|----------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|\\< |Matches the empty string at the beginning of a word | +|----------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|\\> |Matches the empty string at the end of a word | +|----------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|\\w |Matches any word-constituent character (letter, digit, or | +| |underscore) | +|----------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|\\W |Matches any character that is not word-constituent | +|----------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|\\` |Matches the empty string at the beginning of a buffer (string) | +|----------+------------------------------------------------------------------| +|\\' |Matches the empty string at the end of a buffer | ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -\\` - - Matches the empty string at the beginning of a buffer (string). - -\\' - - Matches the empty string at the end of a buffer. Please note however that these operators are not defined by POSIX, so they may or may not be available in stock libraries on various systems. @@ -2890,193 +3201,195 @@ or may not be available in stock libraries on various systems. 2. Patterns: Searching, Limiting and Tagging Many of Mutt's commands allow you to specify a pattern to match (limit, -tag-pattern, delete-pattern, etc.). Table 4.1, "Pattern modifiers" shows +tag-pattern, delete-pattern, etc.). Table 4.4, ?Pattern modifiers? shows several ways to select messages. -Table 4.1. Pattern modifiers - -┌─────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ -│ Pattern │ Description │ -│modifier │ │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~A │all messages │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~b EXPR │messages which contain EXPR in the message body │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ │messages which contain STRING in the message body. If IMAP is │ -│=b STRING│enabled, searches for STRING on the server, rather than downloading│ -│ │each message and searching it locally. │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~B EXPR │messages which contain EXPR in the whole message │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~c EXPR │messages carbon-copied to EXPR │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│%c GROUP │messages carbon-copied to any member of GROUP │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~C EXPR │message is either to: or cc: EXPR │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│%C GROUP │message is either to: or cc: to any member of GROUP │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~d [MIN]-│messages with ``date-sent'' in a Date range │ -│[MAX] │ │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~D │deleted messages │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~e EXPR │message which contains EXPR in the ``Sender'' field │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│%e GROUP │message which contain a member of GROUP in the ``Sender'' field │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~E │expired messages │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~F │flagged messages │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~f EXPR │messages originating from EXPR │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│%f GROUP │messages originating from any member of GROUP │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~g │cryptographically signed messages │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~G │cryptographically encrypted messages │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~h EXPR │messages which contain EXPR in the message header │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~H EXPR │messages with a spam attribute matching EXPR │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~i EXPR │message which match EXPR in the ``Message-ID'' field │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~k │message contains PGP key material │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~L EXPR │message is either originated or received by EXPR │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│%L GROUP │message is either originated or received by any member of GROUP │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~l │message is addressed to a known mailing list │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~m [MIN]-│message in the range MIN to MAX *) │ -│[MAX] │ │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~n [MIN]-│messages with a score in the range MIN to MAX *) │ -│[MAX] │ │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~N │new messages │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~O │old messages │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~p │message is addressed to you (consults alternates) │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~P │message is from you (consults alternates) │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~Q │messages which have been replied to │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~r [MIN]-│messages with ``date-received'' in a Date range │ -│[MAX] │ │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~R │read messages │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~s EXPR │messages having EXPR in the ``Subject'' field. │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~S │superseded messages │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~t EXPR │messages addressed to EXPR │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~T │tagged messages │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~u │message is addressed to a subscribed mailing list │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~U │unread messages │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~v │message is part of a collapsed thread. │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~V │cryptographically verified messages │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~x EXPR │messages which contain EXPR in the `References' field │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~X [MIN]-│messages with MIN to MAX attachments *) │ -│[MAX] │ │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~y EXPR │messages which contain EXPR in the `X-Label' field │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~z [MIN]-│messages with a size in the range MIN to MAX *) │ -│[MAX] │ │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~= │duplicated messages (see $duplicate_threads) │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~$ │unreferenced messages (requires threaded view) │ -├─────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│~ │messages in threads containing messages matching a certain pattern,│ -│(PATTERN)│e.g. all threads containing messages from you: ~(~P) │ -└─────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ +Table 4.4. Pattern modifiers + ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| Pattern | Description | +|modifier | | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~A |all messages | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~b EXPR |messages which contain EXPR in the message body | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +| |messages which contain STRING in the message body. If IMAP is | +|=b STRING|enabled, searches for STRING on the server, rather than downloading| +| |each message and searching it locally. | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~B EXPR |messages which contain EXPR in the whole message | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~c EXPR |messages carbon-copied to EXPR | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|%c GROUP |messages carbon-copied to any member of GROUP | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~C EXPR |messages either to: or cc: EXPR | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|%C GROUP |messages either to: or cc: to any member of GROUP | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~d [MIN]-|messages with ?date-sent? in a Date range | +|[MAX] | | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~D |deleted messages | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~e EXPR |messages which contains EXPR in the ?Sender? field | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|%e GROUP |messages which contain a member of GROUP in the ?Sender? field | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~E |expired messages | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~F |flagged messages | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~f EXPR |messages originating from EXPR | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|%f GROUP |messages originating from any member of GROUP | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~g |cryptographically signed messages | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~G |cryptographically encrypted messages | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~h EXPR |messages which contain EXPR in the message header | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~H EXPR |messages with a spam attribute matching EXPR | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~i EXPR |messages which match EXPR in the ?Message-ID? field | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~k |messages which contain PGP key material | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~L EXPR |messages either originated or received by EXPR | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|%L GROUP |message either originated or received by any member of GROUP | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~l |messages addressed to a known mailing list | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~m [MIN]-|messages in the range MIN to MAX *) | +|[MAX] | | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~n [MIN]-|messages with a score in the range MIN to MAX *) | +|[MAX] | | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~N |new messages | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~O |old messages | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~p |messages addressed to you (consults alternates) | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~P |messages from you (consults alternates) | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~Q |messages which have been replied to | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~r [MIN]-|messages with ?date-received? in a Date range | +|[MAX] | | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~R |read messages | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~s EXPR |messages having EXPR in the ?Subject? field. | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~S |superseded messages | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~t EXPR |messages addressed to EXPR | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~T |tagged messages | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~u |messages addressed to a subscribed mailing list | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~U |unread messages | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~v |messages part of a collapsed thread. | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~V |cryptographically verified messages | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~x EXPR |messages which contain EXPR in the ?References? field | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~X [MIN]-|messages with MIN to MAX attachments *) | +|[MAX] | | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~y EXPR |messages which contain EXPR in the ?X-Label? field | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~z [MIN]-|messages with a size in the range MIN to MAX *) | +|[MAX] | | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~= |duplicated messages (see $duplicate_threads) | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~$ |unreferenced messages (requires threaded view) | +|---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------| +|~(PATTERN|messages in threads containing messages matching PATTERN, e.g. all | +|) |threads containing messages from you: ~(~P) | ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Where EXPR is a regular expression. Special attention has to be made when using regular expressions inside of patterns. Specifically, Mutt's parser for these -patterns will strip one level of backslash (\), which is normally used for +patterns will strip one level of backslash (?\?), which is normally used for quoting. If it is your intention to use a backslash in the regular expression, -you will need to use two backslashes instead (\\). You can force mutt to treat -EXPR as a simple string instead of a regular expression by using = instead of ~ -in the pattern name. For example, =b *.* will find all messages that contain -the literal string '*.*'. Simple string matches are less powerful than regular -expressions but can be considerably faster. This is especially true for IMAP -folders, because string matches can be performed on the server instead of by -fetching every message. IMAP treats =h specially: it must be of the form -"header: substring" and will not partially match header names. The substring -part may be omitted if you simply wish to find messages containing a particular -header without regard to its value. - -*) The forms <[MAX], >[MIN], [MIN]- and -[MAX] are allowed, too. +you will need to use two backslashes instead (?\\?). You can force mutt to +treat EXPR as a simple string instead of a regular expression by using = +instead of ? in the pattern name. For example, =b *.* will find all messages +that contain the literal string ?*.*?. Simple string matches are less powerful +than regular expressions but can be considerably faster. This is especially +true for IMAP folders, because string matches can be performed on the server +instead of by fetching every message. IMAP treats =h specially: it must be of +the form "header: substring" and will not partially match header names. The +substring part may be omitted if you simply wish to find messages containing a +particular header without regard to its value. + +*) The forms ?<[MAX]?, ?>[MIN]?, ?[MIN]-? and ?-[MAX]? are allowed, too. 2.1. Pattern Modifier -Note that patterns matching 'lists' of addresses (notably c,C,p,P and t) match -if there is at least one match in the whole list. If you want to make sure that -all elements of that list match, you need to prefix your pattern with ^. This -example matches all mails which only has recipients from Germany. +Note + +Note that patterns matching 'lists' of addresses (notably c, C, p, P and t) +match if there is at least one match in the whole list. If you want to make +sure that all elements of that list match, you need to prefix your pattern with +?^?. This example matches all mails which only has recipients from Germany. ^~C \.de$ 2.2. Simple Patterns -Mutt supports two versions of so called ``simple searches'' which are issued if +Mutt supports two versions of so called ?simple searches? which are issued if the query entered for searching, limiting and similar operations does not seem -to be a valid pattern (i.e. it does not contain one of these characters: ``~'', -``='' or ``%''). If the query is supposed to contain one of these special -characters, they must be escaped by prepending a backslash (``\''). +to be a valid pattern (i.e. it does not contain one of these characters: ???, ? +=? or ?%?). If the query is supposed to contain one of these special +characters, they must be escaped by prepending a backslash (?\?). The first type is by checking whether the query string equals a keyword -case-insensitively from Table 4.2, "Simple search keywords": If that is the +case-insensitively from Table 4.5, ?Simple search keywords?: If that is the case, Mutt will use the shown pattern modifier instead. If a keyword would conflict with your search keyword, you need to turn it into a regular expression to avoid matching the keyword table. For example, if you want to -find all messages matching ``flag'' (using $simple_search, see below but not -meaning flagged messages) simply search for ``[f]lag''. - -Table 4.2. Simple search keywords - -┌───────┬─────────────────┐ -│Keyword│Pattern modifier │ -├───────┼─────────────────┤ -│all │~A │ -├───────┼─────────────────┤ -│. │~A │ -├───────┼─────────────────┤ -│^ │~A │ -├───────┼─────────────────┤ -│del │~D │ -├───────┼─────────────────┤ -│flag │~F │ -├───────┼─────────────────┤ -│new │~N │ -├───────┼─────────────────┤ -│old │~O │ -├───────┼─────────────────┤ -│repl │~Q │ -├───────┼─────────────────┤ -│read │~R │ -├───────┼─────────────────┤ -│tag │~T │ -├───────┼─────────────────┤ -│unread │~U │ -└───────┴─────────────────┘ +find all messages matching ?flag? (using $simple_search) but don't want to +match flagged messages, simply search for ?[f]lag?. + +Table 4.5. Simple search keywords + ++-------------------------+ +|Keyword|Pattern modifier | +|-------+-----------------| +|all |~A | +|-------+-----------------| +|. |~A | +|-------+-----------------| +|^ |~A | +|-------+-----------------| +|del |~D | +|-------+-----------------| +|flag |~F | +|-------+-----------------| +|new |~N | +|-------+-----------------| +|old |~O | +|-------+-----------------| +|repl |~Q | +|-------+-----------------| +|read |~R | +|-------+-----------------| +|tag |~T | +|-------+-----------------| +|unread |~U | ++-------------------------+ The second type of simple search is to build a complex search pattern using @@ -3089,40 +3402,42 @@ Logical AND is performed by specifying more than one criterion. For example: ~t mutt ~f elkins -would select messages which contain the word ``mutt'' in the list of recipients -and that have the word ``elkins'' in the ``From'' header field. +would select messages which contain the word ?mutt? in the list of recipients +and that have the word ?elkins? in the ?From? header field. Mutt also recognizes the following operators to create more complex search patterns: - ● ! -- logical NOT operator + * ! -- logical NOT operator - ● | -- logical OR operator + * | -- logical OR operator - ● () -- logical grouping operator + * () -- logical grouping operator Here is an example illustrating a complex search pattern. This pattern will -select all messages which do not contain ``mutt'' in the ``To'' or ``Cc'' field -and which are from ``elkins''. +select all messages which do not contain ?mutt? in the ?To? or ?Cc? field and +which are from ?elkins?. + +Example 4.1. Using boolean operators in patterns !(~t mutt|~c mutt) ~f elkins + Here is an example using white space in the regular expression (note the ' and -" delimiters). For this to match, the mail's subject must match the ``^Junk -+From +Me$'' and it must be from either ``Jim +Somebody'' or ``Ed -+SomeoneElse'': +" delimiters). For this to match, the mail's subject must match the ?^Junk ++From +Me$? and it must be from either ?Jim +Somebody? or ?Ed +SomeoneElse?: '~s "^Junk +From +Me$" ~f ("Jim +Somebody"|"Ed +SomeoneElse")' -Note that if a regular expression contains parenthesis, or a vertical bar ("| -"), you must enclose the expression in double or single quotes since those -characters are also used to separate different parts of Mutt's pattern -language. For example, +Note +If a regular expression contains parenthesis, or a vertical bar ("|"), you must +enclose the expression in double or single quotes since those characters are +also used to separate different parts of Mutt's pattern language. For example: ~f "me@(mutt\.org|cs\.hmc\.edu)" -Without the quotes, the parenthesis wouldn't end. This would be seperated to -two OR'd patterns: ~f me@(mutt\.org and cs\.hmc\.edu). They are never what you +Without the quotes, the parenthesis wouldn't end. This would be separated to +two OR'd patterns: ?f me@(mutt\.org and cs\.hmc\.edu). They are never what you want. 2.4. Searching by Date @@ -3135,114 +3450,120 @@ is: Limit to messages matching: ~d 20/1/95-31/10 -If you omit the minimum (first) date, and just specify ``-DD/MM/YY'', all +If you omit the minimum (first) date, and just specify ?-DD/MM/YY?, all messages before the given date will be selected. If you omit the maximum -(second) date, and specify ``DD/MM/YY-'', all messages after the given date -will be selected. If you specify a single date with no dash (``-''), only -messages sent on the given date will be selected. +(second) date, and specify ?DD/MM/YY-?, all messages after the given date will +be selected. If you specify a single date with no dash (?-?), only messages +sent on the given date will be selected. Error Margins. You can add error margins to absolute dates. An error margin is -a sign (+ or -), followed by a digit, followed by one of the units in Table -4.3, "Date units". As a special case, you can replace the sign by a ``*'' +a sign (+ or -), followed by a digit, followed by one of the units in +Table 4.6, ?Date units?. As a special case, you can replace the sign by a ?*? character, which is equivalent to giving identical plus and minus error margins. -Table 4.3. Date units +Table 4.6. Date units -┌────┬────────────┐ -│Unit│Description │ -├────┼────────────┤ -│y │Years │ -├────┼────────────┤ -│m │Months │ -├────┼────────────┤ -│w │Weeks │ -├────┼────────────┤ -│d │Days │ -└────┴────────────┘ ++-----------------+ +|Unit|Description | +|----+------------| +|y |Years | +|----+------------| +|m |Months | +|----+------------| +|w |Weeks | +|----+------------| +|d |Days | ++-----------------+ Example: To select any messages two weeks around January 15, 2001, you'd use the following pattern: - Limit to messages matching: ~d 15/1/2001*2w Relative. This type of date is relative to the current date, and may be specified as: - ● >offset (messages older than offset units) + * >offset (messages older than offset units) - ● +function, which is bound to ?shift-T? by default. Or you can select individual +messages by hand using the function, which is bound to ?t? by +default. See patterns for Mutt's pattern matching syntax. + +Once you have tagged the desired messages, you can use the ?tag-prefix? +operator, which is the ?;? (semicolon) key by default. When the ?tag-prefix? +operator is used, the next operation will be applied to all tagged messages if +that operation can be used in that manner. If the $auto_tag variable is set, +the next operation applies to the tagged messages automatically, without +requiring the ?tag-prefix?. + +In macros or push commands, you can use the ?tag-prefix-cond? operator. If there are no tagged messages, mutt will "eat" the rest of the macro to abort it's execution. Mutt will stop "eating" the macro when it encounters the -``end-cond'' operator; after this operator the rest of the macro will be -executed as normal. +?end-cond? operator; after this operator the rest of the macro will be executed +as normal. 4. Using Hooks -A hook is a concept borrowed from the EMACS editor which allows you to execute +A hook is a concept found in many other programs which allows you to execute arbitrary commands before performing some operation. For example, you may wish to tailor your configuration based upon which mailbox you are reading, or to whom you are sending mail. In the Mutt world, a hook consists of a regular expression or pattern along with a configuration option/command. See - ● folder-hook + * folder-hook - ● send-hook + * send-hook - ● message-hook + * message-hook - ● save-hook + * save-hook - ● mbox-hook + * mbox-hook - ● fcc-hook + * fcc-hook - ● fcc-save-hook + * fcc-save-hook for specific details on each type of hook available. -Note: if a hook changes configuration settings, these changes remain effective -until the end of the current mutt session. As this is generally not desired, a +Note + +If a hook changes configuration settings, these changes remain effective until +the end of the current mutt session. As this is generally not desired, a default hook needs to be added before all other hooks to restore configuration defaults. Here is an example with send-hook and the my_hdr directive: +Example 4.2. Combining send-hook and my_hdr + send-hook . 'unmy_hdr From:' send-hook ~C'^b@b\.b$' my_hdr from: c@c.c + 4.1. Message Matching in Hooks Hooks that act upon messages (message-hook, reply-hook, send-hook, send2-hook, @@ -3294,7 +3615,7 @@ blong@fiction.net Brandon Long mutt and more roessler@does-not-exist.org Thomas Roessler mutt pgp There are two mechanisms for accessing the query function of mutt. One is to do -a query from the index menu using the query function (default: Q). This will +a query from the index menu using the function (default: Q). This will prompt for a query, then bring up the query menu which will list the matching responses. From the query menu, you can select addresses to create aliases, or to mail. You can tag multiple addresses to mail, start a new query, or have a @@ -3302,7 +3623,7 @@ new query appended to the current responses. The other mechanism for accessing the query function is for address completion, similar to the alias completion. In any prompt for address entry, you can use -the complete-query function (default: ^T) to run a query based on the current +the function (default: ^T) to run a query based on the current address you have typed. Like aliases, mutt will look for what you have typed back to the last space or comma. If there is a single response for that query, mutt will expand the address in place. If there are multiple responses, mutt @@ -3321,19 +3642,18 @@ stored in a single file. Each message has a line of the form: From me@cs.hmc.edu Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:44:56 PST -to denote the start of a new message (this is often referred to as the -``From_'' line). +to denote the start of a new message (this is often referred to as the ?From_? +line). MMDF. This is a variant of the mbox format. Each message is surrounded by lines -containing ``^A^A^A^A'' (four control-A's). +containing ?^A^A^A^A? (four control-A's). MH. A radical departure from mbox and MMDF, a mailbox consists of a directory and each message is stored in a separate file. The filename indicates the message number (however, this is may not correspond to the message number Mutt displays). Deleted messages are renamed with a comma (,) prepended to the -filename. Note: Mutt detects this type of mailbox by looking for either -.mh_sequences or .xmhcache (needed to distinguish normal directories from MH -mailboxes). +filename. Mutt detects this type of mailbox by looking for either .mh_sequences +or .xmhcache (needed to distinguish normal directories from MH mailboxes). Maildir. The newest of the mailbox formats, used by the Qmail MTA (a replacement for sendmail). Similar to MH, except that it adds three @@ -3347,21 +3667,21 @@ There are a number of built in shortcuts which refer to specific mailboxes. These shortcuts can be used anywhere you are prompted for a file or mailbox path. - ● ! -- refers to your $spoolfile (incoming) mailbox + * ! -- refers to your $spoolfile (incoming) mailbox - ● > -- refers to your $mbox file + * > -- refers to your $mbox file - ● < -- refers to your $record file + * < -- refers to your $record file - ● ^ -- refers to the current mailbox + * ^ -- refers to the current mailbox - ● - or !! -- refers to the file you've last visited + * - or !! -- refers to the file you've last visited - ● ~ -- refers to your home directory + * ? -- refers to your home directory - ● = or + -- refers to your $folder directory + * = or + -- refers to your $folder directory - ● @alias -- refers to the default save folder as determined by the address of + * @alias -- refers to the default save folder as determined by the address of the alias 8. Handling Mailing Lists @@ -3377,26 +3697,26 @@ Now that Mutt knows what your mailing lists are, it can do several things, the first of which is the ability to show the name of a list through which you received a message (i.e., of a subscribed list) in the index menu display. This is useful to distinguish between personal and list mail in the same mailbox. In -the $index_format variable, the escape ``%L'' will return the string ``To -'' when ``list'' appears in the ``To'' field, and ``Cc '' when it -appears in the ``Cc'' field (otherwise it returns the name of the author). - -Often times the ``To'' and ``Cc'' fields in mailing list messages tend to get -quite large. Most people do not bother to remove the author of the message they -are reply to from the list, resulting in two or more copies being sent to that -person. The ``list-reply'' function, which by default is bound to ``L'' in the -index menu and pager, helps reduce the clutter by only replying to the known -mailing list addresses instead of all recipients (except as specified by -Mail-Followup-To, see below). +the $index_format variable, the escape ?%L? will return the string ?To ? +when ?list? appears in the ?To? field, and ?Cc ? when it appears in the +?Cc? field (otherwise it returns the name of the author). + +Often times the ?To? and ?Cc? fields in mailing list messages tend to get quite +large. Most people do not bother to remove the author of the message they reply +to from the list, resulting in two or more copies being sent to that person. +The function, which by default is bound to ?L? in the index menu +and pager, helps reduce the clutter by only replying to the known mailing list +addresses instead of all recipients (except as specified by Mail-Followup-To, +see below). Mutt also supports the Mail-Followup-To header. When you send a message to a list of recipients which includes one or several subscribed mailing lists, and if the $followup_to option is set, mutt will generate a Mail-Followup-To header which contains all the recipients to whom you send this message, but not your address. This indicates that group-replies or list-replies (also known as -``followups'') to this message should only be sent to the original recipients -of the message, and not separately to you - you'll receive your copy through -one of the mailing lists you are subscribed to. +?followups?) to this message should only be sent to the original recipients of +the message, and not separately to you - you'll receive your copy through one +of the mailing lists you are subscribed to. Conversely, when group-replying or list-replying to a message which has a Mail-Followup-To header, mutt will respect this header if the @@ -3404,27 +3724,29 @@ $honor_followup_to configuration variable is set. Using list-reply will in this case also make sure that the reply goes to the mailing list, even if it's not specified in the list of recipients in the Mail-Followup-To. -Note that, when header editing is enabled, you can create a Mail-Followup-To -header manually. Mutt will only auto-generate this header if it doesn't exist -when you send the message. - -The other method some mailing list admins use is to generate a ``Reply-To'' -field which points back to the mailing list address rather than the author of -the message. This can create problems when trying to reply directly to the -author in private, since most mail clients will automatically reply to the -address given in the ``Reply-To'' field. Mutt uses the $reply_to variable to -help decide which address to use. If set to ask-yes or ask-no, you will be -prompted as to whether or not you would like to use the address given in the -``Reply-To'' field, or reply directly to the address given in the ``From'' -field. When set to yes, the ``Reply-To'' field will be used when present. - -The ``X-Label:'' header field can be used to further identify mailing lists or +Note + +When header editing is enabled, you can create a Mail-Followup-To header +manually. Mutt will only auto-generate this header if it doesn't exist when you +send the message. + +The other method some mailing list admins use is to generate a ?Reply-To? field +which points back to the mailing list address rather than the author of the +message. This can create problems when trying to reply directly to the author +in private, since most mail clients will automatically reply to the address +given in the ?Reply-To? field. Mutt uses the $reply_to variable to help decide +which address to use. If set to ask-yes or ask-no, you will be prompted as to +whether or not you would like to use the address given in the ?Reply-To? field, +or reply directly to the address given in the ?From? field. When set to yes, +the ?Reply-To? field will be used when present. + +The ?X-Label:? header field can be used to further identify mailing lists or list subject matter (or just to annotate messages individually). The -$index_format variable's ``%y'' and ``%Y'' escapes can be used to expand -``X-Label:'' fields in the index, and Mutt's pattern-matcher can match regular -expressions to ``X-Label:'' fields with the ``~y'' selector. ``X-Label:'' is -not a standard message header field, but it can easily be inserted by procmail -and other mail filtering agents. +$index_format variable's ?%y? and ?