mutt(1) User Manuals mutt(1) NAME mutt - The Mutt Mail User Agent SYNOPSIS mutt [-nRyzZ] [-e cmd] [-F file] [-m type] [-f file] mutt [-nx] [-e cmd] [-F file] [-H file] [-i file] [-s subj] [-b addr] [-c addr] [-a file [...]] [--] addr [...] mutt [-n] [-e cmd] [-F file] -p mutt [-n] [-e cmd] [-F file] -A alias mutt [-n] [-e cmd] [-F file] -Q query mutt -v[v] mutt -D DESCRIPTION Mutt is a small but very powerful text based program for reading and sending electronic mail under unix operating systems, including support for color terminals, MIME, OpenPGP, and a threaded sorting mode. OPTIONS -A alias An expanded version of the given alias is passed to stdout. -a file [...] Attach a file to your message using MIME. To attach multiple files, separating filenames and recipient addresses with "--" is mandatory, e.g. mutt -a img.jpg *.png -- addr1 addr2. -b address Specify a blind-carbon-copy (BCC) recipient -c address Specify a carbon-copy (CC) recipient -d level If mutt was complied with +DEBUG log debugging output to ~/.muttdebug0. Level can range from 1-5 and effects verbosity. A value of 2 is recommended. -D Print the value of all configuration options to stdout. -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. -Q query Query a configuration variables value. The query is executed after all configuration files have been parsed, and any commands given on the command line have been executed. -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. -vv Display license and copyright information. -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 mes sages in the mailbox. -Z Causes Mutt to open the first mailbox specified by the mailboxes command which contains new mail. -- Treat remaining arguments as addr even if they start with a dash. See also "-a" above. ENVIRONMENT EDITOR Specifies the editor to use if VISUAL is unset. EMAIL The users e-mail address. HOME Full path of the users home directory. MAIL Full path of the users spool mailbox. MAILDIR Full path of the users 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 prompt ing first. PGPPATH Directory in which the users 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 ~/.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 Users 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/manual.txt.gz 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 bind ings 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 projects bug tracking system under http://bugs.mutt.org/. NO WARRANTIES This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. SEE ALSO curses(3), 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 AUTHOR Michael Elkins, and others. Use to contact the developers. Unix March 2007 mutt(1)