Mutt was originally written by Michael Elkins in 1995 and released under the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version. The mutt slogan is "All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less". Mutt supports most mail formats (notably both mbox and Maildir) and protocols (POP3, IMAP, ...
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change mutt indicator color when hovering a new message
I want to change the color of the text when hovering a new message in mutts index.
Right now I have
color indicator color111 color236 #indicator line
and
color index color082 color237 ~N # ...
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fetchmail says I have no mail
here's the output of running fetchmail -v
my .fetchmailrc looks like this
poll pop.gmail.com
with proto POP3
user 'username'
there with password ...
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How can I move all Mutt mail into home folder?
I want to move all my mail into my ~/.mail folder. I want my inbox ( $spoolfile ) , sent and postponed. That's all my mail folders, I let gmail take care of the rest.
So would this go in my .muttrc ?
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How to get nano to work properly under mutt?
I have set nano as the default editor in mutt; mutt launches nano normally enough, but when I try to send the message (ie. save and quit, separately) mutt says the message has been aborted. Any idea ...
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What's the benefit of using mutt instead of GUI email client? [closed]
I've stumbled on a terminal email program mutt days before. And I thought sending / receiving emails from command-line is really cool.
But besides 'cool', what's the benefit of using it instead of ...
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SASL authentication failed on OSX
I'm trying to send some email with mutt from OSX. This used to work in the past, but now it has stopped working:
$ echo "file backup" | mutt -s "[BACKUP] file backup" -a ~/file.zip -- name@domain.com
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Mutt Stopped Working on OSX
Mutt stopped sending emails without an error on OSX. I did a google search, and I found this link for linux that says to restart sendmail, but can't figure out how to make it work for OSX.
which ...
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Mutt - View All Mail from All Subscribed Folders
I'm running into an issue that I feel should be relatively easy to resolve, however I find myself unable to do so. :)
I currently have mutt set up with my email server and all is well regarding ...
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How can have Mutt scroll inbox line by line rather than page by page?
Is there a setting for .muttrc that I cannot find that will enable this? I'm sure this ssort of thing goes against mutt purists but I bet it can be done.
Bonus question: How can I enlarge the ...
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Setup mutt to read through a threaded message and then return to the email index
I have begun using mutt (terminal email client) recently and I have it setup very nicely and easy to use. My only gripe is that sometimes it is difficult to tell when I transition from one thread to ...
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Setting up mutt for gmail
I am trying to set up mutt for gmail. I am following instructions at http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/howto/howto_setup_mutt_with_gmail_imap, however, after putting
set from = ...
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Have mutt check a directory for new mail brought by fetchmail
Is there a way to have mutt check a directory for new emails brought in my fetchmail rather than then my gmail imap? Having mutt check on demand is slow, basically I just reload the imap folder which ...
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Mutt will not let me save an SSL certificate
I have just set up Mutt to connect to my firm's IMAP and SMTP server. Everything works; but when I launch mutt, I get a warning about the certificate, and am given the option to:
(r)eject, accept ...
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How to pass bash variables (passwords) to IRSSI config file?
I'm using IRSSI and I wonder how can I pass my IRC channel's passwords to the IRSSI config file (~/.irssi/config) without writing them directly in the file.
In Mutt I've an awk command that queries a ...
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mutt colorizing piped messages
Viewing messages in mutt are colorized, but piping them through the less pager removes colorization. How do I preserve message colorization?
I've tried: | less -R
but colorization is stripped ...
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Mutt `folder-hook macro` Has Too Many Arguments
Mutt complains that the following folder-hook macro has too many arguments.
folder-hook +INBOX macro index,pager y "<save-message>=[Gmail]/All Mail<enter><enter>" "Archive ...
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Problem Verifying S/MIME Messages with Mutt
I'm having problems verifying some S/MIME messages in Mutt.
First some background
$ mutt -v
Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY ...
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Configuring mutt for S/MIME on OS X
I exported my CA chain (Deutsche Telekom > DFN > Uni Koeln) using
smime-keys add_root CertName.cer
after exporting the relevant certificates from my keychain. But when I import my personal ...
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How do I open a link from an email in mutt (without using the mouse)?
One of the things I like about using Mutt is that I don't have to use the mouse pretty much at all. I get a lot of emails that contain links, though, whether they're validation ("click on this link to ...
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How can I set mutt as the default mail client , when I click on a 'mailto' in a webpage?
I wanted to start mutt in terminal , when I click on some 'mailto' tag in a webpage , is that possible ? Currently Firefox starts , which I really don't favor , it's slow loading , and unnecessary.
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Mutt deletes Gmail's Sent mail?
Today, I set up a couple of Gmail accounts in mutt. I'm using offlineimap to do the syncing. I used this post as a guide. After the initial sync which took several hours, I logged into the web ...
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How can I configure Mutt to work properly in Cygwin?
Every time I try to run Mutt in cygwin I get the following errors:
Error in /home/JJR/.muttrc, line 4: smtp_url: unknown variable
Error in /home/JJR/.muttrc, line 5: smtp_pass: unknown variable
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Edit forwarded MIME messages with mutt
Both forwarding complete MIME messages (mime_forward=yes), and editing a message's text when forwarding it (mime_forward=yes) is quite simple with mutt, but including the attachments and editing the ...
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Apply multiple commands to messages in mutt
I created a macro in mutt to send the selected message to my archive folder:
macro index,pager ,m s=Archive
In many cases, new messages are archived right away, so I tried to extend the macro:
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Creating a multipart email and sending it in Linux
We use mutt to send out emails.
mutt -s "Test" -e "Content-Type: text/html" test@example.com < message.html
We send out our email updates in HTML format. We would like to send emails as ...
