mutt - The Mutt Mail User Agent

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 [-n] [-e cmd] [-F file] -Q query

mutt [-n] [-e cmd] [-F file] -A alias

mutt -v[v]

mutt -D

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.

-A alias

An expanded version of the given alias is passed to stdout.

-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

-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.

-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.

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.

~/.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/manual.txt.gz

The Mutt manual.

None. Mutts have fleas, not bugs.

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.

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.

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.

Michael Elkins, and others. Use <mutt-dev@mutt.org> to contact the developers.