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mutt - The Mutt Mail User Agent

SYNOPSIS

    mutt [-hnpRvxyzZ] [-a file] [-b address] [-c address] [-e command] [-f mailbox] [-F muttrc] [-H draftfile] [-i include] [-m type] [-s subject]

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

      Attach a file to your message using MIME.

      Specify a blind-carbon-copy (BCC) recipient

      Specify a carbon-copy (CC) recipient

      Specify a configuration command to be run after processing of initialization files.

      Specify which mailbox to load.

      Specify an initialization file to read instead of ~/.muttrc

      Display help.

      Specify a draft file which contains header and body to use to send a message.

      Specify a file to include into the body of a message.

      specify a default mailbox type

      Causes Mutt to bypass the system configuration file.

      Resume a postponed message.

      Open a mailbox in read-only mode.

      Specify the subject of the message.

      Display the Mutt version number and compile-time definitions.

      Emulate the mailx compose mode.

      Start Mutt with a listing of all mailboxes specified by the mailboxes command.

      When used with -f, causes Mutt not to start if there are no messages in the mailbox.

      Causes Mutt to open the first mailbox specified by the mailboxes command which contains new mail.

ENVIRONMENT

      Editor to invoke when composing a message.

      Full path of the user's home directory.

      Full path of the user's spool mailbox.

      Path to search for mailcap files.

      If this variable is set, mailcap are always used without prompting first.

      Directory in which the user's PGP public keyring can be found.

      Directory in which temporary files are created.

      Default Reply-To address.

      Editor to invoke when the ~v command is given in the builtin editor.

FILES

      User configuration file.

      System-wide configuration file.

      Temporary files created by Mutt.

      User definition for handling non-text MIME types.

      System definition for handing non-text MIME types.

      User's personal mapping between MIME types and file extensions.

      System mapping between MIME types and file extensions.

      The privileged dotlocking program.

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.

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

    - muttrc (5) - curses(3) mutt_dotlock(1) ncurses(3) sendmail(1) smail(1) mailcap(5)

    Mutt Home Page: http://www mutt org/

    The GNU General Public License

AUTHOR

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