%Y? escapes can be used to expand ?X-Label:? +fields in the index, and Mutt's pattern-matcher can match regular expressions +to ?X-Label:? fields with the ??y? selector. ?X-Label:? is not a standard +message header field, but it can easily be inserted by procmail and other mail +filtering agents. Lastly, Mutt has the ability to sort the mailbox into threads. A thread is a group of messages which all relate to the same subject. This is usually @@ -3434,38 +3756,66 @@ the same concept. It makes dealing with large volume mailing lists easier because you can easily delete uninteresting threads and quickly find topics of value. -9. Editing threads +9. Handling multiple folders + +Mutt supports setups with multiple folders, allowing all of them to be +monitored for new mail (see Section 14, ?Monitoring incoming mail? for +details). + +When in the index menu and being idle (also see $timeout), Mutt periodically +checks for new mail in all folders which have been configured via the mailboxes +command. The interval depends on the folder type: for local/IMAP folders it +consults $mail_check and $pop_checkinterval for POP folders. + +Outside the index menu the directory browser supports checking for new mail +using the function which is unbound by default. Pressing TAB will +bring up a menu showing the files specified by the mailboxes command, and +indicate which contain new messages. Mutt will automatically enter this mode +when invoked from the command line with the -y option. + +For the pager, index and directory browser menus, Mutt contains the + function (bound to ?.? by default) which will print a list of +folders with new mail in the command line at the bottom of the screen. + +For the index, by default Mutt displays the number of mailboxes with new mail +in the status bar, please refer to the $index_format variable for details. + +When changing folders, Mutt fills the prompt with the first folder from the +mailboxes list containing new mail (if any), pressing space will cycle through +folders with new mail. + +10. Editing threads Mutt has the ability to dynamically restructure threads that are broken either by misconfigured software or bad behavior from some correspondents. This allows to clean your mailboxes formats) from these annoyances which make it hard to follow a discussion. -9.1. Linking threads +10.1. Linking threads Some mailers tend to "forget" to correctly set the "In-Reply-To:" and "References:" headers when replying to a message. This results in broken discussions because Mutt has not enough information to guess the correct threading. You can fix this by tagging the reply, then moving to the parent -message and using the ``link-threads'' function (bound to & by default). The +message and using the function (bound to & by default). The reply will then be connected to this "parent" message. You can also connect multiple children at once, tagging them and using the tag-prefix command (';') or the auto_tag option. -9.2. Breaking threads +10.2. Breaking threads On mailing lists, some people are in the bad habit of starting a new discussion by hitting "reply" to any message from the list and changing the subject to a -totally unrelated one. You can fix such threads by using the ``break-thread'' +totally unrelated one. You can fix such threads by using the function (bound by default to #), which will turn the subthread starting from the current message into a whole different thread. -10. Delivery Status Notification (DSN) Support +11. Delivery Status Notification (DSN) Support RFC1894 defines a set of MIME content types for relaying information about the -status of electronic mail messages. These can be thought of as ``return -receipts.'' +status of electronic mail messages. These can be thought of as ?return +receipts.? To support DSN, there are two variables. $dsn_notify is used to request receipts for different results (such as failed message, message delivered, @@ -3481,10 +3831,9 @@ consider your MTA documentation whether DSN is supported. For SMTP delivery using $smtp_url, it depends on the capabilities announced by the server whether mutt will attempt to request DSN or not. -11. Start a WWW Browser on URLs (EXTERNAL) +12. Start a WWW Browser on URLs -If a message contains URLs (unified resource locator = address in the WWW space -like http://www.mutt.org/), it is efficient to get a menu with all the URLs and +If a message contains URLs, it is efficient to get a menu with all the URLs and start a WWW browser on one of them. This functionality is provided by the external urlview program which can be retrieved at ftp://ftp.mutt.org/mutt/ contrib/ and the configuration commands: @@ -3556,13 +3905,14 @@ The default binding for view-attachments is `v', which displays the attachment menu for a message. The attachment menu displays a list of the attachments in a message. From the attachment menu, you can save, print, pipe, delete, and view attachments. You can apply these operations to a group of attachments at once, -by tagging the attachments and by using the ``tag-prefix'' operator. You can -also reply to the current message from this menu, and only the current -attachment (or the attachments tagged) will be quoted in your reply. You can -view attachments as text, or view them using the mailcap viewer definition. +by tagging the attachments and by using the ?tag-prefix? operator. You can also +reply to the current message from this menu, and only the current attachment +(or the attachments tagged) will be quoted in your reply. You can view +attachments as text, or view them using the mailcap viewer definition. -Finally, you can apply the usual message-related functions (like resend-message -, and the reply and forward functions) to attachments of type message/rfc822. +Finally, you can apply the usual message-related functions (like +, and the and functions) to attachments of +type message/rfc822. See the help on the attachment menu for more information. @@ -3702,10 +4052,13 @@ Perhaps you would like to use lynx to interactively view a text/html message: text/html; lynx %s In this case, lynx does not support viewing a file from stdin, so you must use -the %s syntax. Note:Some older versions of lynx contain a bug where they will -check the mailcap file for a viewer for text/html. They will find the line -which calls lynx, and run it. This causes lynx to continuously spawn itself to -view the object. +the %s syntax. + +Note + +Some older versions of lynx contain a bug where they will check the mailcap +file for a viewer for text/html. They will find the line which calls lynx, and +run it. This causes lynx to continuously spawn itself to view the object. On the other hand, maybe you don't want to use lynx interactively, you just want to have it convert the text/html to text/plain, then you can use: @@ -3819,8 +4172,8 @@ test= should be used. The command is defined with the command expansion rules defined in the next section. If the command returns 0, then the test passed, and Mutt uses this entry. If the command returns non-zero, then the - test failed, and Mutt continues searching for the right entry. Note:the - content-type must match before Mutt performs the test. For example: + test failed, and Mutt continues searching for the right entry. Note that + the content-type must match before Mutt performs the test. For example: text/html; netscape -remote 'openURL(%s)' ; test=RunningX text/html; lynx %s @@ -3980,9 +4333,9 @@ application/x-gunzip; gzcat; copiousoutput application/x-tar-gz; gunzip -c %s | tar -tf - ; copiousoutput application/postscript; ps2ascii %s; copiousoutput -``unauto_view'' can be used to remove previous entries from the autoview list. +?unauto_view? can be used to remove previous entries from the autoview list. This can be used with message-hook to autoview messages based on size, etc. -``unauto_view *'' will remove all previous entries. +?unauto_view *? will remove all previous entries. 5. MIME Multipart/Alternative @@ -4021,20 +4374,20 @@ attachments {+|-}disposition mime-type unattachments {+|-}disposition mime-type attachments ? -Disposition is the attachment's Content-disposition type -- either "inline" or -"attachment". You can abbreviate this to I or A. +Disposition is the attachment's Content-disposition type -- either inline or +attachment. You can abbreviate this to I or A. -Disposition is prefixed by either a + symbolor a - symbol. If it's a +, you're +Disposition is prefixed by either a + symbol or a - symbol. If it's a +, you're saying that you want to allow this disposition and MIME type to qualify. If it's a -, you're saying that this disposition and MIME type is an exception to previous + rules. There are examples below of how this is useful. Mime-type is, unsurprisingly, the MIME type of the attachment you want to -affect. A MIME type is always of the format "major/minor", where "major" -describes the broad category of document you're looking at, and "minor" -describes the specific type within that category. The major part of mim-type -must be literal text (or the special token "*"), but the minor part may be a -regular expression. (Therefore, "*/.*" matches any MIME type.) +affect. A MIME type is always of the format major/minor, where major describes +the broad category of document you're looking at, and minor describes the +specific type within that category. The major part of mime-type must be literal +text (or the special token ?*?), but the minor part may be a regular +expression. (Therefore, ?*/.*? matches any MIME type.) The MIME types you give to the attachments directive are a kind of pattern. When you use the attachments directive, the patterns you specify are added to a @@ -4046,6 +4399,8 @@ message. Some examples might help to illustrate. The examples that are not commented out define the default configuration of the lists. +Example 5.1. Attachment counting + ## Removing a pattern from a list removes that pattern literally. It ## does not remove any type matching the pattern. ## @@ -4093,8 +4448,9 @@ attachments +I text/plain attachments -A message/external-body attachments -I message/external-body -"attachments ?" will list your current settings in Muttrc format, so that it -can be pasted elsewhere. + +Entering the command ?attachments ?? as a command will list your current +settings in Muttrc format, so that it can be pasted elsewhere. 7. MIME Lookup @@ -4144,12 +4500,12 @@ Table of Contents Mutt supports several of optional features which can be enabled or disabled at compile-time by giving the configure script certain arguments. These are listed -in the ``Optional features'' section of the configure --help output. +in the ?Optional features? section of the configure --help output. Which features are enabled or disabled can later be determined from the output -of mutt -v. If a compile option starts with ``+'' it is enabled and disabled if -prefixed with ``-''. For example, if mutt was compiled using GnuTLS for -encrypted communication instead of OpenSSL, mutt -v would contain: +of mutt -v. If a compile option starts with ?+? it is enabled and disabled if +prefixed with ?-?. For example, if mutt was compiled using GnuTLS for encrypted +communication instead of OpenSSL, mutt -v would contain: -USE_SSL_OPENSSL +USE_SSL_GNUTLS @@ -4162,14 +4518,15 @@ access servers using URLs. The canonical syntax for specifying URLs in mutt is proto[s]://[username[:password]@]server[:port]/[path] proto is the communication protocol: imap for IMAP, pop for POP3 and smtp for -SMTP. If ``s'' for ``secure communication'' is appended, mutt will attempt to +SMTP. If ?s? for ?secure communication? is appended, mutt will attempt to establish an encrypted communication using SSL or TLS. If no explicit port is given, mutt will use the system's default for the given protocol. Since all protocols by mutt support authentication, the username may be given -directly in the URL instead of using the pop_user or imap_user variables. A -password can be given, too but is not recommended if the URL is specified in a -configuration file on disk. +directly in the URL instead of using the pop_user or imap_user variables. It +may contain the ?@? symbol being used by many mail systems as part of the login +name. A password can be given, too but is not recommended if the URL is +specified in a configuration file on disk. The optional path is only relevant for IMAP. @@ -4177,8 +4534,8 @@ For IMAP for example, you can select an alternative port by specifying it with the server: imap://imapserver:port/INBOX. You can also specify different username for each folder: imap://username@imapserver[:port]/INBOX or imap:// username2@imapserver[:port]/path/to/folder. Replacing imap:// by imaps:// would -make mutt attempt to conect using SSL or TLS on a different port to encrypt the -communication. +make mutt attempt to connect using SSL or TLS on a different port to encrypt +the communication. 2. SSL/TLS Support @@ -4186,8 +4543,8 @@ If mutt is compiled with IMAP, POP3 and/or SMTP support, it can also be compiled with support for SSL or TLS using either OpenSSL or GnuTLS ( by running the configure script with the --enable-ssl=... option for OpenSSL or --enable-gnutls=... for GnuTLS). Mutt can then attempt to encrypt communication -with remote servers if these protocols are suffixed with ``s'' for ``secure -communication''. +with remote servers if these protocols are suffixed with ?s? for ?secure +communication?. 3. POP3 Support @@ -4196,20 +4553,22 @@ the --enable-pop flag), it has the ability to work with mailboxes located on a remote POP3 server and fetch mail for local browsing. Remote POP3 servers can be accessed using URLs with the pop protocol for -unencrypted and pops for encrypted communication, see Section 1.2, "URL syntax" +unencrypted and pops for encrypted communication, see Section 1.2, ?URL syntax? for details. Polling for new mail is more expensive over POP3 than locally. For this reason the frequency at which Mutt will check for mail remotely can be controlled by the $pop_checkinterval variable, which defaults to every 60 seconds. -Another way to access your POP3 mail is the fetch-mail function (default: G). +Another way to access your POP3 mail is the '' address syntax for reading and writing -messages, the older ``user@host (Name)'' syntax is only supported when reading +Mutt supports the ?Name ? address syntax for reading and writing +messages, the older ?user@host (Name)? syntax is only supported when reading messages. The --enable-exact-address switch can be given to configure to build it with write-support for the latter syntax. EXACT_ADDRESS in the output of mutt -v indicates whether it's supported. @@ -4463,17 +4828,17 @@ mutt's so-called body caching for details. When searching mailboxes either via a search or a limit action, for some patterns mutt distinguishes between regular expression and string searches. For -regular expressions, patterns are prefixed with ``~'' and with ``='' for string +regular expressions, patterns are prefixed with ??? and with ?=? for string searches. Even though a regular expression search is fast, it's several times slower than -a pure string search which is noticable especially on large folders. As a +a pure string search which is noticeable especially on large folders. As a consequence, a string search should be used instead of a regular expression search if the user already knows enough about the search pattern. For example, when limiting a large folder to all messages sent to or by an author, it's much faster to search for the initial part of an e-mail address -via =Luser@ instead of ~Luser@. This is especially true for searching message +via =Luser@ instead of ?Luser@. This is especially true for searching message bodies since a larger amount of input has to be searched. Please note that string search is an exact case-sensitive search while a @@ -4581,234 +4946,235 @@ Table of Contents 3.91. imap_pass 3.92. imap_passive 3.93. imap_peek - 3.94. imap_servernoise - 3.95. imap_user - 3.96. implicit_autoview - 3.97. include - 3.98. include_onlyfirst - 3.99. indent_string - 3.100. index_format - 3.101. ispell - 3.102. keep_flagged - 3.103. locale - 3.104. mail_check - 3.105. mailcap_path - 3.106. mailcap_sanitize - 3.107. header_cache - 3.108. maildir_header_cache_verify - 3.109. header_cache_pagesize - 3.110. header_cache_compress - 3.111. maildir_trash - 3.112. mark_old - 3.113. markers - 3.114. mask - 3.115. mbox - 3.116. mbox_type - 3.117. metoo - 3.118. menu_context - 3.119. menu_move_off - 3.120. menu_scroll - 3.121. meta_key - 3.122. mh_purge - 3.123. mh_seq_flagged - 3.124. mh_seq_replied - 3.125. mh_seq_unseen - 3.126. mime_forward - 3.127. mime_forward_decode - 3.128. mime_forward_rest - 3.129. mix_entry_format - 3.130. mixmaster - 3.131. move - 3.132. message_cachedir - 3.133. message_cache_clean - 3.134. message_format - 3.135. narrow_tree - 3.136. net_inc - 3.137. pager - 3.138. pager_context - 3.139. pager_format - 3.140. pager_index_lines - 3.141. pager_stop - 3.142. crypt_autosign - 3.143. crypt_autoencrypt - 3.144. pgp_ignore_subkeys - 3.145. crypt_replyencrypt - 3.146. crypt_replysign - 3.147. crypt_replysignencrypted - 3.148. crypt_timestamp - 3.149. pgp_use_gpg_agent - 3.150. crypt_verify_sig - 3.151. smime_is_default - 3.152. smime_ask_cert_label - 3.153. smime_decrypt_use_default_key - 3.154. pgp_entry_format - 3.155. pgp_good_sign - 3.156. pgp_check_exit - 3.157. pgp_long_ids - 3.158. pgp_retainable_sigs - 3.159. pgp_autoinline - 3.160. pgp_replyinline - 3.161. pgp_show_unusable - 3.162. pgp_sign_as - 3.163. pgp_strict_enc - 3.164. pgp_timeout - 3.165. pgp_sort_keys - 3.166. pgp_mime_auto - 3.167. pgp_auto_decode - 3.168. pgp_decode_command - 3.169. pgp_getkeys_command - 3.170. pgp_verify_command - 3.171. pgp_decrypt_command - 3.172. pgp_clearsign_command - 3.173. pgp_sign_command - 3.174. pgp_encrypt_sign_command - 3.175. pgp_encrypt_only_command - 3.176. pgp_import_command - 3.177. pgp_export_command - 3.178. pgp_verify_key_command - 3.179. pgp_list_secring_command - 3.180. pgp_list_pubring_command - 3.181. forward_decrypt - 3.182. smime_timeout - 3.183. smime_encrypt_with - 3.184. smime_keys - 3.185. smime_ca_location - 3.186. smime_certificates - 3.187. smime_decrypt_command - 3.188. smime_verify_command - 3.189. smime_verify_opaque_command - 3.190. smime_sign_command - 3.191. smime_sign_opaque_command - 3.192. smime_encrypt_command - 3.193. smime_pk7out_command - 3.194. smime_get_cert_command - 3.195. smime_get_signer_cert_command - 3.196. smime_import_cert_command - 3.197. smime_get_cert_email_command - 3.198. smime_default_key - 3.199. ssl_client_cert - 3.200. ssl_force_tls - 3.201. ssl_starttls - 3.202. certificate_file - 3.203. ssl_usesystemcerts - 3.204. entropy_file - 3.205. ssl_use_sslv2 - 3.206. ssl_use_sslv3 - 3.207. ssl_use_tlsv1 - 3.208. ssl_min_dh_prime_bits - 3.209. ssl_ca_certificates_file - 3.210. pipe_split - 3.211. pipe_decode - 3.212. pipe_sep - 3.213. pop_authenticators - 3.214. pop_auth_try_all - 3.215. pop_checkinterval - 3.216. pop_delete - 3.217. pop_host - 3.218. pop_last - 3.219. pop_reconnect - 3.220. pop_user - 3.221. pop_pass - 3.222. post_indent_string - 3.223. postpone - 3.224. postponed - 3.225. preconnect - 3.226. print - 3.227. print_command - 3.228. print_decode - 3.229. print_split - 3.230. prompt_after - 3.231. query_command - 3.232. query_format - 3.233. quit - 3.234. quote_regexp - 3.235. read_inc - 3.236. read_only - 3.237. realname - 3.238. recall - 3.239. record - 3.240. reply_regexp - 3.241. reply_self - 3.242. reply_to - 3.243. resolve - 3.244. reverse_alias - 3.245. reverse_name - 3.246. reverse_realname - 3.247. rfc2047_parameters - 3.248. save_address - 3.249. save_empty - 3.250. save_history - 3.251. save_name - 3.252. score - 3.253. score_threshold_delete - 3.254. score_threshold_flag - 3.255. score_threshold_read - 3.256. send_charset - 3.257. sendmail - 3.258. sendmail_wait - 3.259. shell - 3.260. sig_dashes - 3.261. sig_on_top - 3.262. signature - 3.263. simple_search - 3.264. smart_wrap - 3.265. smileys - 3.266. sleep_time - 3.267. smtp_authenticators - 3.268. smtp_pass - 3.269. smtp_url - 3.270. sort - 3.271. sort_alias - 3.272. sort_aux - 3.273. sort_browser - 3.274. sort_re - 3.275. spam_separator - 3.276. spoolfile - 3.277. status_chars - 3.278. status_format - 3.279. status_on_top - 3.280. strict_threads - 3.281. suspend - 3.282. text_flowed - 3.283. thread_received - 3.284. thorough_search - 3.285. tilde - 3.286. time_inc - 3.287. timeout - 3.288. tmpdir - 3.289. to_chars - 3.290. tunnel - 3.291. use_8bitmime - 3.292. use_domain - 3.293. use_envelope_from - 3.294. use_from - 3.295. use_idn - 3.296. use_ipv6 - 3.297. user_agent - 3.298. visual - 3.299. wait_key - 3.300. weed - 3.301. wrap - 3.302. wrap_search - 3.303. wrapmargin - 3.304. write_inc - 3.305. write_bcc + 3.94. imap_pipeline_depth + 3.95. imap_servernoise + 3.96. imap_user + 3.97. implicit_autoview + 3.98. include + 3.99. include_onlyfirst + 3.100. indent_string + 3.101. index_format + 3.102. ispell + 3.103. keep_flagged + 3.104. locale + 3.105. mail_check + 3.106. mailcap_path + 3.107. mailcap_sanitize + 3.108. header_cache + 3.109. maildir_header_cache_verify + 3.110. header_cache_pagesize + 3.111. header_cache_compress + 3.112. maildir_trash + 3.113. mark_old + 3.114. markers + 3.115. mask + 3.116. mbox + 3.117. mbox_type + 3.118. metoo + 3.119. menu_context + 3.120. menu_move_off + 3.121. menu_scroll + 3.122. meta_key + 3.123. mh_purge + 3.124. mh_seq_flagged + 3.125. mh_seq_replied + 3.126. mh_seq_unseen + 3.127. mime_forward + 3.128. mime_forward_decode + 3.129. mime_forward_rest + 3.130. mix_entry_format + 3.131. mixmaster + 3.132. move + 3.133. message_cachedir + 3.134. message_cache_clean + 3.135. message_format + 3.136. narrow_tree + 3.137. net_inc + 3.138. pager + 3.139. pager_context + 3.140. pager_format + 3.141. pager_index_lines + 3.142. pager_stop + 3.143. crypt_autosign + 3.144. crypt_autoencrypt + 3.145. pgp_ignore_subkeys + 3.146. crypt_replyencrypt + 3.147. crypt_replysign + 3.148. crypt_replysignencrypted + 3.149. crypt_timestamp + 3.150. pgp_use_gpg_agent + 3.151. crypt_verify_sig + 3.152. smime_is_default + 3.153. smime_ask_cert_label + 3.154. smime_decrypt_use_default_key + 3.155. pgp_entry_format + 3.156. pgp_good_sign + 3.157. pgp_check_exit + 3.158. pgp_long_ids + 3.159. pgp_retainable_sigs + 3.160. pgp_autoinline + 3.161. pgp_replyinline + 3.162. pgp_show_unusable + 3.163. pgp_sign_as + 3.164. pgp_strict_enc + 3.165. pgp_timeout + 3.166. pgp_sort_keys + 3.167. pgp_mime_auto + 3.168. pgp_auto_decode + 3.169. pgp_decode_command + 3.170. pgp_getkeys_command + 3.171. pgp_verify_command + 3.172. pgp_decrypt_command + 3.173. pgp_clearsign_command + 3.174. pgp_sign_command + 3.175. pgp_encrypt_sign_command + 3.176. pgp_encrypt_only_command + 3.177. pgp_import_command + 3.178. pgp_export_command + 3.179. pgp_verify_key_command + 3.180. pgp_list_secring_command + 3.181. pgp_list_pubring_command + 3.182. forward_decrypt + 3.183. smime_timeout + 3.184. smime_encrypt_with + 3.185. smime_keys + 3.186. smime_ca_location + 3.187. smime_certificates + 3.188. smime_decrypt_command + 3.189. smime_verify_command + 3.190. smime_verify_opaque_command + 3.191. smime_sign_command + 3.192. smime_sign_opaque_command + 3.193. smime_encrypt_command + 3.194. smime_pk7out_command + 3.195. smime_get_cert_command + 3.196. smime_get_signer_cert_command + 3.197. smime_import_cert_command + 3.198. smime_get_cert_email_command + 3.199. smime_default_key + 3.200. ssl_client_cert + 3.201. ssl_force_tls + 3.202. ssl_starttls + 3.203. certificate_file + 3.204. ssl_usesystemcerts + 3.205. entropy_file + 3.206. ssl_use_sslv2 + 3.207. ssl_use_sslv3 + 3.208. ssl_use_tlsv1 + 3.209. ssl_min_dh_prime_bits + 3.210. ssl_ca_certificates_file + 3.211. pipe_split + 3.212. pipe_decode + 3.213. pipe_sep + 3.214. pop_authenticators + 3.215. pop_auth_try_all + 3.216. pop_checkinterval + 3.217. pop_delete + 3.218. pop_host + 3.219. pop_last + 3.220. pop_reconnect + 3.221. pop_user + 3.222. pop_pass + 3.223. post_indent_string + 3.224. postpone + 3.225. postponed + 3.226. preconnect + 3.227. print + 3.228. print_command + 3.229. print_decode + 3.230. print_split + 3.231. prompt_after + 3.232. query_command + 3.233. query_format + 3.234. quit + 3.235. quote_regexp + 3.236. read_inc + 3.237. read_only + 3.238. realname + 3.239. recall + 3.240. record + 3.241. reply_regexp + 3.242. reply_self + 3.243. reply_to + 3.244. resolve + 3.245. reverse_alias + 3.246. reverse_name + 3.247. reverse_realname + 3.248. rfc2047_parameters + 3.249. save_address + 3.250. save_empty + 3.251. save_history + 3.252. save_name + 3.253. score + 3.254. score_threshold_delete + 3.255. score_threshold_flag + 3.256. score_threshold_read + 3.257. send_charset + 3.258. sendmail + 3.259. sendmail_wait + 3.260. shell + 3.261. sig_dashes + 3.262. sig_on_top + 3.263. signature + 3.264. simple_search + 3.265. smart_wrap + 3.266. smileys + 3.267. sleep_time + 3.268. smtp_authenticators + 3.269. smtp_pass + 3.270. smtp_url + 3.271. sort + 3.272. sort_alias + 3.273. sort_aux + 3.274. sort_browser + 3.275. sort_re + 3.276. spam_separator + 3.277. spoolfile + 3.278. status_chars + 3.279. status_format + 3.280. status_on_top + 3.281. strict_threads + 3.282. suspend + 3.283. text_flowed + 3.284. thread_received + 3.285. thorough_search + 3.286. tilde + 3.287. time_inc + 3.288. timeout + 3.289. tmpdir + 3.290. to_chars + 3.291. tunnel + 3.292. use_8bitmime + 3.293. use_domain + 3.294. use_envelope_from + 3.295. use_from + 3.296. use_idn + 3.297. use_ipv6 + 3.298. user_agent + 3.299. visual + 3.300. wait_key + 3.301. weed + 3.302. wrap + 3.303. wrap_search + 3.304. wrapmargin + 3.305. write_inc + 3.306. write_bcc 4. Functions - 4.1. generic - 4.2. index - 4.3. pager - 4.4. alias - 4.5. query - 4.6. attach - 4.7. compose - 4.8. postpone - 4.9. browser - 4.10. pgp - 4.11. smime - 4.12. mix - 4.13. editor + 4.1. generic menu + 4.2. index menu + 4.3. pager menu + 4.4. alias menu + 4.5. query menu + 4.6. attach menu + 4.7. compose menu + 4.8. postpone menu + 4.9. browser menu + 4.10. pgp menu + 4.11. smime menu + 4.12. mix menu + 4.13. editor menu 1. Command line options @@ -4818,184 +5184,198 @@ from the command line as well. Table 8.1. Command line options -┌──────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ -│Option│ Description │ -├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│-A │expand an alias │ -├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│-a │attach a file to a message │ -├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│-b │specify a blind carbon-copy (BCC) address │ -├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│-c │specify a carbon-copy (Cc) address │ -├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│-D │print the value of all mutt variables to stdout │ -├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│-e │specify a config command to be run after initialization files are read│ -├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│-f │specify a mailbox to load │ -├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│-F │specify an alternate file to read initialization commands │ -├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│-h │print help on command line options │ -├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│-H │specify a draft file from which to read a header and body │ -├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│-i │specify a file to include in a message composition │ -├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│-m │specify a default mailbox type │ -├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│-n │do not read the system Muttrc │ -├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│-p │recall a postponed message │ -├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│-Q │query a configuration variable │ -├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│-R │open mailbox in read-only mode │ -├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│-s │specify a subject (enclose in quotes if it contains spaces) │ -├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│-v │show version number and compile-time definitions │ -├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│-x │simulate the mailx(1) compose mode │ -├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│-y │show a menu containing the files specified by the mailboxes command │ -├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│-z │exit immediately if there are no messages in the mailbox │ -├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│-Z │open the first folder with new message,exit immediately if none │ -└──────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +|Option| Description | +|------+----------------------------------------------------------------------| +|-A |expand an alias | +|------+----------------------------------------------------------------------| +|-a |attach a file to a message | +|------+----------------------------------------------------------------------| +|-b |specify a blind carbon-copy (BCC) address | +|------+----------------------------------------------------------------------| +|-c |specify a carbon-copy (Cc) address | +|------+----------------------------------------------------------------------| +|-D |print the value of all mutt variables to stdout | +|------+----------------------------------------------------------------------| +|-e |specify a config command to be run after initialization files are read| +|------+----------------------------------------------------------------------| +|-f |specify a mailbox to load | +|------+----------------------------------------------------------------------| +|-F |specify an alternate file to read initialization commands | +|------+----------------------------------------------------------------------| +|-h |print help on command line options | +|------+----------------------------------------------------------------------| +|-H |specify a draft file from which to read a header and body | +|------+----------------------------------------------------------------------| +|-i |specify a file to include in a message composition | +|------+----------------------------------------------------------------------| +|-m |specify a default mailbox type | +|------+----------------------------------------------------------------------| +|-n |do not read the system Muttrc | +|------+----------------------------------------------------------------------| +|-p |recall a postponed message | +|------+----------------------------------------------------------------------| +|-Q |query a configuration variable | +|------+----------------------------------------------------------------------| +|-R |open mailbox in read-only mode | +|------+----------------------------------------------------------------------| +|-s |specify a subject (enclose in quotes if it contains spaces) | +|------+----------------------------------------------------------------------| +|-v |show version number and compile-time definitions | +|------+----------------------------------------------------------------------| +|-x |simulate the mailx(1) compose mode | +|------+----------------------------------------------------------------------| +|-y |show a menu containing the files specified by the mailboxes command | +|------+----------------------------------------------------------------------| +|-z |exit immediately if there are no messages in the mailbox | +|------+----------------------------------------------------------------------| +|-Z |open the first folder with new message,exit immediately if none | ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To read messages in a mailbox -mutt [ -nz ] [ -F muttrc ] [ -m type ] [ -f mailbox ] +mutt [-nz] [-F muttrc ] [-m type ] [-f mailbox ] To compose a new message -mutt [ -n ] [ -F muttrc ] [ -a file ] [ -c address ] [ -i filename ] [ -s -subject ] [ [ file ... ] -- ] address [ address ... ] +mutt [-n] [-F muttrc ] [-a file ] [-c address ] [-i filename ] [-s subject ] [ +[ file ...] -- ] address [ address ...] -Mutt also supports a ``batch'' mode to send prepared messages. Simply redirect +Mutt also supports a ?batch? mode to send prepared messages. Simply redirect input from the file you wish to send. For example, -mutt -s "data set for run #2" professor@bigschool.edu < ~/run2.dat +mutt -s "data set for run #2" professor@bigschool.edu < ?/run2.dat -This command will send a message to ``professor@bigschool.edu'' with a subject -of ``data set for run #2''. In the body of the message will be the contents of -the file ``~/run2.dat''. +This command will send a message to ?professor@bigschool.edu? with a subject of +?data set for run #2?. In the body of the message will be the contents of the +file ??/run2.dat?. All files passed with -a file will be attached as a MIME part to the message. -To attach several files, use ``--'' to separate files and recipient addresses: +To attach several files, use ?--? to separate files and recipient addresses: mutt -a *.png -- some@one.org 2. Configuration Commands The following are the commands understood by mutt. - ● account-hookpatterncommand + * account-hook pattern command + + * alias [ -group name ...] key address [ address ...] + + * unalias [ -group name ...] { * | key ... } - ● alias [ -groupname [ ... ] ] keyaddress [ , address, ... ] + * alternates [ -group name ...] regexp [ regexp ...] - ● unalias [ * | key ... ] + * unalternates [ -group name ...] { * | regexp ... } - ● alternates [ -groupname [ ... ] ] regexp [ regexp ... ] + * alternative-order mimetype [ mimetype ...] - ● unalternates [ * | regexp ... ] + * unalternative-order { * | mimetype ... } - ● alternative-ordermimetype [ mimetype ... ] + * auto-view mimetype [ mimetype ...] - ● unalternative-ordermimetype [ mimetype ... ] + * unauto-view { * | mimetype ... } - ● auto_viewmimetype [ mimetype ... ] + * bind map key function - ● unauto_viewmimetype [ mimetype ... ] + * charset-hook alias charset - ● bindmapkeyfunction + * iconv-hook charset local-charset - ● charset-hookaliascharset + * color object foreground background - ● iconv-hookcharsetlocal-charset + color { header | body } foreground background regexp - ● colorobjectforegroundbackground [ regexp ] + color index foreground background pattern - ● uncolorindexpattern [ pattern ... ] + * uncolor index pattern ... - ● execfunction [ function ... ] + * exec function [ function ...] - ● fcc-hookpatternmailbox + * fcc-hook [!]pattern mailbox - ● fcc-save-hookpatternmailbox + * fcc-save-hook [!]pattern mailbox - ● folder-hookpatterncommand + * folder-hook [!]regexp command - ● hdr_orderheader [ header ... ] + * group [ -group name ...] { -rx expr ... | -addr expr ... } - ● unhdr_orderheader [ header ... ] + * ungroup [ -group name ...] { * | -rx expr ... | -addr expr ... } - ● ignorepattern [ pattern ... ] + * hdr_order header [ header ...] - ● unignorepattern [ pattern ... ] + * unhdr_order { * | header ... } - ● lists [ -groupname [ ... ] ] regexp [ regexp ... ] + * ignore pattern [ pattern ...] - ● unlistsregexp [ regexp ... ] + * unignore { * | pattern ... } - ● macromenukeysequence [ description ] + * lists [ -group name ] regexp [ regexp ...] - ● mailboxesfilename [ filename ... ] + * unlists [ -group name ...] { * | regexp ... } - ● mbox-hookpatternmailbox + * macro menu key sequence [ description ] - ● message-hookpatterncommand + * mailboxes mailbox [ mailbox ...] - ● mime_lookupmimetype [ mimetype ... ] + * unmailboxes { * | mailbox ... } - ● unmime_lookupmimetype [ mimetype ... ] + * mbox-hook [!]pattern mailbox - ● monoobject attribute [ regexp ] + * message-hook [!]pattern command - ● unmonoindexpattern [ pattern ... ] + * mime-lookup mimetype [ mimetype ...] - ● my_hdrstring + * unmime-lookup { * | mimetype ... } - ● unmy_hdrfield [ field ... ] + * mono object attribute - ● crypt-hookpatternkey-id + mono { header | body } attribute regexp - ● pushstring + mono index attribute pattern - ● resetvariable [variable ... ] + * unmono index { * | pattern ... } - ● save-hookregexpfilename + * my_hdr string - ● scorepatternvalue + * unmy_hdr { * | field ... } - ● unscorepattern [ pattern ... ] + * crypt-hook pattern keyid - ● reply-hookpatterncommand + * push string - ● send-hookpatterncommand + * reset variable [ variable ...] - ● send2-hookpatterncommand + * save-hook [!]pattern mailbox - ● set [no|inv]variable[=value] [ variable ... ] + * score pattern value - ● unsetvariable [variable ... ] + * unscore { * | pattern ... } - ● sourcefilename + * reply-hook [!]pattern command - ● spampatternformat + * send-hook [!]pattern command - ● nospampattern + * send2-hook [!]pattern command - ● subscribe [ -groupname [ ... ] ] regexp [ regexp ... ] + * set { [ no | inv ] variable | variable=value } [...] - ● unsubscriberegexp [ regexp ... ] + * unset variable [ variable ...] - ● togglevariable [variable ... ] + * source filename - ● unhookhook-type + * spam pattern format + + * nospam { * | pattern } + + * subscribe [ -group name ...] regexp [ regexp ...] + + * unsubscribe [ -group name ...] { * | regexp ... } + + * toggle variable [ variable ...] + + * unhook { * | hook-type } 3. Configuration variables @@ -5020,23 +5400,25 @@ first edit of the file). When set to no, composition will never be aborted. 