Questions tagged [mutt]
Mutt is a text-based e-mail client for Unix-like systems
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Can I launch mutt in composing view from command line?
I would like to precompose a message in a script and then give it to mutt, without sending it automatically.
When I do
echo -e "This\nis\nmy\ncool\nmessage" | mutt -s "Test message"...
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Why mutt don't accept the password?
I have a problem when I enter my gmail password, mutt shows me a notification "login failed" my password is correct
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mutt: keybind to run external script just before imap-fetch-mail
I use offlineimap to manage receiving mail from my IMAP server. I use folders in mutt which offlineimap populates to view them. I would love to be able to bind a key to run the offlineimap external ...
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Location of .vimrc sourced by vim editor in mutt
I am having trouble trying to customize the vim editor that mutt opens while composing and reading emails.
While composing an email, mutt opens a vim text editor. The name of this file/buffer seems to ...
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How to combine local mailboxes and imap ones in mutt?
I used to read my email with neomutt and get them from server with fetchmail. For a time, I switched to using mostly my webmail, but now I'd like to combine mail archives managed by mutt and ...
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mutt disallows deletion of message with error "Mailbox is read-only" in WSL
MAIL in .bashrc is set thus:
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/Tryer && export MAIL
fetchmail and mutt commands work fine and display any new message received. However, on trying to delete a message in ...
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ssh'd-to terminal background becomes white only from WSL2
I read email with mutt on an Ubuntu 18 host, which I ssh into.
When I ssh from macOS 11 (via iTerm2, if that matters) or from another Ubuntu 18 host, all is well.
But when I ssh from WSL2 (running ...
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How to continue using msmtp OAuth 2.0 for Gmail in mutt after oob deprecation?
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For two years I've been happily accessing my Gmail accounts with neomutt.
I'm sync'ing between neomutt locally and my online Gmail account with mbsync and a "2-Step Verification" ...
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Validation for local DKIM signature fails after sending through msmtp
due to my mail provider's setup, I need to DKIM sign my messages locally. I do this by piping messages composed in mutt through a simple Python script to msmtp.
These messages will fail a DKIM check ...
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Mutt cannot delete messages
Running mutt on AWS EC2 instance with Amazon Linux, I cannot delete any messages,
running mutt either as a regular user or as root for root mailbox.
When quitting, following 'Purge deleted messages'
I ...
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Can't send mails as root with Mutt through MSTP
I successfully set up Mutt and SMPT to send to myself some logs through emails.
As user, it works perfectly
However, when I ask through sudo crontab -e as root to send some logs after running some ...
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How to resend bounced email messages using mutt
Background
An email relaying issue was resolved.
32 email messages to sponsors had bounced to root.
I copied /var/mail/root to /tmp/root.
I deleted irrelevant messages from /tmp/root (using mutt).
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What is the difference between Gmail SMTP port 465 and 587 in Mutt?
Which Gmail SMTP port should I use in Mutt's smtp_url configuration option? I noticed that port 465 only works with smpts://..., while port 587 only works with smtp://... (by "works", I mean ...
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Bulk delete text/html parts of email messages
I would like to reduce the size of my mail archive by deleting text/html parts of multipart/alternative messages.
I can do this individually in mutt by opening each message, but it gets tedious. Is ...
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Saving an attachment in Mutt - how to select a directory using the list view
I want to save an attachment to directory ~/a/b/c. I can manually type in (tab complete etc) the path upon entering ~/a/b/c/ and mutt prompts to save. Fine.
But how can I achieve the same thing using ...
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neomutt: Stop new mail banner for folders other than inbox
I'm using neomutt as my local mail reader (I use isync to mirror my Gmail account locally). I am noticing that sometimes when I start neomutt, it informs me in the bottom banner that there are new ...
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Get input from a command on Mutt
Mutt can be used to send email from command line, for that we do something like:
mutt -s "Subject" -i file.txt -- someone@gmail.com < /dev/null
My file.txt can have the output of a ...
