muttprofile - Choose a Mutt Profile

muttprofile [-a|--active string] [-d|--dir directory] [-h|--help] [-p|--profile regexp] [-v|--view] [-V|--Version] [profile]

muttprofile is a simple utility to choose a profile to be used with Mutt email-client. It has two operating modes: command-line and interactive. Muttprofile goes to interactive mode if no command-line arguments are present or option -v|--view is present without profile name.

Muttprofile looks for profile files in the Mutt directory, opens them and looks for NAME and DESC definitions. It then creates a symbolic link to the profile chosen by the user. The rest of the work is done with a Mutt macro.

Interactive mode:

Type the name of the profile and the program creates a symlink to load the profile. Press <tab> to complete, <ctrl-d> to see list of choices.

Command-line options:

-a | --active Set the name for active profile symlink, default is profile.active

-d | --dir Set the Mutt directory, default is ~/.mutt

-h | --help prints a short help and exits

-p | --profile (Perl) Regexp to match profile files in Mutt directory

-v | --view Instead of creating a symlink, view profile contents

-V | --version prints the version information and exits (use --version for long and -V for short version)

profile if profile exits, create the symlink to load it from Mutt, otherwise exit with error

Muttprofile requires no installation, but you might have to check the first line of the file (CW#!/usr/bin/perl -w) and change the path to perl if needed (CW'which perl' might be useful here :-)

Muttprofile checks the profile files for the following information:

# NAME: name for your profile

# DESC: description of your profile

This information is used for choosing and displaying available profiles. DESC is optional, but if NAME is missing, filename is used instead.

Perhaps the easiest way to invoke muttprofile from mutt is to bind a key with mutt macro command. For example, adding this to your muttrc-file

macro index <F10> !muttprofile\n:source ~/.mutt/profile.active\nm New message with profile

binds the function key <F10> to start muttprofile, load the profile and start a new message

The default exit codes for muttprofile are:

    0 OK
    1 PROFILE ALREADY ACTIVE
    2 ERROR

These codes can be used in shell scripts etc.

Discussion of profiles with Mutt: http://www.iki.fi/martti.rahkila/mutt/

Mutt home page: http://www.mutt.org

muttprofile requires Mutt (obviously :-) and Perl version 5 or later.

The required perl modules are CWTerm::Complete and CWGetopt::Long that both come with the Perl distribution.

Please note that the CWTerm::Complete module in Perl 5.8.0 may produce an error. This has been fixed in Perl 5.8.1.

muttprofile is distibuted under GNU General Public Licence (GPL), same as Mutt. For details, see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

No known bugs at the moment. Inevitably to appear sooner or later.

1.0.1 (current)

Two bugfixes, details can be found from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=218957 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=218960

Additional bugfix regarding a case when active profile exist but is a file instead of symlink.

2003-11-20 Martti Rahkila

1.0.0

First public release.

2000-05-10 Martti Rahkila

  Martti Rahkila
  martti.rahkila@iki.fi
  http://www.iki.fi/martti.rahkila/mutt

mutt(1), perl(1)