3.3. alias_file Type: path -Default: "~/.muttrc" +Default: ??/.muttrc? -The default file in which to save aliases created by the ``create-alias'' -function. +The default file in which to save aliases created by the +function. Entries added to this file are encoded in the character set specified +by $config_charset if it is set or the current character set otherwise. Note: Mutt will not automatically source this file; you must explicitly use the -``source'' command for it to be executed. +?source? command for it to be executed in case this option points to a +dedicated alias file. -The default for this option is the currently used muttrc file, or ``~/.muttrc'' +The default for this option is the currently used muttrc file, or ??/.muttrc? if no user muttrc was found. 3.4. alias_format Type: string -Default: "%4n %2f %t %-10a %r" +Default: ?%4n %2f %t %-10a %r? -Specifies the format of the data displayed for the `alias' menu. The following +Specifies the format of the data displayed for the ?alias? menu. The following printf(3)-style sequences are available: %a @@ -5045,7 +5427,7 @@ printf(3)-style sequences are available: %f - flags - currently, a "d" for an alias marked for deletion + flags - currently, a ?d? for an alias marked for deletion %n @@ -5076,15 +5458,20 @@ Controls whether ANSI color codes in messages (and color tags in rich text messages) are to be interpreted. Messages containing these codes are rare, but if this option is set, their text will be colored accordingly. Note that this may override your color choices, and even present a security problem, since a -message could include a line like "[-- PGP output follows ..." and give it the -same color as your attachment color. +message could include a line like + +[-- PGP output follows ... + + +and give it the same color as your attachment color (see also $crypt_timestamp +). 3.7. arrow_cursor Type: boolean Default: no -When set, an arrow (``->'') will be used to indicate the current entry in menus +When set, an arrow (?->?) will be used to indicate the current entry in menus instead of highlighting the whole line. On slow network or modem links this will make response faster because there is less that has to be redrawn on the screen when moving to the next or previous entries in the menu. @@ -5116,41 +5503,43 @@ body of an outgoing message. 3.11. assumed_charset Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This variable is a colon-separated list of character encoding schemes for messages without character encoding indication. Header field values and message body content without character encoding indication would be assumed that they are written in one of this list. By default, all the header fields and message -body without any charset indication are assumed to be in "us-ascii". +body without any charset indication are assumed to be in ?us-ascii?. For example, Japanese users might prefer this: set assumed_charset="iso-2022-jp:euc-jp:shift_jis:utf-8" + However, only the first content is valid for the message body. 3.12. attach_charset Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This variable is a colon-separated list of character encoding schemes for text -file attachments. If unset, $charset value will be used instead. For example, -the following configuration would work for Japanese text handling: +file attachments. If unset, the value of $charset will be used instead. For +example, the following configuration would work for Japanese text handling: set attach_charset="iso-2022-jp:euc-jp:shift_jis:utf-8" -Note: "iso-2022-*" must be put at the head of the value as shown above if -included. + +Note: for Japanese users, ?iso-2022-*? must be put at the head of the value as +shown above if included. 3.13. attach_format Type: string -Default: "%u%D%I %t%4n %T%.40d%> [%.7m/%.10M, %.6e%?C?, %C?, %s] " +Default: ?%u%D%I %t%4n %T%.40d%> [%.7m/%.10M, %.6e%?C?, %C?, %s] ? -This variable describes the format of the `attachment' menu. The following -printf-style sequences are understood: +This variable describes the format of the ?attachment? menu. The following +printf(3)-style sequences are understood: %C @@ -5158,7 +5547,7 @@ printf-style sequences are understood: %c - requires charset conversion (n or c) + requires charset conversion (?n? or ?c?) %D @@ -5178,7 +5567,7 @@ printf-style sequences are understood: %I - disposition (I=inline, A=attachment) + disposition (?I? for inline, ?A? for attachment) %m @@ -5194,7 +5583,7 @@ printf-style sequences are understood: %Q - "Q", if MIME part qualifies for attachment counting + ?Q?, if MIME part qualifies for attachment counting %s @@ -5215,26 +5604,26 @@ printf-style sequences are understood: %X number of qualifying MIME parts in this part and its children (please see - the ``attachments'' section for possible speed effects) + the ?attachments? section for possible speed effects) %>X - right justify the rest of the string and pad with character "X" + right justify the rest of the string and pad with character ?X? %|X - pad to the end of the line with character "X" + pad to the end of the line with character ?X? %*X - soft-fill with character "X" as pad + soft-fill with character ?X? as pad -For an explanation of `soft-fill', see the ``$index_format'' documentation. +For an explanation of ?soft-fill?, see the $index_format documentation. 3.14. attach_sep Type: string -Default: "\n" +Default: ?\n? The separator to add between attachments when operating (saving, printing, piping, etc) on a list of tagged attachments. @@ -5246,29 +5635,30 @@ Default: yes If this variable is unset, when operating (saving, printing, piping, etc) on a list of tagged attachments, Mutt will concatenate the attachments and will -operate on them as a single attachment. The ``$attach_sep'' separator is added +operate on them as a single attachment. The $attach_sep separator is added after each attachment. When set, Mutt will operate on the attachments one by one. 3.16. attribution Type: string -Default: "On %d, %n wrote:" +Default: ?On %d, %n wrote:? This is the string that will precede a message which has been included in a -reply. For a full listing of defined printf()-like sequences see the section on -``$index_format''. +reply. For a full listing of defined printf(3)-like sequences see the section +on $index_format. 3.17. autoedit Type: boolean Default: no -When set along with ``$edit_headers'', Mutt will skip the initial send-menu and -allow you to immediately begin editing the body of your message. The send-menu -may still be accessed once you have finished editing the body of your message. +When set along with $edit_headers, Mutt will skip the initial send-menu +(prompting for subject and recipients) and allow you to immediately begin +editing the body of your message. The send-menu may still be accessed once you +have finished editing the body of your message. -Also see ``$fast_reply''. +Also see $fast_reply. 3.18. auto_tag @@ -5277,8 +5667,8 @@ Default: no When set, functions in the index menu which affect a message will be applied to all tagged messages (if there are any). When unset, you must first use the -tag-prefix function (default: ";") to make the next function apply to all -tagged messages. + function (bound to ?;? by default) to make the next function apply +to all tagged messages. 3.19. beep @@ -5293,7 +5683,7 @@ Type: boolean Default: no When this variable is set, mutt will beep whenever it prints a message -notifying you of new mail. This is independent of the setting of the ``$beep'' +notifying you of new mail. This is independent of the setting of the $beep variable. 3.21. bounce @@ -5320,9 +5710,9 @@ Type: boolean Default: no When this variable is set, mutt will place the cursor at the beginning of the -current line in menus, even when the arrow_cursor variable is unset, making it +current line in menus, even when the $arrow_cursor variable is unset, making it easier for blind persons using Braille displays to follow these menus. The -option is disabled by default because many visual terminals don't permit making +option is unset by default because many visual terminals don't permit making the cursor invisible. 3.24. check_mbox_size @@ -5331,16 +5721,31 @@ Type: boolean Default: no When this variable is set, mutt will use file size attribute instead of access -time when checking for new mail. +time when checking for new mail in mbox and mmdf folders. + +This variable is unset by default and should only be enabled when new mail +detection for these folder types is unreliable or doesn't work. + +Note that enabling this variable should happen before any ?mailboxes? +directives occur in configuration files regarding mbox or mmdf folders because +mutt needs to determine the initial new mail status of such a mailbox by +performing a fast mailbox scan when it is defined. Afterwards the new mail +status is tracked by file size changes. 3.25. charset Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) Character set your terminal uses to display and enter textual data. It is also the fallback for $send_charset. +Upon startup Mutt tries to derive this value from environment variables such as +$LC_CTYPE or $LANG. + +Note: It should only be set in case Mutt isn't abled to determine the character +set used correctly. + 3.26. check_new Type: boolean @@ -5351,8 +5756,8 @@ Note: this option only affects maildir and MH style mailboxes. When set, Mutt will check for new mail delivered while the mailbox is open. Especially with MH mailboxes, this operation can take quite some time since it involves scanning the directory and checking each file to see if it has already -been looked at. If check_new is unset, no check for new mail is performed while -the mailbox is open. +been looked at. If this variable is unset, no check for new mail is performed +while the mailbox is open. 3.27. collapse_unread @@ -5372,10 +5777,10 @@ thread is uncollapsed. 3.29. compose_format Type: string -Default: "-- Mutt: Compose [Approx. msg size: %l Atts: %a]%>-" +Default: ?-- Mutt: Compose [Approx. msg size: %l Atts: %a]%>-? -Controls the format of the status line displayed in the Compose menu. This -string is similar to ``$status_format'', but has its own set of printf()-like +Controls the format of the status line displayed in the ?compose? menu. This +string is similar to $status_format, but has its own set of printf(3)-like sequences: %a @@ -5394,15 +5799,24 @@ sequences: Mutt version string -See the text describing the ``$status_format'' option for more information on -how to set ``$compose_format''. +See the text describing the $status_format option for more information on how +to set $compose_format. 3.30. config_charset Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) -When defined, Mutt will recode commands in rc files from this encoding. +When defined, Mutt will recode commands in rc files from this encoding to the +current character set as specified by $charset and aliases written to +$alias_file from the current character set. + +Please note that if setting $charset it must be done before setting +$config_charset. + +Recoding should be avoided as it may render unconvertable characters as +question marks which can lead to undesired side effects (for example in regular +expressions). 3.31. confirmappend @@ -5425,14 +5839,14 @@ which does not yet exist before creating it. Type: number Default: 30 -Causes Mutt to timeout a network connection (for IMAP or POP) after this many -seconds if the connection is not able to be established. A negative value -causes Mutt to wait indefinitely for the connection to succeed. +Causes Mutt to timeout a network connection (for IMAP, POP or SMTP) after this +many seconds if the connection is not able to be established. A negative value +causes Mutt to wait indefinitely for the connection attempt to succeed. 3.34. content_type Type: string -Default: "text/plain" +Default: ?text/plain? Sets the default Content-Type for the body of newly composed messages. @@ -5442,8 +5856,8 @@ Type: quadoption Default: yes This variable controls whether or not copies of your outgoing messages will be -saved for later references. Also see ``$record'', ``$save_name'', ``$force_name -'' and ``fcc-hook''. +saved for later references. Also see $record, $save_name, $force_name and ? +fcc-hook?. 3.36. crypt_use_gpgme @@ -5460,8 +5874,9 @@ in .muttrc; it won't have any effect when used interactively. Type: boolean Default: no -(http://www.g10code.de/docs/pka-intro.de.pdf) during signature verification -(only supported by the GPGME backend). +Controls whether mutt uses PKA (see http://www.g10code.de/docs/ +pka-intro.de.pdf) during signature verification (only supported by the GPGME +backend). 3.38. crypt_autopgp @@ -5469,9 +5884,8 @@ Type: boolean Default: yes This variable controls whether or not mutt may automatically enable PGP -encryption/signing for messages. See also ``$crypt_autoencrypt'', `` -$crypt_replyencrypt'', ``$crypt_autosign'', ``$crypt_replysign'' and `` -$smime_is_default''. +encryption/signing for messages. See also $crypt_autoencrypt, +$crypt_replyencrypt, $crypt_autosign, $crypt_replysign and $smime_is_default. 3.39. crypt_autosmime @@ -5479,38 +5893,39 @@ Type: boolean Default: yes This variable controls whether or not mutt may automatically enable S/MIME -encryption/signing for messages. See also ``$crypt_autoencrypt'', `` -$crypt_replyencrypt'', ``$crypt_autosign'', ``$crypt_replysign'' and `` -$smime_is_default''. +encryption/signing for messages. See also $crypt_autoencrypt, +$crypt_replyencrypt, $crypt_autosign, $crypt_replysign and $smime_is_default. 3.40. date_format Type: string -Default: "!%a, %b %d, %Y at %I:%M:%S%p %Z" +Default: ?!%a, %b %d, %Y at %I:%M:%S%p %Z? -This variable controls the format of the date printed by the ``%d'' sequence in -``$index_format''. This is passed to the strftime call to process the date. See -the man page for strftime(3) for the proper syntax. +This variable controls the format of the date printed by the ?%d? sequence in +$index_format. This is passed to the strftime(3) function to process the date, +see the man page for the proper syntax. -Unless the first character in the string is a bang (``!''), the month and week -day names are expanded according to the locale specified in the variable `` -$locale''. If the first character in the string is a bang, the bang is -discarded, and the month and week day names in the rest of the string are -expanded in the C locale (that is in US English). +Unless the first character in the string is a bang (?!?), the month and week +day names are expanded according to the locale specified in the variable +$locale. If the first character in the string is a bang, the bang is discarded, +and the month and week day names in the rest of the string are expanded in the +C locale (that is in US English). 3.41. default_hook Type: string -Default: "~f %s !~P | (~P ~C %s)" +Default: ??f %s !?P | (?P ?C %s)? -This variable controls how message-hooks, reply-hooks, send-hooks, send2-hooks, -save-hooks, and fcc-hooks will be interpreted if they are specified with only a -simple regexp, instead of a matching pattern. The hooks are expanded when they -are declared, so a hook will be interpreted according to the value of this -variable at the time the hook is declared. The default value matches if the -message is either from a user matching the regular expression given, or if it -is from you (if the from address matches ``alternates'') and is to or cc'ed to -a user matching the given regular expression. +This variable controls how ?message-hook?, ?reply-hook?, ?send-hook?, ? +send2-hook?, ?save-hook?, and ?fcc-hook? will be interpreted if they are +specified with only a simple regexp, instead of a matching pattern. The hooks +are expanded when they are declared, so a hook will be interpreted according to +the value of this variable at the time the hook is declared. + +The default value matches if the message is either from a user matching the +regular expression given, or if it is from you (if the from address matches ? +alternates?) and is to or cc'ed to a user matching the given regular +expression. 3.42. delete @@ -5538,12 +5953,12 @@ Default: yes If this option is set, mutt's received-attachments menu will not show the subparts of individual messages in a multipart/digest. To see these subparts, -press 'v' on that menu. +press ?v? on that menu. 3.45. display_filter Type: path -Default: "" +Default: (empty) When set, specifies a command used to filter messages. When a message is viewed it is passed as standard input to $display_filter, and the filtered message is @@ -5552,14 +5967,14 @@ read from the standard output. 3.46. dotlock_program Type: path -Default: "/usr/local/bin/mutt_dotlock" +Default: ?/usr/local/bin/mutt_dotlock? -Contains the path of the mutt_dotlock (8) binary to be used by mutt. +Contains the path of the mutt_dotlock(8) binary to be used by mutt. 3.47. dsn_notify Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This variable sets the request for when notification is returned. The string consists of a comma separated list (no spaces!) of one or more of the @@ -5567,38 +5982,46 @@ following: never, to never request notification, failure, to request notification on transmission failure, delay, to be notified of message delays, success, to be notified of successful transmission. -Example: set dsn_notify="failure,delay" +Example: + +set dsn_notify="failure,delay" + Note: when using $sendmail for delivery, you should not enable this unless you are either using Sendmail 8.8.x or greater or a MTA providing a sendmail(1) --compatible interface supporting the -N option for DSN. For SMTP delivery, it -depends on the server whether DSN is supported or not. +-compatible interface supporting the -N option for DSN. For SMTP delivery, DSN +support is autodetected so that it depends on the server whether DSN will be +used or not. 3.48. dsn_return Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This variable controls how much of your message is returned in DSN messages. It may be set to either hdrs to return just the message header, or full to return the full message. -Example: set dsn_return=hdrs +Example: + +set dsn_return=hdrs + Note: when using $sendmail for delivery, you should not enable this unless you are either using Sendmail 8.8.x or greater or a MTA providing a sendmail(1) --compatible interface supporting the -R option for DSN. For SMTP delivery, it -depends on the server whether DSN is supported or not. +-compatible interface supporting the -R option for DSN. For SMTP delivery, DSN +support is autodetected so that it depends on the server whether DSN will be +used or not. 3.49. duplicate_threads Type: boolean Default: yes -This variable controls whether mutt, when sorting by threads, threads messages -with the same message-id together. If it is set, it will indicate that it -thinks they are duplicates of each other with an equals sign in the thread -diagram. +This variable controls whether mutt, when $sort is set to threads, threads +messages with the same Message-Id together. If it is set, it will indicate that +it thinks they are duplicates of each other with an equals sign in the thread +tree. 3.50. edit_headers @@ -5614,10 +6037,10 @@ interoperability reasons. 3.51. editor Type: path -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This variable specifies which editor is used by mutt. It defaults to the value -of the VISUAL, or EDITOR, environment variable, or to the string "vi" if +of the $VISUAL, or $EDITOR, environment variable, or to the string ?vi? if neither of those are set. 3.52. encode_from @@ -5626,21 +6049,23 @@ Type: boolean Default: no When set, mutt will quoted-printable encode messages when they contain the -string "From " in the beginning of a line. Useful to avoid the tampering -certain mail delivery and transport agents tend to do with messages. +string ?From ? (note the trailing space) in the beginning of a line. This is +useful to avoid the tampering certain mail delivery and transport agents tend +to do with messages (in order to prevent tools from misinterpreting the line as +a mbox message separator). 3.53. envelope_from_address Type: e-mail address -Default: "" +Default: (empty) Manually sets the envelope sender for outgoing messages. This value is ignored -if ``$use_envelope_from'' is unset. +if $use_envelope_from is unset. 3.54. escape Type: string -Default: "~" +Default: ??? Escape character to use for functions in the builtin editor. @@ -5653,7 +6078,7 @@ When set, the initial prompt for recipients and subject are skipped when replying to messages, and the initial prompt for subject is skipped when forwarding messages. -Note: this variable has no effect when the ``$autoedit'' variable is set. +Note: this variable has no effect when the $autoedit variable is set. 3.56. fcc_attach @@ -5674,22 +6099,22 @@ when the actual message is encrypted and/or signed. (PGP only) 3.58. folder Type: path -Default: "~/Mail" +Default: ??/Mail? -Specifies the default location of your mailboxes. A `+' or `=' at the beginning +Specifies the default location of your mailboxes. A ?+? or ?=? at the beginning of a pathname will be expanded to the value of this variable. Note that if you -change this variable from the default value you need to make sure that the -assignment occurs before you use `+' or `=' for any other variables since -expansion takes place during the `set' command. +change this variable (from the default) value you need to make sure that the +assignment occurs before you use ?+? or ?=? for any other variables since +expansion takes place when handling the ?mailboxes? command. 3.59. folder_format Type: string -Default: "%2C %t %N %F %2l %-8.8u %-8.8g %8s %d %f" +Default: ?%2C %t %N %F %2l %-8.8u %-8.8g %8s %d %f? This variable allows you to customize the file browser display to your personal -taste. This string is similar to ``$index_format'', but has its own set of -printf()-like sequences: +taste. This string is similar to $index_format, but has its own set of printf +(3)-like sequences: %C @@ -5725,7 +6150,7 @@ printf()-like sequences: %t - * if the file is tagged, blank otherwise + ?*? if the file is tagged, blank otherwise %u @@ -5733,46 +6158,48 @@ printf()-like sequences: %>X - right justify the rest of the string and pad with character "X" + right justify the rest of the string and pad with character ?X? %|X - pad to the end of the line with character "X" + pad to the end of the line with character ?X? %*X - soft-fill with character "X" as pad + soft-fill with character ?X? as pad -For an explanation of `soft-fill', see the ``$index_format'' documentation. +For an explanation of ?soft-fill?, see the $index_format documentation. 3.60. followup_to Type: boolean Default: yes -Controls whether or not the Mail-Followup-To header field is generated when +Controls whether or not the ?Mail-Followup-To:? header field is generated when sending mail. When set, Mutt will generate this field when you are replying to -a known mailing list, specified with the ``subscribe'' or ``lists'' commands. +a known mailing list, specified with the ?subscribe? or ?lists? commands. This field has two purposes. First, preventing you from receiving duplicate copies of replies to messages which you send to mailing lists, and second, ensuring that you do get a reply separately for any messages sent to known -lists to which you are not subscribed. The header will contain only the list's -address for subscribed lists, and both the list address and your own email -address for unsubscribed lists. Without this header, a group reply to your -message sent to a subscribed list will be sent to both the list and your -address, resulting in two copies of the same email for you. +lists to which you are not subscribed. + +The header will contain only the list's address for subscribed lists, and both +the list address and your own email address for unsubscribed lists. Without +this header, a group reply to your message sent to a subscribed list will be +sent to both the list and your address, resulting in two copies of the same +email for you. 3.61. force_name Type: boolean Default: no -This variable is similar to ``$save_name'', except that Mutt will store a copy -of your outgoing message by the username of the address you are sending to even -if that mailbox does not exist. +This variable is similar to $save_name, except that Mutt will store a copy of +your outgoing message by the username of the address you are sending to even if +that mailbox does not exist. -Also see the ``$record'' variable. +Also see the $record variable. 3.62. forward_decode @@ -5781,7 +6208,7 @@ Default: yes Controls the decoding of complex MIME messages into text/plain when forwarding a message. The message header is also RFC2047 decoded. This variable is only -used, if ``$mime_forward'' is unset, otherwise ``$mime_forward_decode'' is used +used, if $mime_forward is unset, otherwise $mime_forward_decode is used instead. 3.63. forward_edit @@ -5791,58 +6218,57 @@ Default: yes This quadoption controls whether or not the user is automatically placed in the editor when forwarding messages. For those who always want to forward with no -modification, use a setting of ``no''. +modification, use a setting of ?no?. 3.64. forward_format Type: string -Default: "[%a: %s]" +Default: ?[%a: %s]? This variable controls the default subject when forwarding a message. It uses -the same format sequences as the ``$index_format'' variable. +the same format sequences as the $index_format variable. 3.65. forward_quote Type: boolean Default: no -When set forwarded messages included in the main body of the message (when `` -$mime_forward'' is unset) will be quoted using ``$indent_string''. +When set, forwarded messages included in the main body of the message (when +$mime_forward is unset) will be quoted using $indent_string. 3.66. from Type: e-mail address -Default: "" +Default: (empty) When set, this variable contains a default from address. It can be overridden -using my_hdr (including from send-hooks) and ``$reverse_name''. This variable -is ignored if ``$use_from'' is unset. +using ?my_hdr? (including from a ?send-hook?) and $reverse_name. This variable +is ignored if $use_from is unset. -Defaults to the contents of the environment variable EMAIL. +This setting defaults to the contents of the environment variable $EMAIL. 3.67. gecos_mask Type: regular expression -Default: "^[^,]*" +Default: ?^[^,]*? A regular expression used by mutt to parse the GECOS field of a password entry -when expanding the alias. By default the regular expression is set to "^[^,]*" -which will return the string up to the first "," encountered. If the GECOS -field contains a string like "lastname, firstname" then you should set the -gecos_mask=".*". +when expanding the alias. The default value will return the string up to the +first ?,? encountered. If the GECOS field contains a string like ?lastname, +firstname? then you should set it to ?.*?. This can be useful if you see the following behavior: you address a e-mail to -user ID stevef whose full name is Steve Franklin. If mutt expands stevef to -"Franklin" stevef@foo.bar then you should set the gecos_mask to a regular -expression that will match the whole name so mutt will expand "Franklin" to -"Franklin, Steve". +user ID ?stevef? whose full name is ?Steve Franklin?. If mutt expands ?stevef? +to ?"Franklin" stevef@foo.bar? then you should set the $gecos_mask to a regular +expression that will match the whole name so mutt will expand ?Franklin? to +?Franklin, Steve?. 3.68. hdrs Type: boolean Default: yes -When unset, the header fields normally added by the ``my_hdr'' command are not +When unset, the header fields normally added by the ?my_hdr? command are not created. This variable must be unset before composing a new message or replying in order to take effect. If set, the user defined header fields are added to every new message. @@ -5853,7 +6279,7 @@ Type: boolean Default: no When set, this variable causes Mutt to include the header of the message you -are replying to into the edit buffer. The ``$weed'' setting applies. +are replying to into the edit buffer. The $weed setting applies. 3.70. help @@ -5873,10 +6299,9 @@ aimed at new users, neither of these should present a major problem. Type: boolean Default: no -When set, mutt will skip the host name part of ``$hostname'' variable when -adding the domain part to addresses. This variable does not affect the -generation of Message-IDs, and it will not lead to the cut-off of first-level -domains. +When set, mutt will skip the host name part of $hostname variable when adding +the domain part to addresses. This variable does not affect the generation of +Message-IDs, and it will not lead to the cut-off of first-level domains. 3.72. hide_limited @@ -5926,12 +6351,13 @@ Type: number Default: 10 This variable controls the size (in number of strings remembered) of the string -history buffer. The buffer is cleared each time the variable is set. +history buffer per category. The buffer is cleared each time the variable is +set. 3.78. history_file Type: path -Default: "~/.mutthistory" +Default: ??/.mutthistory? The file in which Mutt will save its history. @@ -5946,57 +6372,60 @@ group-replying to a message. 3.80. hostname Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) Specifies the fully-qualified hostname of the system mutt is running on containing the host's name and the DNS domain it belongs to. It is used as the -domain part (after ``@'') for local email addresses as well as Message-Id +domain part (after ?@?) for local email addresses as well as Message-Id headers. Its value is determined at startup as follows: If the node's name as returned by the uname(3) function contains the hostname and the domain, these are used to construct $hostname. If there is no domain part returned, Mutt will look for -a ``domain'' or ``search'' line in /etc/resolv.conf to determine the domain. +a ?domain? or ?search? line in /etc/resolv.conf to determine the domain. Optionally, Mutt can be compiled with a fixed domain name in which case a detected one is not used. -Also see ``$use_domain'' and ``$hidden_host''. +Also see $use_domain and $hidden_host. 3.81. ignore_linear_white_space Type: boolean Default: no -This option replaces linear-white-space between encoded-word and *text to a -single space to prevent the display of MIME-encoded ``Subject'' field from -being divided into multiple lines. +This option replaces linear-white-space between encoded-word and text to a +single space to prevent the display of MIME-encoded ?Subject:? field from being +divided into multiple lines. 3.82. ignore_list_reply_to Type: boolean Default: no -Affects the behaviour of the reply function when replying to messages from -mailing lists (as defined by the ``subscribe'' or ``lists'' commands). When -set, if the ``Reply-To:'' field is set to the same value as the ``To:'' field, -Mutt assumes that the ``Reply-To:'' field was set by the mailing list to -automate responses to the list, and will ignore this field. To direct a -response to the mailing list when this option is set, use the list-reply -function; group-reply will reply to both the sender and the list. +Affects the behaviour of the function when replying to messages from +mailing lists (as defined by the ?subscribe? or ?lists? commands). When set, if +the ?Reply-To:? field is set to the same value as the ?To:? field, Mutt assumes +that the ?Reply-To:? field was set by the mailing list to automate responses to +the list, and will ignore this field. To direct a response to the mailing list +when this option is set, use the function; will +reply to both the sender and the list. 3.83. imap_authenticators Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This is a colon-delimited list of authentication methods mutt may attempt to use to log in to an IMAP server, in the order mutt should try them. -Authentication methods are either 'login' or the right side of an IMAP 'AUTH= -xxx' capability string, eg 'digest-md5', 'gssapi' or 'cram-md5'. This parameter -is case-insensitive. If this parameter is unset (the default) mutt will try all -available methods, in order from most-secure to least-secure. +Authentication methods are either ?login? or the right side of an IMAP ?AUTH= +xxx? capability string, eg ?digest-md5?, ?gssapi? or ?cram-md5?. This option is +case-insensitive. If it's unset (the default) mutt will try all available +methods, in order from most-secure to least-secure. + +Example: + +set imap_authenticators="gssapi:cram-md5:login" -Example: set imap_authenticators="gssapi:cram-md5:login" Note: Mutt will only fall back to other authentication methods if the previous methods are unavailable. If a method is available but authentication fails, @@ -6008,28 +6437,32 @@ Type: boolean Default: no When set, mutt will fetch the set of subscribed folders from your server on -connection, and add them to the set of mailboxes it polls for new mail. See -also the ``mailboxes'' command. +connection, and add them to the set of mailboxes it polls for new mail just as +if you had issued individual ?mailboxes? commands. 3.85. imap_delim_chars Type: string -Default: "/." +Default: ?/.? This contains the list of characters which you would like to treat as folder -separators for displaying IMAP paths. In particular it helps in using the '=' +separators for displaying IMAP paths. In particular it helps in using the ?=? shortcut for your folder variable. 3.86. imap_headers Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) -Mutt requests these header fields in addition to the default headers ("DATE -FROM SUBJECT TO CC MESSAGE-ID REFERENCES CONTENT-TYPE CONTENT-DESCRIPTION -IN-REPLY-TO REPLY-TO LINES X-LABEL") from IMAP servers before displaying the -index menu. You may want to add more headers for spam detection. Note: This is -a space separated list. +Mutt requests these header fields in addition to the default headers (?Date:?, +?From:?, ?Subject:?, ?To:?, ?Cc:?, ?Message-Id:?, ?References:?, +?Content-Type:?, ?Content-Description:?, ?In-Reply-To:?, ?Reply-To:?, ?Lines:?, +?List-Post:?, ?X-Label:?) from IMAP servers before displaying the index menu. +You may want to add more headers for spam detection. + +Note: This is a space separated list, items should be uppercase and not contain +the colon, e.g. ?X-BOGOSITY X-SPAM-STATUS? for the ?X-Bogosity:? and +?X-Spam-Status:? header fields. 3.87. imap_idle @@ -6061,27 +6494,29 @@ Default: no This variable configures whether IMAP folder browsing will look for only subscribed folders or all folders. This can be toggled in the IMAP browser with -the toggle-subscribed function. +the function. 