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Mutt seems to sync to Gmail IMAP only on quit
I am using Mutt 1.5.20 in Mac OS X Terminal. I have a Google mail account whose mail I fetch via IMAP. I also use a Gmail notifier app to notify me of new e-mail messages. My experience with Mutt ...
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Mutt, Gmail, multiple accounts
I have currently setup Gmail as my unified Inbox. Mail from several accounts gets forwarded to it and I heavily use Gmail's 'send as' feature (Where gmail connects to a smtp server and sends the mail ...
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Pipe output file into UNIX tool
I want to pipe the output file from the command line audio tool SoX into the email tool mutt.
What I want to do is something akin to this:
sox /Users/someUser/Desktop/input.mp3 output.mp3 |Â mutt -s ...
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Why my Mutt black background looks gray?
Why does my Mutt black background look gray?
My color settings look like:
color normal white black
color message white black
color hdrdefault cyan black
color attachment yellow black
color index ...
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OSX: Add Dock icon for dedicated Terminal command
I use Mutt. I want a dock icon to launch it. Is such a thing possible?
I'm looking for a way to add a second Terminal icon to the Dock which lets me launch a specific command, "mutt" in this ...
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using mutt to send 2 files
In the following example, I can use comma to send the same message to 2 recipients. But I can not use comma to send 2 files.
echo "Here is the file you requested" | mutt -s "attaching file" -a ...
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Automatically sort list messages to list folder with IMAP
I would like to automatically move received messages to list-specific folders on an IMAP server with mutt. All these lists are lists known to mutt.
What I do right now is periodically tag messages by ...
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Offlineimap OSX Snow Leopard - All but one account sync, but Gmail sync crashes on duplicate file?
I am setting up Offlineimap and Mutt on OSX Snow Leopard. I am almost done and have 5 accounts working/syncing. However, my main Gmail crashes every time I try to sync it! I don't know what is ...
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Setting up mail client on Arch Linux
I want to use command line mail client on the basic installation of Arch Linux, either mail or mutt or some other utility. I read that these are only mail clients means along with them we have to also ...
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Sending mails via Mutt and Gmail: Duplicates
I'm trying to setup mutt wiht gmail for the first time. It seems to work pretty well, however when I send a mail from Mutt i appears twice in Gmail's sent folder. (I assume it's also sent twice - I'm ...
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Mutt Password Caching
I am new to mutt.
I've read this question and implemented it ( Mutt: how to safely store password? ) but it's not the ideal solution I'm after.
Really, I want mutt to prompt me once at the beginning ...
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Why does mutt send the content-disposition:inline at the top?
My header from mutt and msmtp setup looks like the following
From an.address@gmail.com Fri Dec 10 12:10:20 2010
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:10:20 -0500
From: Philippe Harewood ...
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mutt is not viewing text/html inline using mailcap and text browsers
I use mutt on Linux. It's been working great for years and years, yet earlier this year it got upgraded and "something" changed.
When I get email where the body of the message is html, and the ...
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export not working for *NIX mail script
For the life of me I can't get mutt on a bash line to use an environment variable OR an alternate muttrc file. The whole process of emailing and receiving the email is working back to front -- just ...
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Mutt and calendar?
Is there any calendar which works well with Mutt?
Ideally it should be able to handle .ics files so I can import the meeting invitations my Outlook-using colleagues send me.
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Mutt config: # of characters displayed
I use mutt for my gmail (IMAP). I respond to a lot of messages that are TXT messages from cell phones. When I reply to them I would like to know how many characters I have typed so I can avoid ...
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How do I create a new folder in Mutt
I want to create a new folder from within Mutt.
I use Maildir format to store the folders on the machine I am running Mutt on.
(I also view the mail remotely using courier IMAP but this doesnt ...
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mutt isn't sending large messages
I'm using mutt in the following way:
echo <MESSAGE> | mutt -s <SUBJECT> -- <TO-ADDR>
This usually works when I try small message (messages with ~10 lines in the body). But when ...
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Has anyone successfully configured mutt for GMail on FreeBSD? If so, how?
I've tried following the instructions here and here. Currently, I can read email from my GMail account, but not send—this is on a personal computer, so even if I configured Sendmail, I doubt any of ...
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sending mail using mutt + emacs
How to sent mail from emacs?
I found this
There are two ways to send the message. C-c C-s (mail-send) sends the message and marks the mail buffer unmodified, but leaves that buffer selected so ...
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Listing important folders in mutt
When I type c in mutt I get all my folders displayed and this is quite long.
I would like to configure it to show only those folders that I deem to be interesting. Would be happy to configure it by ...
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Mutt nested mailboxes navigation
I receive a lot of emails daily, and with the ever-growing amount of maildirs I'm in need to structure/optimize the browsing in mutt.
My maildirs follow this naming scheme: ...
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How to convert mboxo/mboxrd to mboxcl/mboxcl2
I am trying to export email from thunderbird so that I can read it in mutt. I have started by exporting into mbox format using the ImportExportTools thunderbird add on. I then copied the file to the ...
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Play a sound when mutt has new mail?
I'm using mutt for my mail, usually put on the 2nd monitor with some other windows. Because I'm not monitoring that monitor I often miss the new mails.
I want mutt to play a sound (or use Growl) to ...
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Hardcode email's password to Ubuntu's Mutt
How can you hardcode a password to Mutt in Ubuntu?
It should apparently be placed to a .muttrc.
However, I have not been successful in that.
