Questions tagged [mutt]
Mutt is a text-based e-mail client for Unix-like systems
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Tmux + mutt not redrawing
I've recently switched to mutt, but have been using tmux for a year or so now.
Mutt seems to have occasional issues redrawing, for example if I delete a bunch of email using d and then persist the ...
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Reverse the email numbering in mutt
How can I reverse the email numbering in mutt? I prefer to have the latest email in the bottom row, which can be achieved by the following settings
set sort=threads
set sort_aux=last-date-received ...
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Mutt checking incoming mail in tmux
I've been using mutt and liking it. I work with tmux, and one issue that I've had is receiving notifications of incoming emails (via mutt's beep_new setting). I've got the mail_check and timeout ...
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How to automatically move mail from POP account to IMAP account using mutt
I have two mailboxes, one that is accessible exclusively via POP3 ([email protected]) & a second one that supports IMAP ([email protected]). The SMTP server that belongs to the IMAP account can send mail ...
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How to ask for return receipt and set importance in Mutt?
I would like to be able to ask for a return receipt and set importance levels in emails when I am sending emails from Mutt (using Mutt Smtp sender).
I can not find a way online, maybe not doing the ...
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Why do certain replied emails missing threading when replied back in Mutt?
I use Mutt for emails. I have threads enabled and I can see that most of the emails are threaded in Mutt. So that is all good. But sometimes I reply to an email and the answer(from other person) to ...
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Fetchmail redownloading emails
I am using fetchmail to retrieve emails off server and then viewing with mutt. My settings look like,
poll server.com protocol IMAP
user "[email protected]"
password "secret"
keep
mda "/usr/bin/...
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Mutt, not respecting mailcap search order?
According to the docs (see "Search Order"), the mailcap below should behave like this:
When I read a message, it'll be processed through lynx
When I browse to the attachment screen, and select the ...
user86118
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Mutt - Missing emails
I switched from Thunderbird to Mutt after a long time of googling on Mutt. I do not use anything like offlineimap or msmtp (should I?) etc, even though I would like to give it a try but I haven't ...
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Is it possible to use self-signed SMIME certs with Mutt?
I'm trying to use a self-signed SMIME key that my company has issued me with Mutt. However, when I try to import it with smime_keys I get the following.
Couldn't identify root certificate!
No root ...
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How to handle Multiple OfflineImap with Gpg stored Passwords?
I am using Offlineimap with gpgp stored passwords. Pretty similar to this setup
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/44214/encrypt-offlineimap-password
My issue is this. I have multiple email ...
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How to make Vim respect proper wrapping when opened from Mutt?
I am using the line below in my .muttrc Editing generally seems to work except that braking at 79 driving me nuts. I cannot get Vim to stop acting that way. I do not want any braking whatsoever but I ...
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How to parse pipe with multiple commands independently?
How can I parse output of a single command by multiple commands without truncating at each step?
For example
ls -al|grep -i something will pass every line that has "something" in it to the next ...
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How do I use OfflineImap / Isync with a server with self signed certs (reading emails in Mutt)?
I am trying to download my emails from mmy imap server (to use with Mutt), but hitting a wall here. I keep getting cert errors. I searched the web and found some solutions however those solutions ...
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Coloring of collapsed threads in mutt
I'm trying to figure out the syntax of colouring collapsed threads in the mutt index. The documentation for mutt patterns doesn't seem to include a description of how this works, and so far I've been ...
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Archiving IMAP emails locally with mutt
In Thunderbird, I have the following folder structure:
IMAP
INBOX
Archives
2014
Local
Archives
2012
2013
2014
When I am in the IMAP inbox, I can press a and it will move it into IMAP/Archives/$...
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Read and unread in mutt
I use Thunderbird with IMAP and currently try out mutt. When I read messages in mutt, they are not marked as read in Thunderbird. In mutt, they are marked with N or O. I found out that I can toggle ...
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awesome wm: set a hotkey to open mutt
I'm using awesome 3.4 on debian jessie. I'd like to add the hotkey combo mod + m to open mutt.
I had thought that awful.key({ modkey, }, "m", function () awful.util.spawn_with_shell("mutt") ...
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Problems with tmux, mutt, and terminal colors
If I start mutt in a tmux session like this:
$ tmux new-session -s mutt mutt
Mutt complains:
Error in /home/lars/.mutt/colors, line 20: 230: color not supported by term
Error in /home/lars/.mutt/...
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Mutt new email status message force show
I am using mutt with remote gmail account where have gmail labels/folders as mutt mailboxes. When I am in some folder and mutt synchronizes it says in status:
`You have new email in =Debian/Devel ...
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Mutt not being configured to use gmail
After reading lot of pages I tried below lines in .muttrc
set smtp_url="smtp://[email protected]:587/"
set smtp_pass="XXXXXXXX"
set from="[email protected]"
set realname="xxxxx"
but when ...
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Could not connect to smtp Outlook.com server
I can't force mutt to send mail to the Outlook.com SMTP server, my config is as follows:
set smtp_url = "smtp://[email protected]:587/"
set smtp_pass = "mysecretpassword"
set ...
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how to use Gmail tabs with IMAP?
Is there any way to apply an IMAP label to only the messages under the "Primary" tab in my Gmail?
I'd like to use a console-based email client like Mutt or Gnus or Wanderlust to reply to messages, ...
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Links to references in mutt or vim
Is there some automatic script that changes text with http:// links to references for mutt or a vim plugin ?
Say I have
Text text, hey there goes a http://example.com link,
hey the second one http:...
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Sync locally only last 30 days of mail
I have offlineimap set up with my gmail account to sync my mail locally via imap. It works great.