3.90. imap_login Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) Your login name on the IMAP server. -This variable defaults to the value of imap_user. +This variable defaults to the value of $imap_user. 3.91. imap_pass Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) Specifies the password for your IMAP account. If unset, Mutt will prompt you -for your password when you invoke the fetch-mail function. Warning: you should -only use this option when you are on a fairly secure machine, because the -superuser can read your muttrc even if you are the only one who can read the -file. +for your password when you invoke the function or try to open an +IMAP folder. + +Warning: you should only use this option when you are on a fairly secure +machine, because the superuser can read your muttrc even if you are the only +one who can read the file. 3.92. imap_passive @@ -6103,7 +6538,20 @@ fetch a message from the server. This is generally a good thing, but can make closing an IMAP folder somewhat slower. This option exists to appease speed freaks. -3.94. imap_servernoise +3.94. imap_pipeline_depth + +Type: number +Default: 15 + +Controls the number of IMAP commands that may be queued up before they are sent +to the server. A deeper pipeline reduces the amount of time mutt must wait for +the server, and can make IMAP servers feel much more responsive. But not all +servers correctly handle pipelined commands, so if you have problems you might +want to try setting this variable to 0. + +Note: Changes to this variable have no effect on open connections. + +3.95. imap_servernoise Type: boolean Default: yes @@ -6113,26 +6561,26 @@ messages. Since these messages are often harmless, or generated due to configuration problems on the server which are out of the users' hands, you may wish to suppress them at some point. -3.95. imap_user +3.96. imap_user Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) The name of the user whose mail you intend to access on the IMAP server. This variable defaults to your user name on the local machine. -3.96. implicit_autoview +3.97. implicit_autoview Type: boolean Default: no -If set to ``yes'', mutt will look for a mailcap entry with the copiousoutput +If set to ?yes?, mutt will look for a mailcap entry with the ?copiousoutput? flag set for every MIME attachment it doesn't have an internal viewer defined for. If such an entry is found, mutt will use the viewer defined in that entry to convert the body part to text form. -3.97. include +3.98. include Type: quadoption Default: ask-yes @@ -6140,7 +6588,7 @@ Default: ask-yes Controls whether or not a copy of the message(s) you are replying to is included in your reply. -3.98. include_onlyfirst +3.99. include_onlyfirst Type: boolean Default: no @@ -6148,29 +6596,32 @@ Default: no Controls whether or not Mutt includes only the first attachment of the message you are replying. -3.99. indent_string +3.100. indent_string Type: string -Default: "> " +Default: ?> ? Specifies the string to prepend to each line of text quoted in a message to which you are replying. You are strongly encouraged not to change this value, as it tends to agitate the more fanatical netizens. -This option is a format string, please see the description of ``$index_format'' -for supported printf()-style sequences. +This option is a format string, please see the description of $index_format for +supported printf(3)-style sequences. -3.100. index_format +Because for format=lowed style messages the quoting mechanism is strictly +defined, this setting is ignored if $text_flowed is set. + +3.101. index_format Type: string -Default: "%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%?l?%4l&%4c?) %s" +Default: ?%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%?l?%4l&%4c?) %s? This variable allows you to customize the message index display to your personal taste. -``Format strings'' are similar to the strings used in the ``C'' function printf -to format output (see the man page for more detail). The following sequences -are defined in Mutt: +?Format strings? are similar to the strings used in the C function printf(3) to +format output (see the man page for more details). The following sequences are +defined in Mutt: %a @@ -6182,7 +6633,7 @@ are defined in Mutt: %b - filename of the original message folder (think mailBox) + filename of the original message folder (think mailbox) %B @@ -6198,12 +6649,12 @@ are defined in Mutt: %d - date and time of the message in the format specified by ``date_format'' + date and time of the message in the format specified by $date_format converted to sender's time zone %D - date and time of the message in the format specified by ``date_format'' + date and time of the message in the format specified by $date_format converted to the local time zone %e @@ -6237,8 +6688,8 @@ are defined in Mutt: %L - If an address in the To or CC header field matches an address defined by - the users ``subscribe'' command, this displays "To ", otherwise + If an address in the ?To:? or ?Cc:? header field matches an address defined + by the users ?subscribe? command, this displays "To ", otherwise the same as %F. %m @@ -6259,8 +6710,8 @@ are defined in Mutt: %O - (_O_riginal save folder) Where mutt would formerly have stashed the - message: list name or recipient name if no list + original save folder where mutt would formerly have stashed the message: + list name or recipient name if not sent to a list %P @@ -6273,11 +6724,11 @@ are defined in Mutt: %S - status of the message (N/D/d/!/r/*) + status of the message (?N?/?D?/?d?/?!?/?r?/*) %t - `to:' field (recipients) + ?To:? field (recipients) %T @@ -6293,18 +6744,18 @@ are defined in Mutt: %X - number of attachments (please see the ``attachments'' section for possible + number of attachments (please see the ?attachments? section for possible speed effects) %y - `x-label:' field, if present + ?X-Label:? field, if present %Y - `x-label' field, if present, and (1) not at part of a thread tree, (2) at - the top of a thread, or (3) `x-label' is different from preceding message's - `x-label'. + ?X-Label:? field, if present, and (1) not at part of a thread tree, (2) at + the top of a thread, or (3) ?X-Label:? is different from preceding + message's ?X-Label:?. %Z @@ -6313,89 +6764,87 @@ are defined in Mutt: %{fmt} the date and time of the message is converted to sender's time zone, and - ``fmt'' is expanded by the library function ``strftime''; a leading bang + ?fmt? is expanded by the library function strftime(3); a leading bang disables locales %[fmt] the date and time of the message is converted to the local time zone, and - ``fmt'' is expanded by the library function ``strftime''; a leading bang + ?fmt? is expanded by the library function strftime(3); a leading bang disables locales %(fmt) - the local date and time when the message was received. ``fmt'' is expanded - by the library function ``strftime''; a leading bang disables locales + the local date and time when the message was received. ?fmt? is expanded by + the library function strftime(3); a leading bang disables locales % - the current local time. ``fmt'' is expanded by the library function - ``strftime''; a leading bang disables locales. + the current local time. ?fmt? is expanded by the library function strftime + (3); a leading bang disables locales. %>X - right justify the rest of the string and pad with character "X" + right justify the rest of the string and pad with character ?X? %|X - pad to the end of the line with character "X" + pad to the end of the line with character ?X? %*X - soft-fill with character "X" as pad + soft-fill with character ?X? as pad -`Soft-fill' deserves some explanation. Normal right-justification will print -everything to the left of the %>, displaying padding and the whatever lies to -the right only if there's room. By contrast, soft-fill gives priority to the +?Soft-fill? deserves some explanation: Normal right-justification will print +everything to the left of the ?%>?, displaying padding and whatever lies to the +right only if there's room. By contrast, soft-fill gives priority to the right-hand side, guaranteeing space to display it and showing padding only if there's still room. If necessary, soft-fill will eat text leftwards to make room for rightward text. -Note that these expandos are supported in ``save-hook'', ``fcc-hook'' and `` -fcc-save-hook'', too. - -See also: ``$to_chars''. +Note that these expandos are supported in ?save-hook?, ?fcc-hook? and ? +fcc-save-hook?, too. -3.101. ispell +3.102. ispell Type: path -Default: "ispell" +Default: ?ispell? How to invoke ispell (GNU's spell-checking software). -3.102. keep_flagged +3.103. keep_flagged Type: boolean Default: no If set, read messages marked as flagged will not be moved from your spool -mailbox to your ``$mbox'' mailbox, or as a result of a ``mbox-hook'' command. +mailbox to your $mbox mailbox, or as a result of a ?mbox-hook? command. -3.103. locale +3.104. locale Type: string -Default: "C" +Default: ?C? The locale used by strftime(3) to format dates. Legal values are the strings -your system accepts for the locale variable LC_TIME. +your system accepts for the locale environment variable $LC_TIME. -3.104. mail_check +3.105. mail_check Type: number Default: 5 This variable configures how often (in seconds) mutt should look for new mail. -Also see the ``$timeout'' variable. +Also see the $timeout variable. -3.105. mailcap_path +3.106. mailcap_path Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This variable specifies which files to consult when attempting to display MIME bodies not directly supported by Mutt. -3.106. mailcap_sanitize +3.107. mailcap_sanitize Type: boolean Default: yes @@ -6406,115 +6855,122 @@ sure it doesn't break some more advanced MIME stuff. DON'T CHANGE THIS SETTING UNLESS YOU ARE REALLY SURE WHAT YOU ARE DOING! -3.107. header_cache +3.108. header_cache Type: path -Default: "" +Default: (empty) -The header_cache variable points to the header cache database. If header_cache -points to a directory it will contain a header cache database per folder. If -header_cache points to a file that file will be a single global header cache. -By default it is unset so no header caching will be used. +This variable points to the header cache database. If pointing to a directory +Mutt will contain a header cache database file per folder, if pointing to a +file that file will be a single global header cache. By default it is unset so +no header caching will be used. -3.108. maildir_header_cache_verify +Header caching can greatly improve speed when opening POP, IMAP MH or Maildir +folders, see ?caching? for details. + +3.109. maildir_header_cache_verify Type: boolean Default: yes Check for Maildir unaware programs other than mutt having modified maildir files when the header cache is in use. This incurs one stat(2) per message -every time the folder is opened. +every time the folder is opened (which can be very slow for NFS folders). -3.109. header_cache_pagesize +3.110. header_cache_pagesize Type: string -Default: "16384" +Default: ?16384? When mutt is compiled with either gdbm or bdb4 as the header cache backend, this option changes the database page size. Too large or too small values can waste space, memory, or CPU time. The default should be more or less optimal for most use cases. -3.110. header_cache_compress +3.111. header_cache_compress Type: boolean Default: yes -When mutt is compiled with qdbm as header cache backend, this option determines -whether the database will be compressed. Compression results in database files -roughly being one fifth of the usual diskspace, but the uncompression can -result in a slower opening of cached folder(s). +When mutt is compiled with qdbm or tokyocabinet as header cache backend, this +option determines whether the database will be compressed. Compression results +in database files roughly being one fifth of the usual diskspace, but the +uncompression can result in a slower opening of cached folder(s) which in +general is still much faster than opening non header cached folders. -3.111. maildir_trash +3.112. maildir_trash Type: boolean Default: no -If set, messages marked as deleted will be saved with the maildir (T)rashed -flag instead of unlinked. NOTE: this only applies to maildir-style mailboxes. +If set, messages marked as deleted will be saved with the maildir trashed flag +instead of unlinked. Note: this only applies to maildir-style mailboxes. Setting it will have no effect on other mailbox types. -3.112. mark_old +3.113. mark_old Type: boolean Default: yes -Controls whether or not mutt marks newunread messages as old if you exit a +Controls whether or not mutt marks new unread messages as old if you exit a mailbox without reading them. With this option set, the next time you start -mutt, the messages will show up with an "O" next to them in the index menu, +mutt, the messages will show up with an ?O? next to them in the index menu, indicating that they are old. -3.113. markers +3.114. markers Type: boolean Default: yes -Controls the display of wrapped lines in the internal pager. If set, a ``+'' -marker is displayed at the beginning of wrapped lines. Also see the `` -$smart_wrap'' variable. +Controls the display of wrapped lines in the internal pager. If set, a ?+? +marker is displayed at the beginning of wrapped lines. + +Also see the $smart_wrap variable. -3.114. mask +3.115. mask Type: regular expression -Default: "!^\.[^.]" +Default: ?!^\.[^.]? A regular expression used in the file browser, optionally preceded by the not -operator ``!''. Only files whose names match this mask will be shown. The match +operator ?!?. Only files whose names match this mask will be shown. The match is always case-sensitive. -3.115. mbox +3.116. mbox Type: path -Default: "~/mbox" +Default: ??/mbox? -This specifies the folder into which read mail in your ``$spoolfile'' folder -will be appended. +This specifies the folder into which read mail in your $spoolfile folder will +be appended. -3.116. mbox_type +Also see the $move variable. + +3.117. mbox_type Type: folder magic Default: mbox -The default mailbox type used when creating new folders. May be any of mbox, -MMDF, MH and Maildir. +The default mailbox type used when creating new folders. May be any of ?mbox?, +?MMDF?, ?MH? and ?Maildir?. -3.117. metoo +3.118. metoo Type: boolean Default: no -If unset, Mutt will remove your address (see the ``alternates'' command) from -the list of recipients when replying to a message. +If unset, Mutt will remove your address (see the ?alternates? command) from the +list of recipients when replying to a message. -3.118. menu_context +3.119. menu_context Type: number Default: 0 This variable controls the number of lines of context that are given when -scrolling through menus. (Similar to ``$pager_context''.) +scrolling through menus. (Similar to $pager_context.) -3.119. menu_move_off +3.120. menu_move_off Type: boolean Default: yes @@ -6523,7 +6979,7 @@ When unset, the bottom entry of menus will never scroll up past the bottom of the screen, unless there are less entries than lines. When set, the bottom entry may move off the bottom. -3.120. menu_scroll +3.121. menu_scroll Type: boolean Default: no @@ -6533,86 +6989,89 @@ across a screen boundary. If unset, the screen is cleared and the next or previous page of the menu is displayed (useful for slow links to avoid many redraws). -3.121. meta_key +3.122. meta_key Type: boolean Default: no If set, forces Mutt to interpret keystrokes with the high bit (bit 8) set as if -the user had pressed the ESC key and whatever key remains after having the high +the user had pressed the Esc key and whatever key remains after having the high bit removed. For example, if the key pressed has an ASCII value of 0xf8, then -this is treated as if the user had pressed ESC then ``x''. This is because the -result of removing the high bit from ``0xf8'' is ``0x78'', which is the ASCII -character ``x''. +this is treated as if the user had pressed Esc then ?x?. This is because the +result of removing the high bit from 0xf8 is 0x78, which is the ASCII character +?x?. -3.122. mh_purge +3.123. mh_purge Type: boolean Default: no When unset, mutt will mimic mh's behaviour and rename deleted messages to , in mh folders instead of really deleting them. If the variable is -set, the message files will simply be deleted. +file name> in mh folders instead of really deleting them. This leaves the +message on disk but makes programs reading the folder ignore it. If the +variable is set, the message files will simply be deleted. + +This option is similar to $maildir_trash for Maildir folders. -3.123. mh_seq_flagged +3.124. mh_seq_flagged Type: string -Default: "flagged" +Default: ?flagged? The name of the MH sequence used for flagged messages. -3.124. mh_seq_replied +3.125. mh_seq_replied Type: string -Default: "replied" +Default: ?replied? The name of the MH sequence used to tag replied messages. -3.125. mh_seq_unseen +3.126. mh_seq_unseen Type: string -Default: "unseen" +Default: ?unseen? The name of the MH sequence used for unseen messages. -3.126. mime_forward +3.127. mime_forward Type: quadoption Default: no -When set, the message you are forwarding will be attached as a separate MIME -part instead of included in the main body of the message. This is useful for -forwarding MIME messages so the receiver can properly view the message as it -was delivered to you. If you like to switch between MIME and not MIME from mail -to mail, set this variable to ask-no or ask-yes. +When set, the message you are forwarding will be attached as a separate message +/rfc822 MIME part instead of included in the main body of the message. This is +useful for forwarding MIME messages so the receiver can properly view the +message as it was delivered to you. If you like to switch between MIME and not +MIME from mail to mail, set this variable to ?ask-no? or ?ask-yes?. -Also see ``$forward_decode'' and ``$mime_forward_decode''. +Also see $forward_decode and $mime_forward_decode. -3.127. mime_forward_decode +3.128. mime_forward_decode Type: boolean Default: no Controls the decoding of complex MIME messages into text/plain when forwarding -a message while ``$mime_forward'' is set. Otherwise ``$forward_decode'' is used +a message while $mime_forward is set. Otherwise $forward_decode is used instead. -3.128. mime_forward_rest +3.129. mime_forward_rest Type: quadoption Default: yes -When forwarding multiple attachments of a MIME message from the recvattach +When forwarding multiple attachments of a MIME message from the attachment menu, attachments which cannot be decoded in a reasonable manner will be attached to the newly composed message if this option is set. -3.129. mix_entry_format +3.130. mix_entry_format Type: string -Default: "%4n %c %-16s %a" +Default: ?%4n %c %-16s %a? This variable describes the format of a remailer line on the mixmaster chain -selection screen. The following printf-like sequences are supported: +selection screen. The following printf(3)-like sequences are supported: %n @@ -6630,52 +7089,56 @@ selection screen. The following printf-like sequences are supported: The remailer's e-mail address. -3.130. mixmaster +3.131. mixmaster Type: path -Default: "mixmaster" +Default: ?mixmaster? This variable contains the path to the Mixmaster binary on your system. It is used with various sets of parameters to gather the list of known remailers, and to finally send a message through the mixmaster chain. -3.131. move +3.132. move Type: quadoption -Default: ask-no +Default: no Controls whether or not Mutt will move read messages from your spool mailbox to -your ``$mbox'' mailbox, or as a result of a ``mbox-hook'' command. +your $mbox mailbox, or as a result of a ?mbox-hook? command. -3.132. message_cachedir +3.133. message_cachedir Type: path -Default: "" +Default: (empty) Set this to a directory and mutt will cache copies of messages from your IMAP -and POP servers here. You are free to remove entries at any time, for instance -if stale entries accumulate because you have deleted messages with another mail -client. +and POP servers here. You are free to remove entries at any time. + +When setting this variable to a directory, mutt needs to fetch every remote +message only once and can perform regular expression searches as fast as for +local folders. -3.133. message_cache_clean +Also see the $message_cache_clean variable. + +3.134. message_cache_clean Type: boolean Default: no -If set, mutt will clean out obsolete entries from the cache when the mailbox is -synchronized. You probably only want to set it every once in a while, since it -can be a little slow. +If set, mutt will clean out obsolete entries from the message cache when the +mailbox is synchronized. You probably only want to set it every once in a +while, since it can be a little slow (especially for large folders). -3.134. message_format +3.135. message_format Type: string -Default: "%s" +Default: ?%s? -This is the string displayed in the ``attachment'' menu for attachments of type -message/rfc822. For a full listing of defined printf()-like sequences see the -section on ``$index_format''. +This is the string displayed in the ?attachment? menu for attachments of type +message/rfc822. For a full listing of defined printf(3)-like sequences see the +section on $index_format. -3.135. narrow_tree +3.136. narrow_tree Type: boolean Default: no @@ -6683,32 +7146,32 @@ Default: no This variable, when set, makes the thread tree narrower, allowing deeper threads to fit on the screen. -3.136. net_inc +3.137. net_inc Type: number Default: 10 Operations that expect to transfer a large amount of data over the network will -update their progress every net_inc kilobytes. If set to 0, no progress +update their progress every $net_inc kilobytes. If set to 0, no progress messages will be displayed. -See also ``$read_inc'' and ``$write_inc''. +See also $read_inc, $write_inc and $net_inc. -3.137. pager +3.138. pager Type: path -Default: "builtin" +Default: ?builtin? -This variable specifies which pager you would like to use to view messages. -builtin means to use the builtin pager, otherwise this variable should specify -the pathname of the external pager you would like to use. +This variable specifies which pager you would like to use to view messages. The +value ?builtin? means to use the builtin pager, otherwise this variable should +specify the pathname of the external pager you would like to use. Using an external pager may have some disadvantages: Additional keystrokes are necessary because you can't call mutt functions directly from the pager, and screen resizes cause lines longer than the screen width to be badly formatted in the help menu. -3.138. pager_context +3.139. pager_context Type: number Default: 0 @@ -6718,16 +7181,16 @@ displaying the next or previous page in the internal pager. By default, Mutt will display the line after the last one on the screen at the top of the next page (0 lines of context). -3.139. pager_format +3.140. pager_format Type: string -Default: "-%Z- %C/%m: %-20.20n %s%* -- (%P)" +Default: ?-%Z- %C/%m: %-20.20n %s%* -- (%P)? -This variable controls the format of the one-line message ``status'' displayed +This variable controls the format of the one-line message ?status? displayed before each message in either the internal or an external pager. The valid -sequences are listed in the ``$index_format'' section. +sequences are listed in the $index_format section. -3.140. pager_index_lines +3.141. pager_index_lines Type: number Default: 0 @@ -6738,43 +7201,44 @@ be roughly one third of the way down this mini-index, giving the reader the context of a few messages before and after the message. This is useful, for example, to determine how many messages remain to be read in the current thread. One of the lines is reserved for the status bar from the index, so a -pager_index_lines of 6 will only show 5 lines of the actual index. A value of 0 -results in no index being shown. If the number of messages in the current -folder is less than pager_index_lines, then the index will only use as many -lines as it needs. +setting of 6 will only show 5 lines of the actual index. A value of 0 results +in no index being shown. If the number of messages in the current folder is +less than $pager_index_lines, then the index will only use as many lines as it +needs. -3.141. pager_stop +3.142. pager_stop Type: boolean Default: no When set, the internal-pager will not move to the next message when you are at -the end of a message and invoke the next-page function. +the end of a message and invoke the function. -3.142. crypt_autosign +3.143. crypt_autosign Type: boolean Default: no Setting this variable will cause Mutt to always attempt to cryptographically -sign outgoing messages. This can be overridden by use of the pgp-menu, when -signing is not required or encryption is requested as well. If `` -$smime_is_default'' is set, then OpenSSL is used instead to create S/MIME -messages and settings can be overridden by use of the smime-menu. (Crypto only) +sign outgoing messages. This can be overridden by use of the pgp menu, when +signing is not required or encryption is requested as well. If +$smime_is_default is set, then OpenSSL is used instead to create S/MIME +messages and settings can be overridden by use of the smime menu instead of the +pgp menu. (Crypto only) -3.143. crypt_autoencrypt +3.144. crypt_autoencrypt Type: boolean Default: no Setting this variable will cause Mutt to always attempt to PGP encrypt outgoing -messages. This is probably only useful in connection to the send-hook command. -It can be overridden by use of the pgp-menu, when encryption is not required or -signing is requested as well. IF ``$smime_is_default'' is set, then OpenSSL is -used instead to create S/MIME messages and settings can be overridden by use of -the smime-menu. (Crypto only) +messages. This is probably only useful in connection to the ?send-hook? +command. It can be overridden by use of the pgp menu, when encryption is not +required or signing is requested as well. If $smime_is_default is set, then +OpenSSL is used instead to create S/MIME messages and settings can be +overridden by use of the smime menu instead. (Crypto only) -3.144. pgp_ignore_subkeys +3.145. pgp_ignore_subkeys Type: boolean Default: yes @@ -6783,7 +7247,7 @@ Setting this variable will cause Mutt to ignore OpenPGP subkeys. Instead, the principal key will inherit the subkeys' capabilities. Unset this if you want to play interesting key selection games. (PGP only) -3.145. crypt_replyencrypt +3.146. crypt_replyencrypt Type: boolean Default: yes @@ -6791,7 +7255,7 @@ Default: yes If set, automatically PGP or OpenSSL encrypt replies to messages which are encrypted. (Crypto only) -3.146. crypt_replysign +3.147. crypt_replysign Type: boolean Default: no @@ -6801,18 +7265,18 @@ If set, automatically PGP or OpenSSL sign replies to messages which are signed. Note: this does not work on messages that are encrypted and signed! (Crypto only) -3.147. crypt_replysignencrypted +3.148. crypt_replysignencrypted Type: boolean Default: no If set, automatically PGP or OpenSSL sign replies to messages which are -encrypted. This makes sense in combination with ``$crypt_replyencrypt'', -because it allows you to sign all messages which are automatically encrypted. -This works around the problem noted in ``$crypt_replysign'', that mutt is not -able to find out whether an encrypted message is also signed. (Crypto only) +encrypted. This makes sense in combination with $crypt_replyencrypt, because it +allows you to sign all messages which are automatically encrypted. This works +around the problem noted in $crypt_replysign, that mutt is not able to find out +whether an encrypted message is also signed. (Crypto only) -3.148. crypt_timestamp +3.149. crypt_timestamp Type: boolean Default: yes @@ -6821,23 +7285,23 @@ If set, mutt will include a time stamp in the lines surrounding PGP or S/MIME output, so spoofing such lines is more difficult. If you are using colors to mark these lines, and rely on these, you may unset this setting. (Crypto only) -3.149. pgp_use_gpg_agent +3.150. pgp_use_gpg_agent Type: boolean Default: no -If set, mutt will use a possibly-running gpg-agent process. (PGP only) +If set, mutt will use a possibly-running gpg-agent(1) process. (PGP only) -3.150. crypt_verify_sig +3.151. crypt_verify_sig Type: quadoption Default: yes -If ``yes'', always attempt to verify PGP or S/MIME signatures. If ``ask'', ask -whether or not to verify the signature. If ``no'', never attempt to verify +If ?yes?, always attempt to verify PGP or S/MIME signatures. If ?ask-*?, ask +whether or not to verify the signature. If \Fi?no?, never attempt to verify cryptographic signatures. (Crypto only) -3.151. smime_is_default +3.152. smime_is_default Type: boolean Default: no @@ -6848,7 +7312,7 @@ this has no effect while replying, since mutt will automatically select the same application that was used to sign/encrypt the original message. (Note that this variable can be overridden by unsetting $crypt_autosmime.) (S/MIME only) -3.152. smime_ask_cert_label +3.153. smime_ask_cert_label Type: boolean Default: yes @@ -6857,24 +7321,24 @@ This flag controls whether you want to be asked to enter a label for a certificate about to be added to the database or not. It is set by default. (S/ MIME only) -3.153. smime_decrypt_use_default_key +3.154. smime_decrypt_use_default_key Type: boolean Default: yes If set (default) this tells mutt to use the default key for decryption. -Otherwise, if manage multiple certificate-key-pairs, mutt will try to use the +Otherwise, if managing multiple certificate-key-pairs, mutt will try to use the mailbox-address to determine the key to use. It will ask you to supply a key, if it can't find one. (S/MIME only) -3.154. pgp_entry_format +3.155. pgp_entry_format Type: string -Default: "%4n %t%f %4l/0x%k %-4a %2c %u" +Default: ?