The Mutt E-Mail Client

by Michael Elkins <me@cs.hmc.edu>

1. Introduction

• 1.1 Mutt Home Page
• 1.2 Mailing Lists
• 1.3 Software Distribution Sites
• 1.4 IRC
• 1.5 USENET
• 1.6 Copyright

2. Getting Started

• 2.1 Moving Around in Menus
• 2.2 Editing Input Fields
• 2.3 Reading Mail - The Index and Pager
• 2.4 Sending Mail
• 2.5 Forwarding and Bouncing Mail
• 2.6 Postponing Mail

3. Configuration

• 3.1 Syntax of Initialization Files
• 3.2 Defining/Using aliases
• 3.3 Changing the default key bindings
• 3.4 Defining aliases for character sets
• 3.5 Setting variables based upon mailbox
• 3.6 Keyboard macros
• 3.7 Using color and mono video attributes
• 3.8 Ignoring (weeding) unwanted message headers
• 3.9 Mailing lists
• 3.10 Using Multiple spool mailboxes
• 3.11 Defining mailboxes which receive mail
• 3.12 User defined headers
• 3.13 Defining the order of headers when viewing messages
• 3.14 Specify default save filename
• 3.15 Specify default Fcc: mailbox when composing
• 3.16 Specify default save filename and default Fcc: mailbox at once
• 3.17 Change settings based upon message recipients
• 3.18 Choosing the PGP key of the recipient
• 3.19 Adding key sequences to the keyboard buffer
• 3.20 Message Scoring
• 3.21 Setting variables
• 3.22 Reading initialization commands from another file
• 3.23 Removing hooks

4. Advanced Usage

• 4.1 Regular Expressions
• 4.2 Patterns
• 4.3 Using Tags
• 4.4 Using Hooks
• 4.5 External Address Queries
• 4.6 Mailbox Formats
• 4.7 Mailbox Shortcuts
• 4.8 Handling Mailing Lists
• 4.9 Delivery Status Notification (DSN) Support
• 4.10 POP3 Support (OPTIONAL)
• 4.11 IMAP Support (OPTIONAL)
• 4.12 Start a WWW Browser on UR