Questions tagged [mutt]
Mutt is a text-based e-mail client for Unix-like systems
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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" [email protected] < message.html
We send out our email updates in HTML format. We would like to send emails as multi-...
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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 | 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 instance....
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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 one....
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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 set up Mutt with GMail for the first time. It seems to work pretty well. However, when I send a mail from Mutt, it appears twice in GMail's Sent folder. (I assume it's also sent twice - ...
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Mutt Password Caching
I am new to mutt.
I've read this question and implemented it ( https://superuser.com/questions/31305/mutt-how-to-safely-store-password ) but it's not the ideal solution I'm after.
Really, I want ...
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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 [email protected] Fri Dec 10 12:10:20 2010
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:10:20 -0500
From: Name Name <[email protected]>
To: {...
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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: .domain.category....
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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.
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How to restore mails from unix mbox file to imap server?
I accidentally let mutt to move all read emails from the server to local mbox file. How to restore mails to the server?
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Command line SMTP client with support of SASL authentication
Mutt (with compiled SMTP support) while sending a message can display the progress of the operation, but it only does that in the interactive mode. If one tries to run Mutt in the batch mode:
% mutt -...
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Bolding/underlining/strikethrough-ing text in mutt
Is there any way to bold, strike, or underline text in mutt?
For instance, I currently have a couple of lines in my muttrc to make URLs and email addresses blue text on white background:
color ...
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Mutt configuration
Currently I am using Thunderbird as a mail client, but I am not impressed with that..so planned to switch over mutt client. I have gone through mutt website http://www.mutt.org/doc but unable to ...
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