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Intermittent issue of receiving emails when emails are sent using "mutt" email client in Linux
To send an email to a specific set of users, I am currently using mutt (command line based email client).
Below is the command that I have used in my shell script to send an email:
echo "Initiating ...
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Opening every mailbox in read-only mode in Mutt
I’d like to use Mutt (or NeoMutt, if that makes a difference) to view maildirs in read-only mode.
I know that I can use the -R command-line argument to start Mutt in read-only mode, or press the % ...
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Bash: How can i send one mail instead of multiple mails
I am learning shell scripting and i was stuck at sending an email.
here in below code i am using conditions to check the files size if it is greater than 0 bytes then send an email.
if [ -s file1 ]
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Mutt/Neomutt: Custom commands / named macros
I know mutt allows me to define custom keyboard macros. But is it possible to define custom functions - unbound macros so to speak - that can be executed via mutt's command line. Like so ":...
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Alternate html and text plain - avoid short messages like "your mailreader don't support html message"
I would like to read multpart (html and alternative text together) text/plain
first.
So, I set muttrc as follow:
.mutt/muttrc
auto_view text/html
alternative_order text/plain text/html
and mailcap ...
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view two maildirs as one in mutt/neomutt
Simplifying another question about merging multiple email accounts:
I have two maildirs. How do I get a combined listing of both - either in Mutt or NeoMutt? This means where the messages are sorted ...
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GPG autologin with pam, pinentry
Recently I started using Neomutt with Luke´s mutt-wizward and therefore I have to setup pass and gpg, which were both new to me. I know how public and private key encryption works but after playing/...
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Configuring mutt for Office365 - displaying threads and sent mail correctly
I'm trying to set up mutt to use it with my business email that is hosted by Office365. I used a muttrc i found on github for my initial configuration and changed it a bit according to my needs and ...
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Archiving Gmail messages using Mutt: does simply deleting the message in mutt work?
Question: can someone confirm and/or explain the following observation?
After shopping for ~/.mutt/muttrc settings over the web and digging into years-old (if not decades old) posts, I found the ...
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how can I specify the default domain for mutt to append to unqualified addresses
I would like to be able to type just the username of a recipient for people within my domain, and have mutt automatically qualify it for me. That is, if I type user1 I would like it to be transformed ...
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Yahoo IMAP with mutt, login failure
set imap_user = "imap://(user)@imap.mail.yahoo.com:993/"
set imap_pass = "(password)"
set ssl_starttls=yes
set ssl_force_tls = yes
#set smtp_url = "smtp://(user)@smtp.mail.yahoo.com:587/"
#set ...
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Flush (Neo)Mutt Flags
I wonder how can I flush flags for messages without close (Neo)Mutt or switch the mailbox. I tend to keep the window open, but I want that messages that get marked as read (more likely unmarked to be ...
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bulk email sending with an attachment using mutt
A friend of mine who uses Windows needs to send an email to a few hundred people regularly. A simple greeting line and a PDF attachment (not a spam, nothing illegal!).
Until recently she managed to ...
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Mutt: sort last mail first
I use mutt and this is in my config to sort my mails:
set index_format = "%4C %Z %{%Y %b %d %R} %-15.15L (%4l) %s"
set sort = threads
set sort_aux = reverse-last-date-received
But I get a little ...
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Getting neomutt to download all headers and messages
By setting the variables header_cache and message_cachedir, you can make neomutt cache messages headers and even the message bodies. This allows way quicker searching among other benefits.
The ...
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Mutt, Gmail and the new mail
I have my Gmail account accessible via IMAP in Mutt. And I'm probably missing something but why Mutt doesn't marks my email as read when I open it? I mean, in Mutt, I press Enter on an email, it opens ...
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how to send mail attachment from ubuntu 16.04 using Gmail service?
