mutt(1) User Manuals mutt(1)NAMEmutt - The Mutt Mail User Agent
SYNOPSISmutt [-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-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 mes-
sage.
-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 speci-
fied 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
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 mes-
sages.
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
User's personal mapping between MIME types and file
extensions.
/etc/mime.types
System mapping between MIME types and file exten-
sions.
/usr/local/bin/mutt_dotlock
The privileged dotlocking program.
/usr/local/doc/mutt/manual.txt
The Mutt manual.
BUGS
None. Mutts have fleas, not bugs.
FLEAS
Suspend/resume while editing a file with an external edi-
tor 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 ALSOcurses(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.
Unix June 2001 mutt(1)