%4n %t%f %4l/0x%k %-4a %2c %u? This variable allows you to customize the PGP key selection menu to your -personal taste. This string is similar to ``$index_format'', but has its own -set of printf()-like sequences: +personal taste. This string is similar to $index_format, but has its own set of +printf(3)-like sequences: %n @@ -6914,17 +7378,17 @@ set of printf()-like sequences: (PGP only) -3.155. pgp_good_sign +3.156. pgp_good_sign Type: regular expression -Default: "" +Default: (empty) If you assign a text to this variable, then a PGP signature is only considered verified if the output from $pgp_verify_command contains the text. Use this variable if the exit code from the command is 0 even for bad signatures. (PGP only) -3.156. pgp_check_exit +3.157. pgp_check_exit Type: boolean Default: yes @@ -6932,15 +7396,15 @@ Default: yes If set, mutt will check the exit code of the PGP subprocess when signing or encrypting. A non-zero exit code means that the subprocess failed. (PGP only) -3.157. pgp_long_ids +3.158. pgp_long_ids Type: boolean Default: no -If set, use 64 bit PGP key IDs. Unset uses the normal 32 bit Key IDs. (PGP +If set, use 64 bit PGP key IDs, if unset use the normal 32 bit key IDs. (PGP only) -3.158. pgp_retainable_sigs +3.159. pgp_retainable_sigs Type: boolean Default: no @@ -6952,62 +7416,64 @@ This is useful for applications like encrypted and signed mailing lists, where the outer layer (multipart/encrypted) can be easily removed, while the inner multipart/signed part is retained. (PGP only) -3.159. pgp_autoinline +3.160. pgp_autoinline Type: boolean Default: no This option controls whether Mutt generates old-style inline (traditional) PGP encrypted or signed messages under certain circumstances. This can be -overridden by use of the pgp-menu, when inline is not required. +overridden by use of the pgp menu, when inline is not required. Note that Mutt might automatically use PGP/MIME for messages which consist of more than a single MIME part. Mutt can be configured to ask before sending PGP/ -MIME messages when inline (traditional) would not work. See also: `` -$pgp_mime_auto''. +MIME messages when inline (traditional) would not work. + +Also see the $pgp_mime_auto variable. -Also note that using the old-style PGP message format is stronglydeprecated. +Also note that using the old-style PGP message format is strongly deprecated. (PGP only) -3.160. pgp_replyinline +3.161. pgp_replyinline Type: boolean Default: no Setting this variable will cause Mutt to always attempt to create an inline (traditional) message when replying to a message which is PGP encrypted/signed -inline. This can be overridden by use of the pgp-menu, when inline is not +inline. This can be overridden by use of the pgp menu, when inline is not required. This option does not automatically detect if the (replied-to) message is inline; instead it relies on Mutt internals for previously checked/flagged messages. Note that Mutt might automatically use PGP/MIME for messages which consist of more than a single MIME part. Mutt can be configured to ask before sending PGP/ -MIME messages when inline (traditional) would not work. See also: `` -$pgp_mime_auto''. +MIME messages when inline (traditional) would not work. -Also note that using the old-style PGP message format is stronglydeprecated. +Also see the $pgp_mime_auto variable. + +Also note that using the old-style PGP message format is strongly deprecated. (PGP only) -3.161. pgp_show_unusable +3.162. pgp_show_unusable Type: boolean Default: yes If set, mutt will display non-usable keys on the PGP key selection menu. This includes keys which have been revoked, have expired, or have been marked as -``disabled'' by the user. (PGP only) +?disabled? by the user. (PGP only) -3.162. pgp_sign_as +3.163. pgp_sign_as Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) If you have more than one key pair, this option allows you to specify which of your private keys to use. It is recommended that you use the keyid form to -specify your key (e.g., ``0x00112233''). (PGP only) +specify your key (e.g. 0x00112233). (PGP only) -3.163. pgp_strict_enc +3.164. pgp_strict_enc Type: boolean Default: yes @@ -7017,7 +7483,7 @@ quoted-printable. Please note that unsetting this variable may lead to problems with non-verifyable PGP signatures, so only change this if you know what you are doing. (PGP only) -3.164. pgp_timeout +3.165. pgp_timeout Type: number Default: 300 @@ -7025,13 +7491,13 @@ Default: 300 The number of seconds after which a cached passphrase will expire if not used. (PGP only) -3.165. pgp_sort_keys +3.166. pgp_sort_keys Type: sort order Default: address -Specifies how the entries in the `pgp keys' menu are sorted. The following are -legal values: +Specifies how the entries in the pgp menu are sorted. The following are legal +values: address @@ -7049,10 +7515,10 @@ trust sort by the trust of the key -If you prefer reverse order of the above values, prefix it with `reverse-'. +If you prefer reverse order of the above values, prefix it with ?reverse-?. (PGP only) -3.166. pgp_mime_auto +3.167. pgp_mime_auto Type: quadoption Default: ask-yes @@ -7061,10 +7527,10 @@ This option controls whether Mutt will prompt you for automatically sending a (signed/encrypted) message using PGP/MIME when inline (traditional) fails (for any reason). -Also note that using the old-style PGP message format is stronglydeprecated. +Also note that using the old-style PGP message format is strongly deprecated. (PGP only) -3.167. pgp_auto_decode +3.168. pgp_auto_decode Type: boolean Default: no @@ -7073,18 +7539,18 @@ If set, mutt will automatically attempt to decrypt traditional PGP messages whenever the user performs an operation which ordinarily would result in the contents of the message being operated on. For example, if the user displays a pgp-traditional message which has not been manually checked with the -check-traditional-pgp function, mutt will automatically check the message for + function, mutt will automatically check the message for traditional pgp. -3.168. pgp_decode_command +3.169. pgp_decode_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This format strings specifies a command which is used to decode application/pgp attachments. -The PGP command formats have their own set of printf-like sequences: +The PGP command formats have their own set of printf(3)-like sequences: %p @@ -7109,118 +7575,154 @@ The PGP command formats have their own set of printf-like sequences: One or more key IDs. For examples on how to configure these formats for the various versions of PGP -which are floating around, see the pgp*.rc and gpg.rc files in the samples/ -subdirectory which has been installed on your system alongside the +which are floating around, see the pgp and gpg sample configuration files in +the samples/ subdirectory which has been installed on your system alongside the documentation. (PGP only) -3.169. pgp_getkeys_command +3.170. pgp_getkeys_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) -This command is invoked whenever mutt will need public key information. %r is -the only printf-like sequence used with this format. (PGP only) +This command is invoked whenever mutt will need public key information. Of the +sequences supported by $pgp_decode_command, %r is the only printf(3)-like +sequence used with this format. (PGP only) -3.170. pgp_verify_command +3.171. pgp_verify_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) + +This command is used to verify PGP signatures. -This command is used to verify PGP signatures. (PGP only) +This is a format string, see the $pgp_decode_command command for possible +printf(3)-like sequences. (PGP only) -3.171. pgp_decrypt_command +3.172. pgp_decrypt_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) -This command is used to decrypt a PGP encrypted message. (PGP only) +This command is used to decrypt a PGP encrypted message. -3.172. pgp_clearsign_command +This is a format string, see the $pgp_decode_command command for possible +printf(3)-like sequences. (PGP only) + +3.173. pgp_clearsign_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) + +This format is used to create a old-style ?clearsigned? PGP message. Note that +the use of this format is strongly deprecated. -This format is used to create a old-style "clearsigned" PGP message. Note that -the use of this format is stronglydeprecated. (PGP only) +This is a format string, see the $pgp_decode_command command for possible +printf(3)-like sequences. (PGP only) -3.173. pgp_sign_command +3.174. pgp_sign_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This command is used to create the detached PGP signature for a multipart/ -signed PGP/MIME body part. (PGP only) +signed PGP/MIME body part. -3.174. pgp_encrypt_sign_command +This is a format string, see the $pgp_decode_command command for possible +printf(3)-like sequences. (PGP only) + +3.175. pgp_encrypt_sign_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) + +This command is used to both sign and encrypt a body part. -This command is used to both sign and encrypt a body part. (PGP only) +This is a format string, see the $pgp_decode_command command for possible +printf(3)-like sequences. (PGP only) -3.175. pgp_encrypt_only_command +3.176. pgp_encrypt_only_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) -This command is used to encrypt a body part without signing it. (PGP only) +This command is used to encrypt a body part without signing it. -3.176. pgp_import_command +This is a format string, see the $pgp_decode_command command for possible +printf(3)-like sequences. (PGP only) + +3.177. pgp_import_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This command is used to import a key from a message into the user's public key -ring. (PGP only) +ring. + +This is a format string, see the $pgp_decode_command command for possible +printf(3)-like sequences. (PGP only) -3.177. pgp_export_command +3.178. pgp_export_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) -This command is used to export a public key from the user's key ring. (PGP -only) +This command is used to export a public key from the user's key ring. -3.178. pgp_verify_key_command +This is a format string, see the $pgp_decode_command command for possible +printf(3)-like sequences. (PGP only) + +3.179. pgp_verify_key_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This command is used to verify key information from the key selection menu. -(PGP only) -3.179. pgp_list_secring_command +This is a format string, see the $pgp_decode_command command for possible +printf(3)-like sequences. (PGP only) + +3.180. pgp_list_secring_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This command is used to list the secret key ring's contents. The output format -must be analogous to the one used by gpg --list-keys --with-colons. +must be analogous to the one used by: + +gpg --list-keys --with-colons. + This format is also generated by the pgpring utility which comes with mutt. -(PGP only) -3.180. pgp_list_pubring_command +This is a format string, see the $pgp_decode_command command for possible +printf(3)-like sequences. (PGP only) + +3.181. pgp_list_pubring_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This command is used to list the public key ring's contents. The output format -must be analogous to the one used by gpg --list-keys --with-colons. +must be analogous to the one used by + +gpg --list-keys --with-colons. + This format is also generated by the pgpring utility which comes with mutt. -(PGP only) -3.181. forward_decrypt +This is a format string, see the $pgp_decode_command command for possible +printf(3)-like sequences. (PGP only) + +3.182. forward_decrypt Type: boolean Default: yes -Controls the handling of encrypted messages when forwarding a message. When -set, the outer layer of encryption is stripped off. This variable is only used -if ``$mime_forward'' is set and ``$mime_forward_decode'' is unset. (PGP only) +Controls the handling of encrypted messages when forwarding a message. When set +, the outer layer of encryption is stripped off. This variable is only used if +$mime_forward is set and $mime_forward_decode is unset. (PGP only) -3.182. smime_timeout +3.183. smime_timeout Type: number Default: 300 @@ -7228,57 +7730,57 @@ Default: 300 The number of seconds after which a cached passphrase will expire if not used. (S/MIME only) -3.183. smime_encrypt_with +3.184. smime_encrypt_with Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This sets the algorithm that should be used for encryption. Valid choices are -"des", "des3", "rc2-40", "rc2-64", "rc2-128". If unset "3des" (TripleDES) is +?des?, ?des3?, ?rc2-40?, ?rc2-64?, ?rc2-128?. If unset, ?3des? (TripleDES) is used. (S/MIME only) -3.184. smime_keys +3.185. smime_keys Type: path -Default: "" +Default: (empty) -Since there is no pubring/secring as with PGP, mutt has to handle storage ad -retrieval of keys/certs by itself. This is very basic right now, and stores -keys and certificates in two different directories, both named as the -hash-value retrieved from OpenSSL. There is an index file which contains -mailbox-address keyid pair, and which can be manually edited. This one points -to the location of the private keys. (S/MIME only) +Since for S/MIME there is no pubring/secring as with PGP, mutt has to handle +storage and retrieval of keys/certs by itself. This is very basic right now, +and stores keys and certificates in two different directories, both named as +the hash-value retrieved from OpenSSL. There is an index file which contains +mailbox-address keyid pair, and which can be manually edited. This option +points to the location of the private keys. (S/MIME only) -3.185. smime_ca_location +3.186. smime_ca_location Type: path -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This variable contains the name of either a directory, or a file which contains trusted certificates for use with OpenSSL. (S/MIME only) -3.186. smime_certificates +3.187. smime_certificates Type: path -Default: "" +Default: (empty) -Since there is no pubring/secring as with PGP, mutt has to handle storage and -retrieval of keys by itself. This is very basic right now, and keys and -certificates are stored in two different directories, both named as the +Since for S/MIME there is no pubring/secring as with PGP, mutt has to handle +storage and retrieval of keys by itself. This is very basic right now, and keys +and certificates are stored in two different directories, both named as the hash-value retrieved from OpenSSL. There is an index file which contains -mailbox-address keyid pairs, and which can be manually edited. This one points -to the location of the certificates. (S/MIME only) +mailbox-address keyid pairs, and which can be manually edited. This option +points to the location of the certificates. (S/MIME only) -3.187. smime_decrypt_command +3.188. smime_decrypt_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This format string specifies a command which is used to decrypt application/ x-pkcs7-mime attachments. -The OpenSSL command formats have their own set of printf-like sequences similar -to PGP's: +The OpenSSL command formats have their own set of printf(3)-like sequences +similar to PGP's: %f @@ -7304,110 +7806,138 @@ to PGP's: %C CA location: Depending on whether $smime_ca_location points to a directory - or file, this expands to "-CApath $smime_ca_location" or "-CAfile - $smime_ca_location". + or file, this expands to ?-CApath $smime_ca_location? or ?-CAfile + $smime_ca_location?. For examples on how to configure these formats, see the smime.rc in the samples / subdirectory which has been installed on your system alongside the documentation. (S/MIME only) -3.188. smime_verify_command +3.189. smime_verify_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) -This command is used to verify S/MIME signatures of type multipart/signed. (S/ -MIME only) +This command is used to verify S/MIME signatures of type multipart/signed. + +This is a format string, see the $smime_decrypt_command command for possible +printf(3)-like sequences. (S/MIME only) -3.189. smime_verify_opaque_command +3.190. smime_verify_opaque_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This command is used to verify S/MIME signatures of type application/ -x-pkcs7-mime. (S/MIME only) +x-pkcs7-mime. + +This is a format string, see the $smime_decrypt_command command for possible +printf(3)-like sequences. (S/MIME only) -3.190. smime_sign_command +3.191. smime_sign_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This command is used to created S/MIME signatures of type multipart/signed, -which can be read by all mail clients. (S/MIME only) +which can be read by all mail clients. -3.191. smime_sign_opaque_command +This is a format string, see the $smime_decrypt_command command for possible +printf(3)-like sequences. (S/MIME only) + +3.192. smime_sign_opaque_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This command is used to created S/MIME signatures of type application/ x-pkcs7-signature, which can only be handled by mail clients supporting the S/ -MIME extension. (S/MIME only) +MIME extension. + +This is a format string, see the $smime_decrypt_command command for possible +printf(3)-like sequences. (S/MIME only) -3.192. smime_encrypt_command +3.193. smime_encrypt_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) -This command is used to create encrypted S/MIME messages. (S/MIME only) +This command is used to create encrypted S/MIME messages. -3.193. smime_pk7out_command +This is a format string, see the $smime_decrypt_command command for possible +printf(3)-like sequences. (S/MIME only) + +3.194. smime_pk7out_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This command is used to extract PKCS7 structures of S/MIME signatures, in order -to extract the public X509 certificate(s). (S/MIME only) +to extract the public X509 certificate(s). + +This is a format string, see the $smime_decrypt_command command for possible +printf(3)-like sequences. (S/MIME only) -3.194. smime_get_cert_command +3.195. smime_get_cert_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) -This command is used to extract X509 certificates from a PKCS7 structure. (S/ -MIME only) +This command is used to extract X509 certificates from a PKCS7 structure. + +This is a format string, see the $smime_decrypt_command command for possible +printf(3)-like sequences. (S/MIME only) -3.195. smime_get_signer_cert_command +3.196. smime_get_signer_cert_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This command is used to extract only the signers X509 certificate from a S/MIME signature, so that the certificate's owner may get compared to the email's -'From'-field. (S/MIME only) +?From:? field. + +This is a format string, see the $smime_decrypt_command command for possible +printf(3)-like sequences. (S/MIME only) -3.196. smime_import_cert_command +3.197. smime_import_cert_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) -This command is used to import a certificate via smime_keys. (S/MIME only) +This command is used to import a certificate via smime_keys. -3.197. smime_get_cert_email_command +This is a format string, see the $smime_decrypt_command command for possible +printf(3)-like sequences. (S/MIME only) + +3.198. smime_get_cert_email_command Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This command is used to extract the mail address(es) used for storing X509 certificates, and for verification purposes (to check whether the certificate -was issued for the sender's mailbox). (S/MIME only) +was issued for the sender's mailbox). + +This is a format string, see the $smime_decrypt_command command for possible +printf(3)-like sequences. (S/MIME only) -3.198. smime_default_key +3.199. smime_default_key Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This is the default key-pair to use for signing. This must be set to the keyid (the hash-value that OpenSSL generates) to work properly (S/MIME only) -3.199. ssl_client_cert +3.200. ssl_client_cert Type: path -Default: "" +Default: (empty) The file containing a client certificate and its associated private key. -3.200. ssl_force_tls +3.201. ssl_force_tls Type: boolean Default: no @@ -7415,9 +7945,9 @@ Default: no If this variable is set, Mutt will require that all connections to remote servers be encrypted. Furthermore it will attempt to negotiate TLS even if the server does not advertise the capability, since it would otherwise have to -abort the connection anyway. This option supersedes ``$ssl_starttls''. +abort the connection anyway. This option supersedes $ssl_starttls. -3.201. ssl_starttls +3.202. ssl_starttls Type: quadoption Default: yes @@ -7426,10 +7956,10 @@ If set (the default), mutt will attempt to use STARTTLS on servers advertising the capability. When unset, mutt will not attempt to use STARTTLS regardless of the server's capabilities. -3.202. certificate_file +3.203. certificate_file Type: path -Default: "~/.mutt_certificates" +Default: ??/.mutt_certificates? This variable specifies the file where the certificates you trust are saved. When an unknown certificate is encountered, you are asked if you accept it or @@ -7437,28 +7967,31 @@ not. If you accept it, the certificate can also be saved in this file and further connections are automatically accepted. You can also manually add CA certificates in this file. Any server certificate -that is signed with one of these CA certificates are also automatically +that is signed with one of these CA certificates is also automatically accepted. -Example: set certificate_file=~/.mutt/certificates +Example: + +set certificate_file=~/.mutt/certificates -3.203. ssl_usesystemcerts + +3.204. ssl_usesystemcerts Type: boolean Default: yes If set to yes, mutt will use CA certificates in the system-wide certificate -store when checking if server certificate is signed by a trusted CA. +store when checking if a server certificate is signed by a trusted CA. -3.204. entropy_file +3.205. entropy_file Type: path -Default: "" +Default: (empty) The file which includes random data that is used to initialize SSL library functions. -3.205. ssl_use_sslv2 +3.206. ssl_use_sslv2 Type: boolean Default: yes @@ -7466,7 +7999,7 @@ Default: yes This variables specifies whether to attempt to use SSLv2 in the SSL authentication process. -3.206. ssl_use_sslv3 +3.207. ssl_use_sslv3 Type: boolean Default: yes @@ -7474,7 +8007,7 @@ Default: yes This variables specifies whether to attempt to use SSLv3 in the SSL authentication process. -3.207. ssl_use_tlsv1 +3.208. ssl_use_tlsv1 Type: boolean Default: yes @@ -7482,7 +8015,7 @@ Default: yes This variables specifies whether to attempt to use TLSv1 in the SSL authentication process. -3.208. ssl_min_dh_prime_bits +3.209. ssl_min_dh_prime_bits Type: number Default: 0 @@ -7491,71 +8024,76 @@ This variable specifies the minimum acceptable prime size (in bits) for use in any Diffie-Hellman key exchange. A value of 0 will use the default from the GNUTLS library. -3.209. ssl_ca_certificates_file +3.210. ssl_ca_certificates_file Type: path -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This variable specifies a file containing trusted CA certificates. Any server -certificate that is signed with one of these CA certificates are also +certificate that is signed with one of these CA certificates is also automatically accepted. -Example: set ssl_ca_certificates_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt +Example: + +set ssl_ca_certificates_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt -3.210. pipe_split + +3.211. pipe_split Type: boolean Default: no -Used in connection with the pipe-message command and the ``tag- prefix'' -operator. If this variable is unset, when piping a list of tagged messages Mutt -will concatenate the messages and will pipe them as a single folder. When set, -Mutt will pipe the messages one by one. In both cases the messages are piped in -the current sorted order, and the ``$pipe_sep'' separator is added after each -message. +Used in connection with the function following . If +this variable is unset, when piping a list of tagged messages Mutt will +concatenate the messages and will pipe them all concatenated. When set, Mutt +will pipe the messages one by one. In both cases the messages are piped in the +current sorted order, and the $pipe_sep separator is added after each message. -3.211. pipe_decode +3.212. pipe_decode Type: boolean Default: no -Used in connection with the pipe-message command. When unset, Mutt will pipe +Used in connection with the command. When unset, Mutt will pipe the messages without any preprocessing. When set, Mutt will weed headers and -will attempt to PGP/MIME decode the messages first. +will attempt to decode the messages first. -3.212. pipe_sep +3.213. pipe_sep Type: string -Default: "\n" +Default: ?\n? The separator to add between messages when piping a list of tagged messages to an external Unix command. -3.213. pop_authenticators +3.214. pop_authenticators Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This is a colon-delimited list of authentication methods mutt may attempt to use to log in to an POP server, in the order mutt should try them. -Authentication methods are either 'user', 'apop' or any SASL mechanism, eg -'digest-md5', 'gssapi' or 'cram-md5'. This parameter is case-insensitive. If -this parameter is unset (the default) mutt will try all available methods, in -order from most-secure to least-secure. +Authentication methods are either ?user?, ?apop? or any SASL mechanism, eg +?digest-md5?, ?gssapi? or ?cram-md5?. This option is case-insensitive. If this +option is unset (the default) mutt will try all available methods, in order +from most-secure to least-secure. + +Example: -Example: set pop_authenticators="digest-md5:apop:user" +set pop_authenticators="digest-md5:apop:user" -3.214. pop_auth_try_all + +3.215. pop_auth_try_all Type: boolean Default: yes -If set, Mutt will try all available methods. When unset, Mutt will only fall -back to other authentication methods if the previous methods are unavailable. -If a method is available but authentication fails, Mutt will not connect to the -POP server. +If set, Mutt will try all available authentication methods. When unset, Mutt +will only fall back to other authentication methods if the previous methods are +unavailable. If a method is available but authentication fails, Mutt will not +connect to the POP server. -3.215. pop_checkinterval +3.216. pop_checkinterval Type: number Default: 60 @@ -7563,137 +8101,147 @@ Default: 60 This variable configures how often (in seconds) mutt should look for new mail in the currently selected mailbox if it is a POP mailbox. -3.216. pop_delete +3.217. pop_delete Type: quadoption Default: ask-no If set, Mutt will delete successfully downloaded messages from the POP server -when using the fetch-mail function. When unset, Mutt will download messages but -also leave them on the POP server. +when using the function. When unset, Mutt will download messages +but also leave them on the POP server. -3.217. pop_host +3.218. pop_host Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) -The name of your POP server for the fetch-mail function. You can also specify +The name of your POP server for the function. You can also specify an alternative port, username and password, ie: [pop[s]://][username[:password]@]popserver[:port] -3.218. pop_last + +where ?[...]? denotes an optional part. + +3.219. pop_last Type: boolean Default: no -If this variable is set, mutt will try to use the "LAST" POP command for -retrieving only unread messages from the POP server when using the fetch-mail +If this variable is set, mutt will try to use the ?LAST? POP command for +retrieving only unread messages from the POP server when using the function. -3.219. pop_reconnect +3.220. pop_reconnect Type: quadoption Default: ask-yes -Controls whether or not Mutt will try to reconnect to POP server if the +Controls whether or not Mutt will try to reconnect to the POP server if the connection is lost. -3.220. pop_user +3.221. pop_user Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) Your login name on the POP server. This variable defaults to your user name on the local machine. -3.221. pop_pass +3.222. pop_pass Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) Specifies the password for your POP account. If unset, Mutt will prompt you for -your password when you open POP mailbox. Warning: you should only use this -option when you are on a fairly secure machine, because the superuser can read -your muttrc even if you are the only one who can read the file. +your password when you open a POP mailbox. + +Warning: you should only use this option when you are on a fairly secure +machine, because the superuser can read your muttrc even if you are the only +one who can read the file. -3.222. post_indent_string +3.223. post_indent_string Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) -Similar to the ``$attribution'' variable, Mutt will append this string after -the inclusion of a message which is being replied to. +Similar to the $attribution variable, Mutt will append this string after the +inclusion of a message which is being replied to. -3.223. postpone +3.224. postpone Type: quadoption Default: ask-yes -Controls whether or not messages are saved in the ``$postponed'' mailbox when -you elect not to send immediately. Also see the ``$recall'' variable. +Controls whether or not messages are saved in the $postponed mailbox when you +elect not to send immediately. -3.224. postponed +Also see the $recall variable. + +3.225. postponed Type: path -Default: "~/postponed" +Default: ??/postponed? -Mutt allows you to indefinitely ``postpone sending a message'' which you are +Mutt allows you to indefinitely ?postpone sending a message? which you are editing. When you choose to postpone a message, Mutt saves it in the mailbox -specified by this variable. Also see the ``$postpone'' variable. +specified by this variable. + +Also see the $postpone variable. -3.225. preconnect +3.226. preconnect Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) If set, a shell command to be executed if mutt fails to establish a connection to the server. This is useful for setting up secure connections, e.g. with ssh (1). If the command returns a nonzero status, mutt gives up opening the server. Example: -preconnect="ssh -f -q -L 1234:mailhost.net:143 mailhost.net sleep 20 < /dev/ -null > /dev/null" +set preconnect="ssh -f -q -L 1234:mailhost.net:143 mailhost.net \ +sleep 20 < /dev/null > /dev/null" -Mailbox 'foo' on mailhost.net can now be reached as '{localhost:1234}foo'. -NOTE: For this example to work, you must be able to log in to the remote +Mailbox ?foo? on ?mailhost.net? can now be reached as ?{localhost:1234}foo?. + +Note: For this example to work, you must be able to log in to the remote machine without having to enter a password. -3.226. print +3.227. print Type: quadoption Default: ask-no -Controls whether or not Mutt really prints messages. This is set to ask-no by -default, because some people accidentally hit ``p'' often (like me). +Controls whether or not Mutt really prints messages. This is set to ?ask-no? by +default, because some people accidentally hit ?p? often. -3.227. print_command +3.228. print_command Type: path -Default: "lpr" +Default: ?lpr? This specifies the command pipe that should be used to print messages. -3.228. print_decode +3.229. print_decode Type: boolean Default: yes -Used in connection with the print-message command. If this option is set, the +Used in connection with the command. If this option is set, the message is decoded before it is passed to the external command specified by $print_command. If this option is unset, no processing will be applied to the message when printing it. The latter setting may be useful if you are using some advanced printer filter which is able to properly format e-mail messages for printing. -3.229. print_split +3.230. print_split Type: boolean Default: no -Used in connection with the print-message command. If this option is set, the +Used in connection with the command. If this option is set, the command specified by $print_command is executed once for each message which is to be printed. If this option is unset, the command specified by $print_command is executed only once, and all the messages are concatenated, with a form feed @@ -7702,32 +8250,31 @@ as the message separator. Those who use the enscript(1) program's mail-printing mode will most likely want to set this option. -3.230. prompt_after +3.231. prompt_after Type: boolean Default: yes -If you use an external ``$pager'', setting this variable will cause Mutt to -prompt you for a command when the pager exits rather than returning to the -index menu. If unset, Mutt will return to the index menu when the external -pager exits. +If you use an external $pager, setting this variable will cause Mutt to prompt +you for a command when the pager exits rather than returning to the index menu. +If unset, Mutt will return to the index menu when the external pager exits. -3.231. query_command +3.232. query_command Type: path -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This specifies the command that mutt will use to make external address queries. -The string should contain a %s, which will be substituted with the query string -the user types. See ``query'' for more information. +The string should contain a ?%s?, which will be substituted with the query +string the user types. See ?query? for more information. -3.232. query_format +3.233. query_format Type: string -Default: "%4c %t %-25.25a %-25.25n %?e?(%e)?" +Default: ?%4c %t %-25.25a %-25.25n %?e?(%e)?? -This variable describes the format of the `query' menu. The following -printf-style sequences are understood: +This variable describes the format of the ?query? menu. The following printf(3) +-style sequences are understood: %a @@ -7747,116 +8294,121 @@ printf-style sequences are understood: %t - ``*'' if current entry is tagged, a space otherwise + ?*? if current entry is tagged, a space otherwise %>X - right justify the rest of the string and pad with "X" + right justify the rest of the string and pad with ?X? %|X - pad to the end of the line with "X" + pad to the end of the line with ?X? %*X - soft-fill with character "X" as pad + soft-fill with character ?X? as pad -For an explanation of `soft-fill', see the ``$index_format'' documentation. +For an explanation of ?soft-fill?, see the $index_format documentation. -* = can be optionally printed if nonzero, see the ``$status_format'' -documentation. +* = can be optionally printed if nonzero, see the $status_format documentation. -3.233. quit +3.234. quit Type: quadoption Default: yes -This variable controls whether ``quit'' and ``exit'' actually quit from mutt. -If it set to yes, they do quit, if it is set to no, they have no effect, and if +This variable controls whether ?quit? and ?exit? actually quit from mutt. If +this option is set, they do quit, if it is unset, they have no effect, and if it is set to ask-yes or ask-no, you are prompted for confirmation when you try to quit. -3.234. quote_regexp +3.235. quote_regexp Type: regular expression -Default: "^([ \t]*[|>:}#])+" +Default: ?^([ \t]*[|>:}#])+? + +A regular expression used in the internal pager to determine quoted sections of +text in the body of a message. Quoted text may be filtered out using the + command, or colored according to the ?color quoted? family of +directives. -A regular expression used in the internal-pager to determine quoted sections of -text in the body of a message. +Higher levels of quoting may be colored differently (?color quoted1?, ?color +quoted2?, etc.). The quoting level is determined by removing the last character +from the matched text and recursively reapplying the regular expression until +it fails to produce a match. -Note: In order to use the quotedx patterns in the internal pager, you need to -set this to a regular expression that matches exactly the quote characters at -the beginning of quoted lines. +Match detection may be overridden by the $smileys regular expression. -3.235. read_inc +3.236. read_inc Type: number Default: 10 If set to a value greater than 0, Mutt will display which message it is currently on when reading a mailbox or when performing search actions such as -search and limit. The message is printed after read_inc messages have been read -or searched (e.g., if set to 25, Mutt will print a message when it is at +search and limit. The message is printed after this many messages have been +read or searched (e.g., if set to 25, Mutt will print a message when it is at message 25, and then again when it gets to message 50). This variable is meant to indicate progress when reading or searching large mailboxes which may take some time. When set to 0, only a single message will appear before the reading the mailbox. -Also see the ``$write_inc'' variable and the ``Tuning'' section of the manual -for performance considerations. +Also see the $write_inc, $net_inc and $time_inc variables and the ?tuning? +section of the manual for performance considerations. -3.236. read_only +3.237. read_only Type: boolean Default: no If set, all folders are opened in read-only mode. -3.237. realname +3.238. realname Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) -This variable specifies what "real" or "personal" name should be used when +This variable specifies what ?real? or ?personal? name should be used when sending messages. By default, this is the GECOS field from /etc/passwd. Note that this variable will not be used when the user has set a real name in the $from variable. -3.238. recall +3.239. recall Type: quadoption Default: ask-yes Controls whether or not Mutt recalls postponed messages when composing a new -message. Also see ``$postponed''. +message. + +Setting this variable to is not generally useful, and thus not recommended. -Setting this variable to ``yes'' is not generally useful, and thus not -recommended. +Also see $postponed variable. -3.239. record +3.240. record Type: path -Default: "~/sent" +Default: ??/sent? This specifies the file into which your outgoing messages should be appended. (This is meant as the primary method for saving a copy of your messages, but -another way to do this is using the ``my_hdr'' command to create a Bcc: field +another way to do this is using the ?my_hdr? command to create a ?Bcc:? field with your email address in it.) -The value of $record is overridden by the ``$force_name'' and ``$save_name'' -variables, and the ``fcc-hook'' command. +The value of $record is overridden by the $force_name and $save_name variables, +and the ?fcc-hook? command. -3.240. reply_regexp +3.241. reply_regexp Type: regular expression -Default: "^(re([\[0-9\]+])*|aw):[ \t]*" +Default: ?