Is there a way to only sync the last 30 days worth of mail?
I've looked into archivemail but it ...
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How to uninstall software which install through config, make, make install on Mac
I want to uninstall mutt which I installed in the following way.
$ cd mutt-1.5.21
$ patch -p1 < ../patch-1.5.21.sidebar.txt
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
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Not able to use solarized in Mutt
I am using Mavericks+iTerm+zsh+oh-my-zsh. I have no problem to use solarized in iTerm and vim. But I am having a hard time to use solarized in Mutt.
According to the official site, it supposed to be ...
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Where does Mutt save attachment?
I use v to open attachment list and select an item and hit s to save it.
Q1. Now where does Mutt save the attachment?
Q2. How to define a directory where I want to save attachments?
Thanks in ...
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How to jump to links and open it in Mutt
I just started using Mutt. How can I jump to a link and next link and so on in Mutt? And how to open in in w3m?
Thanks in advance.
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getting fetchmail/procmail to mark/split email by account or domain used to fetch
I've set up fetchmail to grab emails from two different accounts using POP, but I'd like them to be marked in such a way that Gnus or mutt can tell that they're from separate accounts for the purposes ...
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mutt: variable for current folder?
In mutt, can i access the folder i'm currently in by a variable?
I want to create a macro that tags all messages in the current folder, and copy them to a folder of the same name in another directory.
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what are working mutt pgp encryption commands?
I have been using mutt for a while and while I can (and do) sign all of my emails, I cannot encrypt any emails. I got my commands from some random place on the internet. Here is my current setup. I ...
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msmtp directory for sent mail
After sending message with msmtp -a account1 (integrated with mutt) sended message appears in ~/sent/new, how can I change this directory?
.msmtprc:
account account1
host smtp.gmail.com
port 587
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How do I bind shift-enter in my .muttrc?
I'd like to say bind index \S<enter> ... if I knew what \S should be and <enter> should be. Where should I have found them in the mutt documentation? Where's the list of control ...
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Getting error with `offlineimap` on first run:
I've been getting kinda tired of Gmail's UI and email clients are too bloated or just feel wrong. So I've been trying out Mutt and it looks like it'll be the thing I'll be using.
I've been following ...
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Mailbox is always read-only in Mutt
I just installed Mutt and I'm currently unable to delete mail from my mailbox. Mutt will give a message saying it is unable to do this because the mailbox is ready-only. I can send and receive ...
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Preventing Mutt from assuming an address is on local machine
Is there a way of preventing mutt from assuming an address without an @ is an address on my local machine. This generally happens if I mistype a name from my address book.
If I type mispeltname I ...
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In Mutt, how to extract key from a S/MIME signed message to reply encrypted?
I have a certificate signed message in my inbox. The public certificate of the sender should be available there. How do I extract and use it to send back an encrypted message?
Note: I configured GPG ...
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Same folder history for "save folder" as "change folder"?
I use mutt as my e-mail client and have only one major annoyance. If I want to save an e-mail to a folder that I've used before as a "save folder", then I can use the up-arrow to navigate to the ...
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Setting mutt mimetype to handle multiple options
I've configured .mailcap for mutt to handle mimetypes of attachments individually, with different 'viewers' over the years which works well, however mailcap can handle only one application per type. I'...
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gmail macro to select only "to" messages in priority inbox (mutt)
I have this line in ~/.muttrc:
macro index tp "<change-folder>[Gmail]/Important<enter>" "Go to priority inbox"
which successfully restricts what mutt grabs to only Gmail's priority inbox....
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Send mail with an zip attached from Mutt without prompt options?
I'm stucked when I'm trying send an email, using Mutt, but evry times that I run the script it prompt an menu with an verification. There is any way to bypass that verification or to inupt the option ...
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How to disable automatic 'mark as read' in Mutt?
Mutt automatically remove 'N' flag from e-mail after it was opened. I don't want to mark this flag again after I saw content of mail. It would be better to override Mutt 'mark as read' behavior only ...
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Importing certificates with gpgsm: pinentry is not displayed
I recently installed GnuPG 2.0.19 to use GPGME with mutt (1.5.21).
gpg-agent.conf has
log-file /Users/jan/gpg-agent.log
debug-level guru
debug 1024
verbose
lc-ctype UTF-8
keep-tty
keep-display
and ....
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How do I filter or search email messages in Mutt by a flag?
For example , if I want to list only unseen/unread emails? I know you can use some sort of expressions when doing a search with / but not sure what is supported. Am I able to specify a flag based ...
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Use mutt to check local e-mail?
I have been using mutt for my e-mail for quite some time now. I tried to install a bug-tracking system but it sends an e-mail confirmation for the login to the local user (i.e. root@localhost).
How ...
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How can I set up Mutt to correctly handle Gmail folders?
Whenever I use mutt, it saves my sent messages in a Gmail folder it created called "[Imap]/Sent". Similarly, instead of going to the Trash, archived messages end up in a new folder called "[Imap]/...
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Making Mutt GPG encrypt emails saved as drafts
How can I, when postponing an email in Mutt, ensure that the email is GPG encrypted before it is saved to the drafts folder?
Ideally, this would be based on the PGP setting for the email being ...
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Secret key is not found : gpg
I am using mutt to send email. When I come to send some, I get a message telling 'Enter your keyID', I select one of my gpg owner user's key (for which I generated a pair of key using gpg --gen-key). ...
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How can I process outgoing mail with mutt?
Is it possible to alter outgoing emails with mutt? I need it at the MIME level, just before a message is passed on to an SMTP server.
For example: My language uses diacritics, but there are still ...
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