I have been using filezilla to import/export some data from server.
How to send a file in a zip file via email in unix?
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Mutt Direct Email Organization
I have been using the Mutt Terminal email client and have been enjoying it thus far. I am getting into some Linux Kernel programming lately and have recently become a part of the lkml(linux kernel ...
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OSX Mutt Mailcap Not Viewing text/html
I have installed Mutt on OSX. I am trying to configure Mutt to view HTML emails. I have added an auto_view directive and mailcap file. However whenever I open an email in html it simply shows up as ...
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Starting Mutt on raspberry pi gives errors processing Muttrc
I recently apt-get upgraded my pi, running stretch. When I start mutt, it displays the error messages below.
Error in /usr/lib/mutt/source-muttrc.d, line 3: for: unknown command
Error in /usr/lib/...
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w3m - work offline for email HTML attachement preview
I'm using w3m for reading HTML mail in Mutt. I'm not using auot_view but rather open the HTML attachements in w3m. w3m seems to download resources like stylesheets and images by default (it has just ...
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Limiting the number (by date) of IMAP headers fetched in mutt
I'm using mutt to open an IMAP folder (gmail) that has a lot of messages (hundreds of thousands), so I'd like to tell mutt to fetch only messages less than 1 week old (for example), since fetching ...
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Setting up mutt with pass to handle encrypted passwords
As mentioned in the comments on this article,
https://blog.christophersmart.com/2016/08/10/command-line-password-management-with-pass/
and as described in this blog entry,
http://schnizle.in/blog/...
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Mutt email client not receiving or sending mail
I am trying to setup the mutt email client on my Linux system, however, I am running into some issues.
To begin with, when Mutt launches it states the following at the bottom of the screen: ...
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mutt loses 'new' flag on unread emails when changing mailbox
I have an anoying misconfiguration in my mail setup and I can't tell where it comes from.
I configured my mutt client to retreive email from Offlineimap with folder-hook to handle multiple accounts. ...
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How do you to configure a hotkey in Lynx browser to open page the system browser?
When you're viewing an HTML page in Lynx, sometimes text-only formatting isn't adequate (especially for poorly designed HTML). Can Lynx be configured to open the current page in another browser (e.g. ...
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In notmuch search results, which maildir contains each of the emails?
I am using notmuch with the mua mutt (actually, neomutt). When I perform a search, all matching mail is accessible via a special maildir which I can open in mutt. However, I do not see any way to ...
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How can I configure Mutt's GPG support to use simple ASCII armor instead of PGP/MIME?
Since I started using signed (and sometimes encrypted) mail with PGP/MIME, I've heard about messages being marked as spam, making the communication less reliable. I found that this wasn't the case if ...
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How do I get mutt to send data over SMS?
I'm trying to use mutt to send emails to ##########@vtext.com, effectively using mutt for SMS. Unfortunately all of the mail I've sent hasn't reached my phone.
I'm thinking that mutt needs some ...
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How to cancel fetching/downloading big messages/folders in mutt?
How can I cancel the download of big messages or folders in Mutt?
ctrl+c does nothing and I tried different things and keys and searched the web for
how to cancel ...
I don't want to quit the ...
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Mutt, Mailcap, Cygwin, Chrome: Opening HTML attachments in Mutt
I am unable to open HTML attachments in Chrome when running Mutt on Cygwin. I view the message, then enter the list of attachments (v), then choose the text/html attachment and press m to execute ...
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Does installing Sendmail(using apt install) allow my computer to act as an email server?
I am new to networking and have installed sendmail to allow me to send mail via mutt. I wanted to know if by doing this I have allowed my computer to act as an email server, or if the sendmail ...
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The way to indicate that new messages are present (mutt)
So the basic problem I want to discuss, is there a way to indicate that new messages were got into the mail box?
What I mean, currently I have about ~8 separate folders managed by sieve, I do not ...
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