^(re([\[0-9\]+])*|aw):[ \t]*? A regular expression used to recognize reply messages when threading and replying. The default value corresponds to the English "Re:" and the German "Aw:". -3.241. reply_self +3.242. reply_self Type: boolean Default: no @@ -7864,7 +8416,9 @@ Default: no If unset and you are replying to a message sent by you, Mutt will assume that you want to reply to the recipients of that message rather than to yourself. -3.242. reply_to +Also see the ?alternates? command. + +3.243. reply_to Type: quadoption Default: ask-yes @@ -7875,7 +8429,7 @@ address in the From: header field instead. This option is useful for reading a mailing list that sets the Reply-To: header field to the list address and you want to send a private message to the author of a message. -3.243. resolve +3.244. resolve Type: boolean Default: yes @@ -7884,12 +8438,12 @@ When set, the cursor will be automatically advanced to the next (possibly undeleted) message whenever a command that modifies the current message is executed. -3.244. reverse_alias +3.245. reverse_alias Type: boolean Default: no -This variable controls whether or not Mutt will display the "personal" name +This variable controls whether or not Mutt will display the ?personal? name from your aliases in the index menu if it finds an alias that matches the message's sender. For example, if you have the following alias: @@ -7901,11 +8455,11 @@ and then you receive mail which contains the following header: From: abd30425@somewhere.net -It would be displayed in the index menu as ``Joe User'' instead of -``abd30425@somewhere.net.'' This is useful when the person's e-mail address is -not human friendly (like CompuServe addresses). +It would be displayed in the index menu as ?Joe User? instead of +?abd30425@somewhere.net.? This is useful when the person's e-mail address is +not human friendly. -3.245. reverse_name +3.246. reverse_name Type: boolean Default: no @@ -7914,90 +8468,97 @@ It may sometimes arrive that you receive mail to a certain machine, move the messages to another machine, and reply to some the messages from there. If this variable is set, the default From: line of the reply messages is built using the address where you received the messages you are replying to if that address -matches your alternates. If the variable is unset, or the address that would be -used doesn't match your alternates, the From: line will use your address on the -current machine. +matches your ?alternates?. If the variable is unset, or the address that would +be used doesn't match your ?alternates?, the From: line will use your address +on the current machine. -3.246. reverse_realname +Also see the ?alternates? command. + +3.247. reverse_realname Type: boolean Default: yes -This variable fine-tunes the behaviour of the reverse_name feature. When it is +This variable fine-tunes the behaviour of the $reverse_name feature. When it is set, mutt will use the address from incoming messages as-is, possibly including eventual real names. When it is unset, mutt will override any such real names -with the setting of the realname variable. +with the setting of the $realname variable. -3.247. rfc2047_parameters +3.248. rfc2047_parameters Type: boolean Default: no -When this variable is set, Mutt will decode RFC-2047-encoded MIME parameters. +When this variable is set, Mutt will decode RFC2047-encoded MIME parameters. You want to set this variable when mutt suggests you to save attachments to -files named like this: =?iso-8859-1?Q?file=5F=E4=5F991116=2Ezip?= +files named like: + +=?iso-8859-1?Q?file=5F=E4=5F991116=2Ezip?= + + +When this variable is set interactively, the change won't be active until you +change folders. -When this variable is set interactively, the change doesn't have the desired -effect before you have changed folders. +Note that this use of RFC2047's encoding is explicitly prohibited by the +standard, but nevertheless encountered in the wild. -Note that this use of RFC 2047's encoding is explicitly, prohibited by the -standard, but nevertheless encountered in the wild. Also note that setting this -parameter will not have the effect that mutt generates this kind of encoding. -Instead, mutt will unconditionally use the encoding specified in RFC 2231. +Also note that setting this parameter will not have the effect that mutt +generates this kind of encoding. Instead, mutt will unconditionally use the +encoding specified in RFC2231. -3.248. save_address +3.249. save_address Type: boolean Default: no If set, mutt will take the sender's full address when choosing a default folder -for saving a mail. If ``$save_name'' or ``$force_name'' is set too, the -selection of the fcc folder will be changed as well. +for saving a mail. If $save_name or $force_name is set too, the selection of +the Fcc folder will be changed as well. -3.249. save_empty +3.250. save_empty Type: boolean Default: yes When unset, mailboxes which contain no saved messages will be removed when -closed (the exception is ``$spoolfile'' which is never removed). If set, -mailboxes are never removed. +closed (the exception is $spoolfile which is never removed). If set, mailboxes +are never removed. Note: This only applies to mbox and MMDF folders, Mutt does not delete MH and Maildir directories. -3.250. save_history +3.251. save_history Type: number Default: 0 -This variable controls the size of the history saved in the ``$history_file'' -file. +This variable controls the size of the history (per category) saved in the +$history_file file. -3.251. save_name +3.252. save_name Type: boolean Default: no This variable controls how copies of outgoing messages are saved. When set, a check is made to see if a mailbox specified by the recipient address exists -(this is done by searching for a mailbox in the ``$folder'' directory with the +(this is done by searching for a mailbox in the $folder directory with the username part of the recipient address). If the mailbox exists, the outgoing -message will be saved to that mailbox, otherwise the message is saved to the `` -$record'' mailbox. +message will be saved to that mailbox, otherwise the message is saved to the +$record mailbox. -Also see the ``$force_name'' variable. +Also see the $force_name variable. -3.252. score +3.253. score Type: boolean Default: yes When this variable is unset, scoring is turned off. This can be useful to -selectively disable scoring for certain folders when the `` -$score_threshold_delete'' variable and friends are used. +selectively disable scoring for certain folders when the +$score_threshold_delete variable and related are used. -3.253. score_threshold_delete +3.254. score_threshold_delete Type: number Default: -1 @@ -8007,7 +8568,7 @@ this variable are automatically marked for deletion by mutt. Since mutt scores are always greater than or equal to zero, the default setting of this variable will never mark a message for deletion. -3.254. score_threshold_flag +3.255. score_threshold_flag Type: number Default: 9999 @@ -8015,7 +8576,7 @@ Default: 9999 Messages which have been assigned a score greater than or equal to this variable's value are automatically marked "flagged". -3.255. score_threshold_read +3.256. score_threshold_read Type: number Default: -1 @@ -8025,36 +8586,36 @@ this variable are automatically marked as read by mutt. Since mutt scores are always greater than or equal to zero, the default setting of this variable will never mark a message read. -3.256. send_charset +3.257. send_charset Type: string -Default: "us-ascii:iso-8859-1:utf-8" +Default: ?us-ascii:iso-8859-1:utf-8? A colon-delimited list of character sets for outgoing messages. Mutt will use the first character set into which the text can be converted exactly. If your -``$charset'' is not iso-8859-1 and recipients may not understand UTF-8, it is +$charset is not ?iso-8859-1? and recipients may not understand ?UTF-8?, it is advisable to include in the list an appropriate widely used standard character -set (such as iso-8859-2, koi8-r or iso-2022-jp) either instead of or after -"iso-8859-1". +set (such as ?iso-8859-2?, ?koi8-r? or ?iso-2022-jp?) either instead of or +after ?iso-8859-1?. -In case the text cannot be converted into one of these exactly, mutt uses `` -$charset'' as a fallback. +In case the text cannot be converted into one of these exactly, mutt uses +$charset as a fallback. -3.257. sendmail +3.258. sendmail Type: path -Default: "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi" +Default: ?/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi? Specifies the program and arguments used to deliver mail sent by Mutt. Mutt expects that the specified program interprets additional arguments as recipient addresses. -3.258. sendmail_wait +3.259. sendmail_wait Type: number Default: 0 -Specifies the number of seconds to wait for the ``$sendmail'' process to finish +Specifies the number of seconds to wait for the $sendmail process to finish before giving up and putting delivery in the background. Mutt interprets the value of this variable as follows: @@ -8075,27 +8636,27 @@ Note that if you specify a value other than 0, the output of the child process will be put in a temporary file. If there is some error, you will be informed as to where to find the output. -3.259. shell +3.260. shell Type: path -Default: "" +Default: (empty) Command to use when spawning a subshell. By default, the user's login shell from /etc/passwd is used. -3.260. sig_dashes +3.261. sig_dashes Type: boolean Default: yes -If set, a line containing ``-- '' will be inserted before your ``$signature''. -It is strongly recommended that you not unset this variable unless your -``signature'' contains just your name. The reason for this is because many -software packages use ``-- \n'' to detect your signature. For example, Mutt has -the ability to highlight the signature in a different color in the builtin -pager. +If set, a line containing ?-- ? (note the trailing space) will be inserted +before your $signature. It is strongly recommended that you not unset this +variable unless your signature contains just your name. The reason for this is +because many software packages use ?-- \n? to detect your signature. For +example, Mutt has the ability to highlight the signature in a different color +in the builtin pager. -3.261. sig_on_top +3.262. sig_on_top Type: boolean Default: no @@ -8105,48 +8666,48 @@ is strongly recommended that you do not set this variable unless you really know what you are doing, and are prepared to take some heat from netiquette guardians. -3.262. signature +3.263. signature Type: path -Default: "~/.signature" +Default: ??/.signature? Specifies the filename of your signature, which is appended to all outgoing -messages. If the filename ends with a pipe (``|''), it is assumed that filename -is a shell command and input should be read from its stdout. +messages. If the filename ends with a pipe (?|?), it is assumed that filename +is a shell command and input should be read from its standard output. -3.263. simple_search +3.264. simple_search Type: string -Default: "~f %s | ~s %s" +Default: ??f %s | ?s %s? Specifies how Mutt should expand a simple search into a real search pattern. A -simple search is one that does not contain any of the ~ operators. See `` -patterns'' for more information on search patterns. +simple search is one that does not contain any of the ??? pattern operators. +See ?patterns? for more information on search patterns. -For example, if you simply type joe at a search or limit prompt, Mutt will -automatically expand it to the value specified by this variable. For the -default value it would be: +For example, if you simply type ?joe? at a search or limit prompt, Mutt will +automatically expand it to the value specified by this variable by replacing +?%s? with the supplied string. For the default value, ?joe? would be expanded +to: ??f joe | ?s joe?. -~f joe | ~s joe - -3.264. smart_wrap +3.265. smart_wrap Type: boolean Default: yes Controls the display of lines longer than the screen width in the internal pager. If set, long lines are wrapped at a word boundary. If unset, lines are -simply wrapped at the screen edge. Also see the ``$markers'' variable. +simply wrapped at the screen edge. Also see the $markers variable. -3.265. smileys +3.266. smileys Type: regular expression -Default: "(>From )|(:[-^]?[][)(><}{|/DP])" +Default: ?(>From )|(:[-^]?[][)(><}{|/DP])? -The pager uses this variable to catch some common false positives of `` -$quote_regexp'', most notably smileys in the beginning of a line +The pager uses this variable to catch some common false positives of +$quote_regexp, most notably smileys and not consider a line quoted text if it +also matches $smileys. This mostly happens at the beginning of a line. -3.266. sleep_time +3.267. sleep_time Type: number Default: 1 @@ -8156,97 +8717,116 @@ messages, while moving from folder to folder and after expunging messages from the current folder. The default is to pause one second, so a value of zero for this option suppresses the pause. -3.267. smtp_authenticators +3.268. smtp_authenticators Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This is a colon-delimited list of authentication methods mutt may attempt to use to log in to an SMTP server, in the order mutt should try them. -Authentication methods are any SASL mechanism, eg ``digest-md5'', ``gssapi'' or -``cram-md5''. This parameter is case-insensitive. If this parameter is unset -(the default) mutt will try all available methods, in order from most-secure to -least-secure. +Authentication methods are any SASL mechanism, eg ?digest-md5?, ?gssapi? or +?cram-md5?. This option is case-insensitive. If it is ?unset? (the default) +mutt will try all available methods, in order from most-secure to least-secure. + +Example: -Example: set smtp_authenticators="digest-md5:cram-md5" +set smtp_authenticators="digest-md5:cram-md5" -3.268. smtp_pass + +3.269. smtp_pass Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) Specifies the password for your SMTP account. If unset, Mutt will prompt you -for your password when you first send mail via SMTP. See ``smtp_url'' to -configure mutt to send mail via SMTP. Warning: you should only use this option -when you are on a fairly secure machine, because the superuser can read your -muttrc even if you are the only one who can read the file. +for your password when you first send mail via SMTP. See $smtp_url to configure +mutt to send mail via SMTP. + +Warning: you should only use this option when you are on a fairly secure +machine, because the superuser can read your muttrc even if you are the only +one who can read the file. -3.269. smtp_url +3.270. smtp_url Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) -Defines the SMTP ``smart'' host where sent messages should relayed for -delivery. This should take the form of an SMTP URL, eg: +Defines the SMTP smarthost where sent messages should relayed for delivery. +This should take the form of an SMTP URL, eg: smtp[s]://[user[:pass]@]host[:port]/ -Setting this variable overrides the value of the ``$sendmail'' variable. -3.270. sort +... where ?[...]? denotes an optional part. Setting this variable overrides the +value of the $sendmail variable. + +3.271. sort Type: sort order Default: date -Specifies how to sort messages in the index menu. Valid values are: +Specifies how to sort messages in the ?index? menu. Valid values are: + + * date or date-sent + + * date-received + + * from + + * mailbox-order (unsorted) - date or date-sent - date-received - from - mailbox-order (unsorted) - score - size - spam - subject - threads - to + * score + * size -You may optionally use the reverse- prefix to specify reverse sorting order -(example: set sort=reverse-date-sent). + * spam -3.271. sort_alias + * subject + + * threads + + * to + +You may optionally use the ?reverse-? prefix to specify reverse sorting order +(example: ?set sort=reverse-date-sent?). + +3.272. sort_alias Type: sort order Default: alias -Specifies how the entries in the `alias' menu are sorted. The following are +Specifies how the entries in the ?alias? menu are sorted. The following are legal values: - address (sort alphabetically by email address) - alias (sort alphabetically by alias name) - unsorted (leave in order specified in .muttrc) + * address (sort alphabetically by email address) + * alias (sort alphabetically by alias name) -3.272. sort_aux + * unsorted (leave in order specified in .muttrc) + +3.273. sort_aux Type: sort order Default: date When sorting by threads, this variable controls how threads are sorted in relation to other threads, and how the branches of the thread trees are sorted. -This can be set to any value that ``$sort'' can, except threads (in that case, -mutt will just use date-sent). You can also specify the last- prefix in -addition to the reverse- prefix, but last- must come after reverse-. The last- -prefix causes messages to be sorted against its siblings by which has the last -descendant, using the rest of sort_aux as an ordering. For instance, set -sort_aux=last- date-received would mean that if a new message is received in a -thread, that thread becomes the last one displayed (or the first, if you have -set sort=reverse-threads.) Note: For reversed ``$sort'' order $sort_aux is -reversed again (which is not the right thing to do, but kept to not break any -existing configuration setting). - -3.273. sort_browser +This can be set to any value that $sort can, except ?threads? (in that case, +mutt will just use ?date-sent?). You can also specify the ?last-? prefix in +addition to the ?reverse-? prefix, but ?last-? must come after ?reverse-?. The +?last-? prefix causes messages to be sorted against its siblings by which has +the last descendant, using the rest of $sort_aux as an ordering. For instance, + +set sort_aux=last-date-received + + +would mean that if a new message is received in a thread, that thread becomes +the last one displayed (or the first, if you have ?set sort=reverse-threads?.) + +Note: For reversed $sort order $sort_aux is reversed again (which is not the +right thing to do, but kept to not break any existing configuration setting). + +3.274. sort_browser Type: sort order Default: alpha @@ -8254,70 +8834,72 @@ Default: alpha Specifies how to sort entries in the file browser. By default, the entries are sorted alphabetically. Valid values: - alpha (alphabetically) - date - size - unsorted + * alpha (alphabetically) + + * date + + * size + * unsorted -You may optionally use the reverse- prefix to specify reverse sorting order -(example: set sort_browser=reverse-date). +You may optionally use the ?reverse-? prefix to specify reverse sorting order +(example: ?set sort_browser=reverse-date?). -3.274. sort_re +3.275. sort_re Type: boolean Default: yes -This variable is only useful when sorting by threads with ``$strict_threads'' -unset. In that case, it changes the heuristic mutt uses to thread messages by -subject. With sort_re set, mutt will only attach a message as the child of +This variable is only useful when sorting by threads with $strict_threads unset +. In that case, it changes the heuristic mutt uses to thread messages by +subject. With $sort_re set, mutt will only attach a message as the child of another message by subject if the subject of the child message starts with a -substring matching the setting of ``$reply_regexp''. With sort_re unset, mutt -will attach the message whether or not this is the case, as long as the non-`` -$reply_regexp'' parts of both messages are identical. +substring matching the setting of $reply_regexp. With $sort_re unset, mutt will +attach the message whether or not this is the case, as long as the non- +$reply_regexp parts of both messages are identical. -3.275. spam_separator +3.276. spam_separator Type: string -Default: "," +Default: ?,? -``spam_separator'' controls what happens when multiple spam headers are -matched: if unset, each successive header will overwrite any previous matches -value for the spam label. If set, each successive match will append to the -previous, using ``spam_separator'' as a separator. +This variable controls what happens when multiple spam headers are matched: if +unset, each successive header will overwrite any previous matches value for the +spam label. If set, each successive match will append to the previous, using +this variable's value as a separator. -3.276. spoolfile +3.277. spoolfile Type: path -Default: "" +Default: (empty) If your spool mailbox is in a non-default place where Mutt cannot find it, you can specify its location with this variable. Mutt will automatically set this variable to the value of the environment variable $MAIL if it is not set. -3.277. status_chars +3.278. status_chars Type: string -Default: "-*%A" - -Controls the characters used by the "%r" indicator in ``$status_format''. The -first character is used when the mailbox is unchanged. The second is used when -the mailbox has been changed, and it needs to be resynchronized. The third is -used if the mailbox is in read-only mode, or if the mailbox will not be written -when exiting that mailbox (You can toggle whether to write changes to a mailbox -with the toggle-write operation, bound by default to "%"). The fourth is used -to indicate that the current folder has been opened in attach- message mode +Default: ?-*%A? + +Controls the characters used by the ?%r? indicator in $status_format. The first +character is used when the mailbox is unchanged. The second is used when the +mailbox has been changed, and it needs to be resynchronized. The third is used +if the mailbox is in read-only mode, or if the mailbox will not be written when +exiting that mailbox (You can toggle whether to write changes to a mailbox with +the operation, bound by default to ?%?). The fourth is used to +indicate that the current folder has been opened in attach- message mode (Certain operations like composing a new mail, replying, forwarding, etc. are not permitted in this mode). -3.278. status_format +3.279. status_format Type: string -Default: "-%r-Mutt: %f [Msgs:%?M?%M/?%m%?n? New:%n?%?o? Old:%o?%?d? Del:%d?%?F? -Flag:%F?%?t? Tag:%t?%?p? Post:%p?%?b? Inc:%b?%?l? %l?]---(%s/%S)-%>-(%P)---" +Default: ?-%r-Mutt: %f [Msgs:%?M?%M/?%m%?n? New:%n?%?o? Old:%o?%?d? Del:%d?%?F? + Flag:%F?%?t? Tag:%t?%?p? Post:%p?%?b? Inc:%b?%?l? %l?]---(%s/%S)-%>-(%P)---? -Controls the format of the status line displayed in the index menu. This string -is similar to ``$index_format'', but has its own set of printf()-like +Controls the format of the status line displayed in the ?index? menu. This +string is similar to $index_format, but has its own set of printf(3)-like sequences: %b @@ -8404,17 +8986,17 @@ sequences: %>X - right justify the rest of the string and pad with "X" + right justify the rest of the string and pad with ?X? %|X - pad to the end of the line with "X" + pad to the end of the line with ?X? %*X - soft-fill with character "X" as pad + soft-fill with character ?X? as pad -For an explanation of `soft-fill', see the ``$index_format'' documentation. +For an explanation of ?soft-fill?, see the $index_format documentation. * = can be optionally printed if nonzero @@ -8432,7 +9014,9 @@ may contain other sequences as well as normal text, but you may not nest optional strings. Here is an example illustrating how to optionally print the number of new -messages in a mailbox: %?n?%n new messages.? +messages in a mailbox: + +%?n?%n new messages.? You can also switch between two strings using the following construct: @@ -8441,56 +9025,57 @@ You can also switch between two strings using the following construct: If the value of sequence_char is non-zero, if_string will be expanded, otherwise else_string will be expanded. -You can force the result of any printf-like sequence to be lowercase by -prefixing the sequence character with an underscore (_) sign. For example, if -you want to display the local hostname in lowercase, you would use: %_h +You can force the result of any printf(3)-like sequence to be lowercase by +prefixing the sequence character with an underscore (?_?) sign. For example, if +you want to display the local hostname in lowercase, you would use: ?%_h?. -If you prefix the sequence character with a colon (:) character, mutt will +If you prefix the sequence character with a colon (?:?) character, mutt will replace any dots in the expansion by underscores. This might be helpful with IMAP folders that don't like dots in folder names. -3.279. status_on_top +3.280. status_on_top Type: boolean Default: no -Setting this variable causes the ``status bar'' to be displayed on the first -line of the screen rather than near the bottom. +Setting this variable causes the ?status bar? to be displayed on the first line +of the screen rather than near the bottom. If $help is set, too it'll be placed +at the bottom. -3.280. strict_threads +3.281. strict_threads Type: boolean Default: no -If set, threading will only make use of the ``In-Reply-To'' and ``References'' -fields when you ``$sort'' by message threads. By default, messages with the -same subject are grouped together in ``pseudo threads.''. This may not always -be desirable, such as in a personal mailbox where you might have several -unrelated messages with the subject ``hi'' which will get grouped together. See -also ``$sort_re'' for a less drastic way of controlling this behaviour. +If set, threading will only make use of the ?In-Reply-To? and ?References:? +fields when you $sort by message threads. By default, messages with the same +subject are grouped together in ?pseudo threads.?. This may not always be +desirable, such as in a personal mailbox where you might have several unrelated +messages with the subjects like ?hi? which will get grouped together. See also +$sort_re for a less drastic way of controlling this behaviour. -3.281. suspend +3.282. suspend Type: boolean Default: yes When unset, mutt won't stop when the user presses the terminal's susp key, -usually ``control-Z''. This is useful if you run mutt inside an xterm using a -command like xterm -e mutt. +usually ?^Z?. This is useful if you run mutt inside an xterm using a command +like ?xterm -e mutt?. -3.282. text_flowed +3.283. text_flowed Type: boolean Default: no -When set, mutt will generate text/plain; format=flowed attachments. This format -is easier to handle for some mailing software, and generally just looks like -ordinary text. To actually make use of this format's features, you'll need -support in your editor. +When set, mutt will generate ?format=flowed? bodies with a content type of +?text/plain; format=flowed?. This format is easier to handle for some mailing +software, and generally just looks like ordinary text. To actually make use of +this format's features, you'll need support in your editor. Note that $indent_string is ignored when this option is set. -3.283. thread_received +3.284. thread_received Type: boolean Default: no @@ -8498,35 +9083,42 @@ Default: no When set, mutt uses the date received rather than the date sent to thread messages by subject. -3.284. thorough_search +3.285. thorough_search Type: boolean Default: no -Affects the ~b and ~h search operations described in section ``patterns'' -above. If set, the headers and attachments of messages to be searched are -decoded before searching. If unset, messages are searched as they appear in the -folder. +Affects the ?b and ?h search operations described in section ?patterns?. If set +, the headers and body/attachments of messages to be searched are decoded +before searching. If unset, messages are searched as they appear in the folder. + +Users searching attachments or for non-ASCII characters should set this value +because decoding also includes MIME parsing/decoding and possible character set +conversions. Otherwise mutt will attempt to match against the raw message +received (for example quoted-printable encoded or with encoded headers) which +may lead to incorrect search results. -3.285. tilde +3.286. tilde Type: boolean Default: no When set, the internal-pager will pad blank lines to the bottom of the screen -with a tilde (~). +with a tilde (???). -3.286. time_inc +3.287. time_inc Type: number Default: 0 -Along with ``read_inc'', ``write_inc'', and ``net_inc'', this variable controls -the frequency with which progress updates are displayed. It suppresses updates -less than ``time_inc'' milliseconds apart. This can improve throughput on -systems with slow terminals, or when running mutt on a remote system. +Along with $read_inc, $write_inc, and $net_inc, this variable controls the +frequency with which progress updates are displayed. It suppresses updates less +than $time_inc milliseconds apart. This can improve throughput on systems with +slow terminals, or when running mutt on a remote system. + +Also see the ?tuning? section of the manual for performance considerations. -3.287. timeout +3.288. timeout Type: number Default: 600 @@ -8541,45 +9133,47 @@ waiting for input, performs these operations and continues to wait for input. A value of zero or less will cause Mutt to never time out. -3.288. tmpdir +3.289. tmpdir Type: path -Default: "" +Default: (empty) This variable allows you to specify where Mutt will place its temporary files needed for displaying and composing messages. If this variable is not set, the -environment variable TMPDIR is used. If TMPDIR is not set then "/tmp" is used. +environment variable $TMPDIR is used. If $TMPDIR is not set then ?/tmp? is +used. -3.289. to_chars +3.290. to_chars Type: string -Default: " +TCFL" +Default: ? +TCFL? Controls the character used to indicate mail addressed to you. The first -character is the one used when the mail is NOT addressed to your address -(default: space). The second is used when you are the only recipient of the -message (default: +). The third is when your address appears in the TO header -field, but you are not the only recipient of the message (default: T). The -fourth character is used when your address is specified in the CC header field, -but you are not the only recipient. The fifth character is used to indicate -mail that was sent by you. The sixth character is used to indicate when a mail -was sent to a mailing-list you subscribe to (default: L). +character is the one used when the mail is not addressed to your address. The +second is used when you are the only recipient of the message. The third is +when your address appears in the ?To:? header field, but you are not the only +recipient of the message. The fourth character is used when your address is +specified in the ?Cc:? header field, but you are not the only recipient. The +fifth character is used to indicate mail that was sent by you. The sixth +character is used to indicate when a mail was sent to a mailing-list you +subscribe to. -3.290. tunnel +3.291. tunnel Type: string -Default: "" +Default: (empty) Setting this variable will cause mutt to open a pipe to a command instead of a raw socket. You may be able to use this to set up preauthenticated connections -to your IMAP/POP3 server. Example: +to your IMAP/POP3/SMTP server. Example: -tunnel="ssh -q mailhost.net /usr/local/libexec/imapd" +set tunnel="ssh -q mailhost.net /usr/local/libexec/imapd" -NOTE: For this example to work you must be able to log in to the remote machine + +Note: For this example to work you must be able to log in to the remote machine without having to enter a password. -3.291. use_8bitmime +3.292. use_8bitmime Type: boolean Default: no @@ -8588,42 +9182,41 @@ Warning: do not set this variable unless you are using a version of sendmail which supports the -B8BITMIME flag (such as sendmail 8.8.x) or you may not be able to send mail. -When set, Mutt will invoke ``$sendmail'' with the -B8BITMIME flag when sending +When set, Mutt will invoke $sendmail with the -B8BITMIME flag when sending 8-bit messages to enable ESMTP negotiation. -3.292. use_domain +3.293. use_domain Type: boolean Default: yes -When set, Mutt will qualify all local addresses (ones without the @host -portion) with the value of ``$hostname''. If unset, no addresses will be -qualified. +When set, Mutt will qualify all local addresses (ones without the ?