mutt(1)

NAME

mutt - The Mutt Mail User Agent

SYNOPSIS

mutt [-nRyzZ] [-e cmd] [-F file] [-m type] [-f file]

mutt [-nx] [-e cmd] [-a file] [-F file] [-H file] [-i file] [-s subj] [-b addr] [-c addr] addr [...]

mutt [-n] [-e cmd] [-F file] -p

mutt [-n] [-e cmd] [-F file] -Q query

mutt -v[v]

DESCRIPTION

Mutt is a small but very powerful text based program for reading electronic mail under unix operating systems, including support color terminals, MIME, and a threaded sorting mode.

OPTIONS

-a file
    Attach a file to your message using MIME.

-b address
    Specify a blind-carbon-copy (BCC) recipient

-c address
    Specify a carbon-copy (CC) recipient

-e command
    Specify a configuration command to be run after processing of initialization files.

-f mailbox
    Specify which mailbox to load.

-F muttrc
    Specify an initialization file to read instead of ~/.muttrc

-h  Display help.

-H draft
    Specify a draft file which contains header and body to use to send a message.

-i include
    Specify a file to include into the body of a message.

-m type
    specify a default mailbox type

-n  Causes Mutt to bypass the system configuration file.

-p  Resume a postponed message.

-Q query
    Qeury a configuration variables value. The query is executed after all configuration files have been parsed, and any commands given on the command line have been executed.

-R  Open a mailbox in read-only mode.

-s subject
    Specify the subject of the message.

-v  Display the Mutt version number and compile-time definitions.

-x  Emulate the mailx compose mode.

-y  Start Mutt with a listing of all mailboxes specified by the mailboxes command.

-z  When used with -f, causes Mutt not to start if there are no messages in the mailbox.

-Z  Causes Mutt to open the first mailbox specified by the mailboxes command which contains new mail.

ENVIRONMENT

EDITOR
    Editor to invoke when composing a message.

EMAIL
    The user's e-mail address.

HOME
    Full path of the user's home directory.

MAIL
    Full path of the user's spool mailbox.

MAILDIR
    Full path of the user's spool mailbox. Commonly used when the spool mailbox is a maildir (5) folder.

MAILCAPS
    Path to search for mailcap files.

MM_NOASK
    If this variable is set, mailcap are always used without prompting first.

PGPPATH
    Directory in which the user's PGP public keyring can be found.

TMPDIR
    Directory in which temporary files are created.

REPLYTO
    Default Reply-To address.

VISUAL
    Editor to invoke when the ~v command is given in the builtin editor.

FILES

~/.muttrc or ~/.mutt/muttrc
    User configuration file.

/etc/Muttrc
    System-wide configuration file.

/tmp/muttXXXXXX
    Temporary files created by Mutt.

~/.mailcap
    User definition for handling non-text MIME types.

/etc/mailcap
    System definition for handing non-text MIME types.

~/.mime.types
    User's personal mapping between MIME types and file extensions.

/etc/mime.types
    System mapping between MIME types and file extensions.

/usr/local/bin/mutt_dotlock
    The privileged dotlocking program.

/usr/local/doc/mutt/manual.txt
    The Mutt manual.

BUGS

None. Mutts have fleas, not bugs.

FLEAS

Suspend/resume while editing a file with an external editor does not work under SunOS 4.x if you use the curses lib in /usr/5lib. It does work with the S-Lang library, however.

Resizing the screen while using an external pager causes Mutt to go haywire on some systems.

suspend/resume does not work under Ultrix.

The help line for the index menu is not updated if you change the bindings for one of the functions listed while Mutt is running.

For a more up-to-date list of bugs, errm, fleas, please visit the mutt project's bug tracking system under http://bugs.guug.de/. To report a bug, please use the flea(1) program.

NO WARRANTIES
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

SEE ALSO

curses(3), flea(1), mailcap(5), maildir(5), mbox(5), mutt_dotlock(1), muttrc(5), ncurses(3), sendmail(1), smail(1)

Mutt Home Page: http://www.mutt.org/

The Mutt manual

The GNU General Public License.

AUTHOR

Michael Elkins, and others. Use <mutt-dev@mutt.org> to contact the developers.