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# mutt - Unix, Linux Command

# 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 -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

Tag | Description
--- | ---
-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.
-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, or exit immediately if none.

# ENVIRONMENT

Tag | Description
--- | ---
EDITOR | Specifies the editor to use if VISUAL is unset.
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 | Specifies the editor to use when composing messages.

# FILES

Tag | Description
--- | ---
~/.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 handling 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/bin/mutt_dotlock | The privileged dotlocking program.
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.4.2.2/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.

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