@host? +portion) with the value of $hostname. If unset, no addresses will be qualified. -3.293. use_envelope_from +3.294. use_envelope_from Type: boolean Default: no -When set, mutt will set the envelope sender of the message. If `` -$envelope_from_address'' is set, it will be used as the sender address. If not, -mutt will attempt to derive the sender from the "From:" header. +When set, mutt will set the envelope sender of the message. If +$envelope_from_address is set, it will be used as the sender address. If unset, +mutt will attempt to derive the sender from the ?From:? header. -Note that this information is passed to sendmail command using the "-f" command -line switch. Therefore setting this option is not useful if the ``$sendmail'' -variable already contains "-f" or if the executable pointed to by $sendmail -doesn't support the "-f" switch. +Note that this information is passed to sendmail command using the -f command +line switch. Therefore setting this option is not useful if the $sendmail +variable already contains -f or if the executable pointed to by $sendmail +doesn't support the -f switch. -3.294. use_from +3.295. use_from Type: boolean Default: yes -When set, Mutt will generate the `From:' header field when sending messages. If -unset, no `From:' header field will be generated unless the user explicitly -sets one using the ``my_hdr'' command. +When set, Mutt will generate the ?From:? header field when sending messages. If +unset, no ?From:? header field will be generated unless the user explicitly +sets one using the ?my_hdr? command. -3.295. use_idn +3.296. use_idn Type: boolean Default: yes @@ -8632,7 +9225,7 @@ When set, Mutt will show you international domain names decoded. Note: You can use IDNs for addresses even if this is unset. This variable only affects decoding. -3.296. use_ipv6 +3.297. use_ipv6 Type: boolean Default: yes @@ -8641,38 +9234,39 @@ When set, Mutt will look for IPv6 addresses of hosts it tries to contact. If this option is unset, Mutt will restrict itself to IPv4 addresses. Normally, the default should work. -3.297. user_agent +3.298. user_agent Type: boolean Default: yes -When set, mutt will add a "User-Agent" header to outgoing messages, indicating +When set, mutt will add a ?User-Agent:? header to outgoing messages, indicating which version of mutt was used for composing them. -3.298. visual +3.299. visual Type: path -Default: "" +Default: (empty) -Specifies the visual editor to invoke when the ~v command is given in the +Specifies the visual editor to invoke when the ??v? command is given in the builtin editor. -3.299. wait_key +3.300. wait_key Type: boolean Default: yes -Controls whether Mutt will ask you to press a key after shell- escape, -pipe-message, pipe-entry, print-message, and print-entry commands. +Controls whether Mutt will ask you to press a key after an external command has +been invoked by these functions: , , , +, and commands. -It is also used when viewing attachments with ``auto_view'', provided that the +It is also used when viewing attachments with ?auto_view?, provided that the corresponding mailcap entry has a needsterminal flag, and the external program is interactive. When set, Mutt will always ask for a key. When unset, Mutt will wait for a key only if the external command returned a non-zero status. -3.300. weed +3.301. weed Type: boolean Default: yes @@ -8680,7 +9274,7 @@ Default: yes When set, mutt will weed headers when displaying, forwarding, printing, or replying to messages. -3.301. wrap +3.302. wrap Type: number Default: 0 @@ -8689,43 +9283,44 @@ When set to a positive value, mutt will wrap text at $wrap characters. When set to a negative value, mutt will wrap text so that there are $wrap characters of empty space on the right side of the terminal. -3.302. wrap_search +3.303. wrap_search Type: boolean Default: yes -Controls whether searches wrap around the end of the mailbox. +Controls whether searches wrap around the end. -When set, searches will wrap around the first (or last) message. When unset, -searches will not wrap. +When set, searches will wrap around the first (or last) item. When unset, +incremental searches will not wrap. -3.303. wrapmargin +3.304. wrapmargin Type: number Default: 0 -(DEPRECATED) Equivalent to setting wrap with a negative value. +(DEPRECATED) Equivalent to setting $wrap with a negative value. -3.304. write_inc +3.305. write_inc Type: number Default: 10 -When writing a mailbox, a message will be printed every write_inc messages to +When writing a mailbox, a message will be printed every $write_inc messages to indicate progress. If set to 0, only a single message will be displayed before writing a mailbox. -Also see the ``$read_inc'' variable. +Also see the $read_inc, $net_inc and $time_inc variables and the ?tuning? +section of the manual for performance considerations. -3.305. write_bcc +3.306. write_bcc Type: boolean Default: yes -Controls whether mutt writes out the Bcc header when preparing messages to be -sent. Exim users may wish to unset this. If mutt is set to deliver directly via -SMTP (see ``$smtp_url''), this option does nothing: mutt will never write out -the BCC header in this case. +Controls whether mutt writes out the ?Bcc:? header when preparing messages to +be sent. Exim users may wish to unset this. If mutt is set to deliver directly +via SMTP (see $smtp_url), this option does nothing: mutt will never write out +the ?Bcc:? header in this case. 4. Functions @@ -8734,7 +9329,7 @@ they are available. The default key setting is given, and an explanation of what the function does. The key bindings of these functions can be changed with the bind command. -4.1. generic +4.1. generic menu The generic menu is not a real menu, but specifies common functions (such as movement) available in all menus except for pager and editor. Changing settings @@ -8742,740 +9337,752 @@ for this menu will affect the default bindings for all menus (except as noted). Table 8.2. Default generic function bindings -┌───────────────┬───────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────┐ -│ Function │Default key│ Description │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│top-page │H │move to the top of the page │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│next-entry │j │move to the next entry │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│previous-entry │k │move to the previous entry │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│bottom-page │L │move to the bottom of the page │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│refresh │^L │clear and redraw the screen │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│middle-page │M │move to the middle of the page │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│search-next │n │search for next match │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│exit │q │exit this menu │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│tag-entry │t │tag the current entry │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│next-page │z │move to the next page │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│previous-page │Z │move to the previous page │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│last-entry │* │move to the last entry │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│first-entry │= │move to the first entry │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│enter-command │: │enter a muttrc command │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│next-line │> │scroll down one line │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│previous-line │< │scroll up one line │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│half-up │[ │scroll up 1/2 page │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│half-down │] │scroll down 1/2 page │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│help │? │this screen │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│tag-prefix │; │apply next function to tagged messages │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│tag-prefix-cond│not bound │apply next function ONLY to tagged messages│ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│end-cond │not bound │end of conditional execution (noop) │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│shell-escape │! │invoke a command in a subshell │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│select-entry │RET │select the current entry │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│search │/ │search for a regular expression │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│search-reverse │ESC / │search backwards for a regular expression │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│search-opposite│not bound │search for next match in opposite direction│ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│jump │not bound │jump to an index number │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│current-top │not bound │move entry to top of screen │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│current-middle │not bound │move entry to middle of screen │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│current-bottom │not bound │move entry to bottom of screen │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│what-key │not bound │display the keycode for a key press │ -└───────────────┴───────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────┘ - - -4.2. index ++-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| Function |Default key| Description | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |H |move to the top of the page | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |j |move to the next entry | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |k |move to the previous entry | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |L |move to the bottom of the page | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |^L |clear and redraw the screen | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |M |move to the middle of the page | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |n |search for next match | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |q |exit this menu | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |t |tag the current entry | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |z |move to the next page | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |Z |move to the previous page | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |* |move to the last entry | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |= |move to the first entry | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |: |enter a muttrc command | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |> |scroll down one line | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |< |scroll up one line | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |[ |scroll up 1/2 page | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |] |scroll down 1/2 page | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |? |this screen | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |; |apply next function to tagged messages | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +|| |apply next function ONLY to tagged messages| +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| | |end of conditional execution (noop) | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |! |invoke a command in a subshell | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| | |select the current entry | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |/ |search for a regular expression | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |Esc / |search backwards for a regular expression | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +|| |search for next match in opposite direction| +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| | |jump to an index number | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| | |move entry to top of screen | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| | |move entry to middle of screen | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| | |move entry to bottom of screen | +|-----------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| | |display the keycode for a key press | ++-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + + +4.2. index menu Table 8.3. Default index function bindings -┌────────────────────────┬─────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────┐ -│ Function │ Default │ Description │ -│ │ key │ │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│create-alias │a │create an alias from a message sender │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│bounce-message │b │remail a message to another user │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│break-thread │# │break the thread in two │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│change-folder │c │open a different folder │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│change-folder-readonly │ESC c │open a different folder in read only mode │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│next-unread-mailbox │not bound│open next mailbox with new mail │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│collapse-thread │ESC v │collapse/uncollapse current thread │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│collapse-all │ESC V │collapse/uncollapse all threads │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│copy-message │C │copy a message to a file/mailbox │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│decode-copy │ESC C │make decoded (text/plain) copy │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│decode-save │ESC s │make decoded copy (text/plain) and delete │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│delete-message │d │delete the current entry │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│delete-pattern │D │delete messages matching a pattern │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│delete-thread │^D │delete all messages in thread │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│delete-subthread │ESC d │delete all messages in subthread │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│edit │e │edit the raw message │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│edit-type │^E │edit attachment content type │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│forward-message │f │forward a message with comments │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│flag-message │F │toggle a message's 'important' flag │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│group-reply │g │reply to all recipients │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│fetch-mail │G │retrieve mail from POP server │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│imap-fetch-mail │not bound│force retrieval of mail from IMAP server │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│display-toggle-weed │h │display message and toggle header weeding │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│next-undeleted │j │move to the next undeleted message │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│previous-undeleted │k │move to the previous undeleted message │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│limit │l │show only messages matching a pattern │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│link-threads │& │link tagged message to the current one │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│list-reply │L │reply to specified mailing list │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│mail │m │compose a new mail message │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│toggle-new │N │toggle a message's 'new' flag │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│toggle-write │% │toggle whether the mailbox will be │ -│ │ │rewritten │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│next-thread │^N │jump to the next thread │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│next-subthread │ESC n │jump to the next subthread │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│query │Q │query external program for addresses │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│quit │q │save changes to mailbox and quit │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│reply │r │reply to a message │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│show-limit │ESC l │show currently active limit pattern │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│sort-mailbox │o │sort messages │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│sort-reverse │O │sort messages in reverse order │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│print-message │p │print the current entry │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│previous-thread │^P │jump to previous thread │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│previous-subthread │ESC p │jump to previous subthread │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│recall-message │R │recall a postponed message │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│read-thread │^R │mark the current thread as read │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│read-subthread │ESC r │mark the current subthread as read │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│resend-message │ESC e │use the current message as a template for │ -│ │ │a new one │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│save-message │s │save message/attachment to a file │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│tag-pattern │T │tag messages matching a pattern │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│tag-subthread │not bound│tag the current subthread │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│tag-thread │ESC t │tag the current thread │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│untag-pattern │^T │untag messages matching a pattern │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│undelete-message │u │undelete the current entry │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│undelete-pattern │U │undelete messages matching a pattern │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│undelete-subthread │ESC u │undelete all messages in subthread │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│undelete-thread │^U │undelete all messages in thread │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│view-attachments │v │show MIME attachments │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│show-version │V │show the Mutt version number and date │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│set-flag │w │set a status flag on a message │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│clear-flag │W │clear a status flag from a message │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│display-message │RET │display a message │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│buffy-list │. │list mailboxes with new mail │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│sync-mailbox │$ │save changes to mailbox │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│display-address │@ │display full address of sender │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│pipe-message │| │pipe message/attachment to a shell command│ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│next-new │not bound│jump to the next new message │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│next-new-then-unread │TAB │jump to the next new or unread message │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│previous-new │not bound│jump to the previous new message │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│previous-new-then-unread│ESC TAB │jump to the previous new or unread message│ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│next-unread │not bound│jump to the next unread message │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│previous-unread │not bound│jump to the previous unread message │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│parent-message │P │jump to parent message in thread │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│extract-keys │^K │extract supported public keys │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│forget-passphrase │^F │wipe passphrase(s) from memory │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│check-traditional-pgp │ESC P │check for classic PGP │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│mail-key │ESC k │mail a PGP public key │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│decrypt-copy │not bound│make decrypted copy │ -├────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│decrypt-save │not bound│make decrypted copy and delete │ -└────────────────────────┴─────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────┘ - - -4.3. pager ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| Function | Default | Description | +| | key | | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |a |create an alias from a message sender | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |b |remail a message to another user | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |# |break the thread in two | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |c |open a different folder | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |Esc c |open a different folder in read only | +| | |mode | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| | |open next mailbox with new mail | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |Esc v |collapse/uncollapse current thread | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |Esc V |collapse/uncollapse all threads | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |C |copy a message to a file/mailbox | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |Esc C |make decoded (text/plain) copy | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |Esc s |make decoded copy (text/plain) and | +| | |delete | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |d |delete the current entry | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |D |delete messages matching a pattern | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |^D |delete all messages in thread | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |Esc d |delete all messages in subthread | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |e |edit the raw message | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |^E |edit attachment content type | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |f |forward a message with comments | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |F |toggle a message's 'important' flag | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |g |reply to all recipients | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |G |retrieve mail from POP server | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| | |force retrieval of mail from IMAP server| +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |h |display message and toggle header | +| | |weeding | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |j |move to the next undeleted message | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |k |move to the previous undeleted message | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |l |show only messages matching a pattern | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |& |link tagged message to the current one | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |L |reply to specified mailing list | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |m |compose a new mail message | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |N |toggle a message's 'new' flag | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |% |toggle whether the mailbox will be | +| | |rewritten | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |^N |jump to the next thread | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |Esc n |jump to the next subthread | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |Q |query external program for addresses | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |q |save changes to mailbox and quit | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |r |reply to a message | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |Esc l |show currently active limit pattern | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |o |sort messages | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |O |sort messages in reverse order | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |p |print the current entry | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |^P |jump to previous thread | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |Esc p |jump to previous subthread | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |R |recall a postponed message | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |^R |mark the current thread as read | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |Esc r |mark the current subthread as read | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |Esc e |use the current message as a template | +| | |for a new one | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |s |save message/attachment to a file | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |T |tag messages matching a pattern | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| | |tag the current subthread | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |Esc t |tag the current thread | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |^T |untag messages matching a pattern | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |u |undelete the current entry | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |U |undelete messages matching a pattern | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |Esc u |undelete all messages in subthread | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |^U |undelete all messages in thread | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |v |show MIME attachments | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |V |show the Mutt version number and date | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |w |set a status flag on a message | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |W |clear a status flag from a message | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| | |display a message | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |. |list mailboxes with new mail | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |$ |save changes to mailbox | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |@ |display full address of sender | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| || |pipe message/attachment to a shell | +| | |command | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| | |jump to the next new message | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| | |jump to the next new or unread message | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| | |jump to the previous new message | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +||Esc |jump to the previous new or unread | +| | |message | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| | |jump to the next unread message | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| | |jump to the previous unread message | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |P |jump to parent message in thread | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |^K |extract supported public keys | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |^F |wipe passphrase(s) from memory | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |Esc P |check for classic PGP | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| |Esc k |mail a PGP public key | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| | |make decrypted copy | +|--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------| +| | |make decrypted copy and delete | ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + + +4.3. pager menu Table 8.4. Default pager function bindings -┌──────────────────────┬─────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────┐ -│ Function │ Default │ Description │ -│ │ key │ │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│break-thread │# │break the thread in two │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│create-alias │a │create an alias from a message sender │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│bounce-message │b │remail a message to another user │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│change-folder │c │open a different folder │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│change-folder-readonly│ESC c │open a different folder in read only mode │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│next-unread-mailbox │not bound│open next mailbox with new mail │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│copy-message │C │copy a message to a file/mailbox │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│decode-copy │ESC C │make decoded (text/plain) copy │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│delete-message │d │delete the current entry │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│delete-thread │^D │delete all messages in thread │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│delete-subthread │ESC d │delete all messages in subthread │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│edit │e │edit the raw message │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│edit-type │^E │edit attachment content type │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│forward-message │f │forward a message with comments │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│flag-message │F │toggle a message's 'important' flag │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│group-reply │g │reply to all recipients │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│imap-fetch-mail │not bound│force retrieval of mail from IMAP server │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│display-toggle-weed │h │display message and toggle header weeding │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│next-undeleted │j │move to the next undeleted message │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│next-entry │J │move to the next entry │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│previous-undeleted │k │move to the previous undeleted message │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│previous-entry │K │move to the previous entry │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│link-threads │& │link tagged message to the current one │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│list-reply │L │reply to specified mailing list │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│redraw-screen │^L │clear and redraw the screen │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│mail │m │compose a new mail message │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│mark-as-new │N │toggle a message's 'new' flag │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│search-next │n │search for next match │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│next-thread │^N │jump to the next thread │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│next-subthread │ESC n │jump to the next subthread │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│print-message │p │print the current entry │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│previous-thread │^P │jump to previous thread │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│previous-subthread │ESC p │jump to previous subthread │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│quit │Q │save changes to mailbox and quit │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│exit │q │exit this menu │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│reply │r │reply to a message │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│recall-message │R │recall a postponed message │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│read-thread │^R │mark the current thread as read │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│read-subthread │ESC r │mark the current subthread as read │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│resend-message │ESC e │use the current message as a template for a │ -│ │ │new one │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│save-message │s │save message/attachment to a file │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│skip-quoted │S │skip beyond quoted text │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│decode-save │ESC s │make decoded copy (text/plain) and delete │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│tag-message │t │tag the current entry │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│toggle-quoted │T │toggle display of quoted text │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│undelete-message │u │undelete the current entry │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│undelete-subthread │ESC u │undelete all messages in subthread │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│undelete-thread │^U │undelete all messages in thread │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│view-attachments │v │show MIME attachments │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│show-version │V │show the Mutt version number and date │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│search-toggle │\\ │toggle search pattern coloring │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│display-address │@ │display full address of sender │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│next-new │not bound│jump to the next new message │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│pipe-message │| │pipe message/attachment to a shell command │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│help │? │this screen │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│next-page │Space │move to the next page │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│previous-page │- │move to the previous page │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│top │^ │jump to the top of the message │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│sync-mailbox │$ │save changes to mailbox │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│shell-escape │! │invoke a command in a subshell │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│enter-command │: │enter a muttrc command │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│buffy-list │. │list mailboxes with new mail │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│search │/ │search for a regular expression │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│search-reverse │ESC / │search backwards for a regular expression │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│search-opposite │not bound│search for next match in opposite direction │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│next-line │RET │scroll down one line │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│jump │not bound│jump to an index number │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│next-unread │not bound│jump to the next unread message │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│previous-new │not bound│jump to the previous new message │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│previous-unread │not bound│jump to the previous unread message │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│half-up │not bound│scroll up 1/2 page │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│half-down │not bound│scroll down 1/2 page │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│previous-line │not bound│scroll up one line │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│bottom │not bound│jump to the bottom of the message │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│parent-message │P │jump to parent message in thread │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│check-traditional-pgp │ESC P │check for classic PGP │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│mail-key │ESC k │mail a PGP public key │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│extract-keys │^K │extract supported public keys │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│forget-passphrase │^F │wipe passphrase(s) from memory │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│decrypt-copy │not bound│make decrypted copy │ -├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│decrypt-save │not bound│make decrypted copy and delete │ -└──────────────────────┴─────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────┘ - - -4.4. alias ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| Function | Default | Description | +| | key | | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |# |break the thread in two | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |a |create an alias from a message sender | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |b |remail a message to another user | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |c |open a different folder | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +||Esc c |open a different folder in read only mode | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| | |open next mailbox with new mail | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |C |copy a message to a file/mailbox | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |Esc C |make decoded (text/plain) copy | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |d |delete the current entry | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |^D |delete all messages in thread | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |Esc d |delete all messages in subthread | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |e |edit the raw message | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |^E |edit attachment content type | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |f |forward a message with comments | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |F |toggle a message's 'important' flag | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |g |reply to all recipients | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| | |force retrieval of mail from IMAP server | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |h |display message and toggle header weeding | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |j |move to the next undeleted message | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |J |move to the next entry | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |k |move to the previous undeleted message | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |K |move to the previous entry | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |& |link tagged message to the current one | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |L |reply to specified mailing list | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |^L |clear and redraw the screen | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |m |compose a new mail message | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |N |toggle a message's 'new' flag | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |n |search for next match | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |^N |jump to the next thread | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |Esc n |jump to the next subthread | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |p |print the current entry | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |^P |jump to previous thread | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |Esc p |jump to previous subthread | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |Q |save changes to mailbox and quit | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |q |exit this menu | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |r |reply to a message | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |R |recall a postponed message | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |^R |mark the current thread as read | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |Esc r |mark the current subthread as read | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |Esc e |use the current message as a template for | +| | |a new one | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |s |save message/attachment to a file | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |S |skip beyond quoted text | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |Esc s |make decoded copy (text/plain) and delete | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |t |tag the current entry | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |T |toggle display of quoted text | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |u |undelete the current entry | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |Esc u |undelete all messages in subthread | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |^U |undelete all messages in thread | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |v |show MIME attachments | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |V |show the Mutt version number and date | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |\\ |toggle search pattern coloring | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |@ |display full address of sender | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| | |jump to the next new message | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| || |pipe message/attachment to a shell command| +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |? |this screen | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| | |move to the next page | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |- |move to the previous page | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |^ |jump to the top of the message | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |$ |save changes to mailbox | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |! |invoke a command in a subshell | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |: |enter a muttrc command | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |. |list mailboxes with new mail | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |/ |search for a regular expression | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |Esc / |search backwards for a regular expression | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| | |search for next match in opposite | +| | |direction | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| | |scroll down one line | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| | |jump to an index number | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| | |jump to the next unread message | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| | |jump to the previous new message | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| | |jump to the previous unread message | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| | |scroll up 1/2 page | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| | |scroll down 1/2 page | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| | |scroll up one line | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| | |jump to the bottom of the message | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |P |jump to parent message in thread | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |Esc P |check for classic PGP | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |Esc k |mail a PGP public key | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |^K |extract supported public keys | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| |^F |wipe passphrase(s) from memory | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| | |make decrypted copy | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| | |make decrypted copy and delete | +|------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------| +| | |display the keycode for a key press | ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + + +4.4. alias menu Table 8.5. Default alias function bindings -┌──────────────┬───────────┬──────────────────────────┐ -│ Function │Default key│ Description │ -├──────────────┼───────────┼──────────────────────────┤ -│delete-entry │d │delete the current entry │ -├──────────────┼───────────┼──────────────────────────┤ -│undelete-entry│u │undelete the current entry│ -└──────────────┴───────────┴──────────────────────────┘ ++-------------------------------------------------------+ +| Function |Default key| Description | +|----------------+-----------+--------------------------| +| |d |delete the current entry | +|----------------+-----------+--------------------------| +||u |undelete the current entry| ++-------------------------------------------------------+ -4.5. query +4.5. query menu Table 8.6. Default query function bindings -┌────────────┬───────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────┐ -│ Function │Default key│ Description │ -├────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│create-alias│a │create an alias from a message sender │ -├────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│mail │m │compose a new mail message │ -├────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│query │Q │query external program for addresses │ -├────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│query-append│A │append new query results to current results│ -└────────────┴───────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────┘ ++----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| Function |Default key| Description | +|--------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +||a |create an alias from a message sender | +|--------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |m |compose a new mail message | +|--------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +| |Q |query external program for addresses | +|--------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------| +||A |append new query results to current results| ++----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -4.6. attach +4.6. attach menu Table 8.7. Default attach function bindings -┌─────────────────────┬──────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────┐ -│ Function │ Default │ Description │ -│ │ key │ │ -├─────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│bounce-message │b │remail a message to another user │ -├─────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│display-toggle-weed │h │display message and toggle header weeding │ -├─────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│edit-type │^E │edit attachment content type │ -├─────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│print-entry │p │print the current entry │ -├─────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│save-entry │s │save message/attachment to a file │ -├─────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│pipe-entry │| │pipe message/attachment to a shell command │ -├─────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│view-mailcap │m │force viewing of attachment using mailcap │ -├─────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│reply │r │reply to a message │ -├─────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│resend-message │ESC e │use the current message as a template for a │ -│ │ │new one │ -├─────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│group-reply │g │reply to all recipients │ -├─────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│list-reply │L │reply to specified mailing list │ -├─────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│forward-message │f │forward a message with comments │ -├─────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│view-text │T │view attachment as text │ -├─────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│view-attach │RET │view attachment using mailcap entry if │ -│ │ │necessary │ -├─────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│delete-entry │d │delete the current entry │ -├─────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│undelete-entry │u │undelete the current entry │ -├─────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│collapse-parts │v │Toggle display of subparts │ -├─────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│check-traditional-pgp│ESC P │check for classic PGP │ -├─────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│extract-keys │^K │extract supported public keys │ -├─────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│forget-passphrase │^F │wipe passphrase(s) from memory │ -└─────────────────────┴──────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────┘ - - -4.7. compose ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| Function | Default | Description | +| | key | | +|-----------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------| +| |b |remail a message to another user | +|-----------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------| +| |h |display message and toggle header weeding | +|-----------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------| +| |^E |edit attachment content type | +|-----------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------| +| |p |print the current entry | +|-----------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------| +| |s |save message/attachment to a file | +|-----------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------| +| || |pipe message/attachment to a shell command | +|-----------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------| +| |m |force viewing of attachment using mailcap | +|-----------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------| +| |r |reply to a message | +|-----------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------| +| |Esc e |use the current message as a template for a| +| | |new one | +|-----------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------| +| |g |reply to all recipients | +|-----------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------| +| |L |reply to specified mailing list | +|-----------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------| +| |f |forward a message with comments | +|-----------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------| +| |T |view attachment as text | +|-----------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------| +| | |view attachment using mailcap entry if | +| | |necessary | +|-----------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------| +| |d |delete the current entry | +|-----------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------| +| |u |undelete the current entry | +|-----------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------| +| |v |Toggle display of subparts | +|-----------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------| +||Esc P |check for classic PGP | +|-----------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------| +| |^K |extract supported public keys | +|-----------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------| +| |^F |wipe passphrase(s) from memory | ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + + +4.7. compose menu Table 8.8. Default compose function bindings -┌───────────────────┬──────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────┐ -│ Function │ Default │ Description │ -│ │ key │ │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│attach-file │a │attach file(s) to this message │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│attach-message │A │attach message(s) to this message │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│edit-bcc │b │edit the BCC list │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│edit-cc │c │edit the CC list │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│copy-file │C │save message/attachment to a file │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│detach-file │D │delete the current entry │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│toggle-disposition │^D │toggle disposition between inline/attachment │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│edit-description │d │edit attachment description │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│edit-message │e │edit the message │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│edit-headers │E │edit the message with headers │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│edit-file │^X e │edit the file to be attached │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│edit-encoding │^E │edit attachment transfer-encoding │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│edit-from │ESC f │edit the from field │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│edit-fcc │f │enter a file to save a copy of this message in│ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│filter-entry │F │filter attachment through a shell command │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│get-attachment │G │get a temporary copy of an attachment │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│display-toggle-weed│h │display message and toggle header weeding │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│ispell │i │run ispell on the message │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│print-entry │l │print the current entry │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│edit-mime │m │edit attachment using mailcap entry │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│new-mime │n │compose new attachment using mailcap entry │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│postpone-message │P │save this message to send later │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│edit-reply-to │r │edit the Reply-To field │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│rename-file │R │rename/move an attached file │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│edit-subject │s │edit the subject of this message │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│edit-to │t │edit the TO list │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│edit-type │^T │edit attachment content type │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│write-fcc │w │write the message to a folder │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│toggle-unlink │u │toggle whether to delete file after sending it│ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│toggle-recode │not bound │toggle recoding of this attachment │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│update-encoding │U │update an attachment's encoding info │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│view-attach │RET │view attachment using mailcap entry if │ -│ │ │necessary │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│send-message │y │send the message │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│pipe-entry │| │pipe message/attachment to a shell command │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│attach-key │ESC k │attach a PGP public key │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│pgp-menu │p │show PGP options │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│forget-passphrase │^F │wipe passphrase(s) from memory │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│smime-menu │S │show S/MIME options │ -├───────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│mix │M │send the message through a mixmaster remailer │ -│ │ │chain │ -└───────────────────┴──────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────┘ - - -4.8. postpone ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| Function | Default | Description | +| | key | | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |a |attach file(s) to this message | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |A |attach message(s) to this message | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |b |edit the BCC list | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |c |edit the CC list | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |C |save message/attachment to a file | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |D |delete the current entry | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |^D |toggle disposition between inline/attachment| +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |d |edit attachment description | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |e |edit the message | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |E |edit the message with headers | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |^X e |edit the file to be attached | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |^E |edit attachment transfer-encoding | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |Esc f |edit the from field | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |f |enter a file to save a copy of this message | +| | |in | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |F |filter attachment through a shell command | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |G |get a temporary copy of an attachment | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +||h |display message and toggle header weeding | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |i |run ispell on the message | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |l |print the current entry | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |m |edit attachment using mailcap entry | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |n |compose new attachment using mailcap entry | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |P |save this message to send later | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |r |edit the Reply-To field | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |R |rename/move an attached file | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |s |edit the subject of this message | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |t |edit the TO list | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |^T |edit attachment content type | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |w |write the message to a folder | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |u |toggle whether to delete file after sending | +| | |it | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| | |toggle recoding of this attachment | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |U |update an attachment's encoding info | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| | |view attachment using mailcap entry if | +| | |necessary | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |y |send the message | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| || |pipe message/attachment to a shell command | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |Esc k |attach a PGP public key | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |p |show PGP options | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |^F |wipe passphrase(s) from memory | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |S |show S/MIME options | +|---------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------| +| |M |send the message through a mixmaster | +| | |remailer chain | ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + + +4.8. postpone menu Table 8.9. Default postpone function bindings -┌──────────────┬───────────┬──────────────────────────┐ -│ Function │Default key│ Description │ -├──────────────┼───────────┼──────────────────────────┤ -│delete-entry │d │delete the current entry │ -├──────────────┼───────────┼──────────────────────────┤ -│undelete-entry│u │undelete the current entry│ -└──────────────┴───────────┴──────────────────────────┘ ++-------------------------------------------------------+ +| Function |Default key| Description | +|----------------+-----------+--------------------------| +| |d |delete the current entry | +|----------------+-----------+--------------------------| +||u |undelete the current entry| ++-------------------------------------------------------+ -4.9. browser +4.9. browser menu Table 8.10. Default browser function bindings -┌─────────────────┬───────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────┐ -│ Function │Default key│ Description │ -├─────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│change-dir │c │change directories │ -├─────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│display-filename │@ │display the currently selected file's name │ -├─────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│enter-mask │m │enter a file mask │ -├─────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│sort │o │sort messages │ -├─────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│sort-reverse │O │sort messages in reverse order │ -├─────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│select-new │N │select a new file in this directory │ -├─────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│check-new │not bound │check mailboxes for new mail │ -├─────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│toggle-mailboxes │TAB │toggle whether to browse mailboxes or all files│ -├─────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│view-file │Space │view file │ -├─────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│buffy-list │. │list mailboxes with new mail │ -├─────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│create-mailbox │C │create a new mailbox (IMAP only) │ -├─────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│delete-mailbox │d │delete the current mailbox (IMAP only) │ -├─────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│rename-mailbox │r │rename the current mailbox (IMAP only) │ -├─────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│subscribe │s │subscribe to current mailbox (IMAP only) │ -├─────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│unsubscribe │u │unsubscribe from current mailbox (IMAP only) │ -├─────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│toggle-subscribed│T │toggle view all/subscribed mailboxes (IMAP │ -│ │ │only) │ -└─────────────────┴───────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────┘ - - -4.10. pgp ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| Function | Default | Description | +| | key | | +|-------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| +| |c |change directories | +|-------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| +| |@ |display the currently selected file's name | +|-------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| +| |m |enter a file mask | +|-------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| +| |o |sort messages | +|-------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| +| |O |sort messages in reverse order | +|-------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| +| |N |select a new file in this directory | +|-------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| +| | |check mailboxes for new mail | +|-------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| +| | |toggle whether to browse mailboxes or all | +| | |files | +|-------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| +| | |view file | +|-------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| +| |. |list mailboxes with new mail | +|-------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| +| |C |create a new mailbox (IMAP only) | +|-------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| +| |d |delete the current mailbox (IMAP only) | +|-------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| +| |r |rename the current mailbox (IMAP only) | +|-------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| +| |s |subscribe to current mailbox (IMAP only) | +|-------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| +| |u |unsubscribe from current mailbox (IMAP only) | +|-------------------+----------+----------------------------------------------| +||T |toggle view all/subscribed mailboxes (IMAP | +| | |only) | ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + + +4.10. pgp menu Table 8.11. Default pgp function bindings -┌──────────┬───────────┬───────────────────────┐ -│ Function │Default key│ Description │ -├──────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────┤ -│verify-key│c │verify a PGP public key│ -├──────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────┤ -│view-name │% │view the key's user id │ -└──────────┴───────────┴───────────────────────┘ ++------------------------------------------------+ +| Function |Default key| Description | +|------------+-----------+-----------------------| +||c |verify a PGP public key| +|------------+-----------+-----------------------| +| |% |view the key's user id | ++------------------------------------------------+ -4.11. smime +4.11. smime menu Table 8.12. Default smime function bindings -┌──────────┬───────────┬───────────────────────┐ -│ Function │Default key│ Description │ -├──────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────┤ -│verify-key│c │verify a PGP public key│ -├──────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────┤ -│view-name │% │view the key's user id │ -└──────────┴───────────┴───────────────────────┘ ++------------------------------------------------+ +| Function |Default key| Description | +|------------+-----------+-----------------------| +||c |verify a PGP public key| +|------------+-----------+-----------------------| +| |% |view the key's user id | ++------------------------------------------------+ -4.12. mix +4.12. mix menu Table 8.13. Default mix function bindings -┌──────────┬───────────┬────────────────────────────────────────┐ -│ Function │Default key│ Description │ -├──────────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│accept │RET │Accept the chain constructed │ -├──────────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│append │a │Append a remailer to the chain │ -├──────────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│insert │i │Insert a remailer into the chain │ -├──────────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│delete │d │Delete a remailer from the chain │ -├──────────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│chain-prev│left │Select the previous element of the chain│ -├──────────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│chain-next│right │Select the next element of the chain │ -└──────────┴───────────┴────────────────────────────────────────┘ - - -4.13. editor ++-----------------------------------------------------------------+ +| Function |Default key| Description | +|------------+-----------+----------------------------------------| +| | |Accept the chain constructed | +|------------+-----------+----------------------------------------| +| |a |Append a remailer to the chain | +|------------+-----------+----------------------------------------| +| |i |Insert a remailer into the chain | +|------------+-----------+----------------------------------------| +| |d |Delete a remailer from the chain | +|------------+-----------+----------------------------------------| +|| |Select the previous element of the chain| +|------------+-----------+----------------------------------------| +|| |Select the next element of the chain | ++-----------------------------------------------------------------+ + + +4.13. editor menu Table 8.14. Default editor function bindings -┌───────────────┬───────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ -│ Function │Default key│ Description │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│bol │^A │jump to the beginning of the line │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│backward-char │^B │move the cursor one character to the left │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│backward-word │ESC b │move the cursor to the beginning of the word │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│capitalize-word│ESC c │capitalize the word │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│downcase-word │ESC l │convert the word to lower case │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│upcase-word │ESC u │convert the word to upper case │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│delete-char │^D │delete the char under the cursor │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│eol │^E │jump to the end of the line │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│forward-char │^F │move the cursor one character to the right │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│forward-word │ESC f │move the cursor to the end of the word │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│backspace │Backspace │delete the char in front of the cursor │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│kill-eol │^K │delete chars from cursor to end of line │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│kill-eow │ESC d │delete chars from the cursor to the end of the │ -│ │ │word │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│kill-line │^U │delete all chars on the line │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│quote-char │^V │quote the next typed key │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│kill-word │^W │delete the word in front of the cursor │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│complete │TAB │complete filename or alias │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│complete-query │^T │complete address with query │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│buffy-cycle │Space │cycle among incoming mailboxes │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│history-up │not bound │scroll up through the history list │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│history-down │not bound │scroll down through the history list │ -├───────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ -│transpose-chars│not bound │transpose character under cursor with previous │ -└───────────────┴───────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| Function |Default key| Description | +|-----------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------| +| |^A |jump to the beginning of the line | +|-----------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------| +| |^B |move the cursor one character to the left | +|-----------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------| +| |Esc b |move the cursor to the beginning of the word | +|-----------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------| +||Esc c |capitalize the word | +|-----------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------| +| |Esc l |convert the word to lower case | +|-----------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------| +| |Esc u |convert the word to upper case | +|-----------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------| +| |^D |delete the char under the cursor | +|-----------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------| +| |^E |jump to the end of the line | +|-----------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------| +| |^F |move the cursor one character to the right | +|-----------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------| +| |Esc f |move the cursor to the end of the word | +|-----------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------| +| ||delete the char in front of the cursor | +|-----------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------| +| |^K |delete chars from cursor to end of line | +|-----------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------| +| |Esc d |delete chars from the cursor to the end of the | +| | |word | +|-----------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------| +| |^U |delete all chars on the line | +|-----------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------| +| |^V |quote the next typed key | +|-----------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------| +| |^W |delete the word in front of the cursor | +|-----------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------| +| | |complete filename or alias | +|-----------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------| +| |^T |complete address with query | +|-----------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------| +| | |cycle among incoming mailboxes | +|-----------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------| +| | |scroll up through the history list | +|-----------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------| +| | |scroll down through the history list | +|-----------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------| +|| |transpose character under cursor with previous | ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Chapter 9. Miscellany @@ -9492,47 +10099,89 @@ back in the ELM-ME days. The following people have been very helpful to the development of Mutt: -Vikas Agnihotri , -Francois Berjon , -Aric Blumer , -John Capo , -David Champion , -Brendan Cully , -Liviu Daia , -Thomas E. Dickey , -David DeSimone , -Nickolay N. Dudorov , -Ruslan Ermilov , -Edmund Grimley Evans , -Michael Finken , -Sven Guckes , -Lars Hecking , -Mark Holloman , -Andreas Holzmann , -Marco d'Itri , -Björn Jacke , -Byrial Jensen , -David Jeske , -Christophe Kalt , -Tommi Komulainen , -Felix von Leitner (a.k.a ``Fefe'') , -Brandon Long , -Jimmy Mäkelä , -Lars Marowsky-Bree , -Thomas ``Mike'' Michlmayr , -Andrew W. Nosenko , -David O'Brien , -Clint Olsen , -Park Myeong Seok , -Thomas Parmelan , -Ollivier Robert , -Thomas Roessler , -Roland Rosenfeld , -TAKIZAWA Takashi , -Allain Thivillon , -Gero Treuner , -Vsevolod Volkov , -Ken Weinert + * Vikas Agnihotri + + * Francois Berjon + + * Aric Blumer + + * John Capo + + * David Champion + + * Brendan Cully + + * Liviu Daia + + * Thomas E. Dickey + + * David DeSimone + + * Nickolay N. Dudorov + + * Ruslan Ermilov + + * Edmund Grimley Evans + + * Michael Finken + + * Sven Guckes + + * Lars Hecking + + * Mark Holloman + + * Andreas Holzmann + + * Marco d'Itri + + * Bj?rn Jacke + + * Byrial Jensen + + * David Jeske + + * Christophe Kalt + + * Tommi Komulainen + + * Felix von Leitner (a.k.a ?Fefe?) + + * Brandon Long + + * Jimmy M?kel? + + * Lars Marowsky-Bree + + * Thomas ?Mike? Michlmayr + + * Andrew W. Nosenko + + * David O'Brien + + * Clint Olsen + + * Park Myeong Seok + + * Thomas Parmelan + + * Ollivier Robert + + * Thomas Roessler + + * Roland Rosenfeld + + * Rocco Rutte + + * TAKIZAWA Takashi + + * Allain Thivillon + + * Gero Treuner + + * Vsevolod Volkov + + * Ken Weinert 2. About this document