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Mutt is a text-based e-mail client for Unix-like systems

Mutt was originally written by Michael Elkins in 1995 and released under the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

The mutt slogan is "All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less".

Mutt supports most mail formats (notably both mbox and Maildir) and protocols (POP3, IMAP, etc.). It also includes MIME support, notably full PGP/GPG and S/MIME integration.

Mutt has hundreds of configuration directives and commands. It allows for changing all the key bindings and making keyboard macros for complex actions, as well as the colors and the layout of most of the interface. Through variants of a concept known as "hooks", many of its settings can be changed based on criteria such as current mailbox or outgoing message recipients. There are also many patches and extensions available that add functionality, such as NNTP support or a sidebar similar to those often found in graphical mail clients.

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how to use Gmail tabs with IMAP?

Is there any way to apply an IMAP label to only the messages under the "Primary" tab in my Gmail? I'd like to use a console-based email client like Mutt or Gnus or Wanderlust to reply to messages, but I only want to see messages which Gmail has…
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How do I open a link from an email in mutt (without using the mouse)?

One of the things I like about using Mutt is that I don't have to use the mouse pretty much at all. I get a lot of emails that contain links, though, whether they're validation ("click on this link to validate your account") or from Facebook or…
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Mutt and calendar?

Is there any calendar which works well with Mutt? Ideally it should be able to handle .ics files so I can import the meeting invitations my Outlook-using colleagues send me.
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How do I create a new folder in Mutt

I want to create a new folder from within Mutt. I use Maildir format to store the folders on the machine I am running Mutt on. (I also view the mail remotely using courier IMAP but this doesnt involve Mutt) Edited to clarify role of IMAP
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How do I filter or search email messages in Mutt by a flag?

For example , if I want to list only unseen/unread emails? I know you can use some sort of expressions when doing a search with / but not sure what is supported. Am I able to specify a flag based search for example?
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Mutt seems to sync to Gmail IMAP only on quit

I am using Mutt 1.5.20 in Mac OS X Terminal. I have a Google mail account whose mail I fetch via IMAP. I also use a Gmail notifier app to notify me of new e-mail messages. My experience with Mutt dates no later than 1 week. The trouble is this: When…
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Sending multipart/alternative with mutt

I'd like the option for certain emails and/or recipients to have a script run before sending (whether automatically or by pressing a keybinding) which takes my text/plain, runs a script over it, and then attaches the output of that script with the…
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Creating a multipart email and sending it in Linux

We use mutt to send out emails. mutt -s "Test" -e "Content-Type: text/html" test@example.com < message.html We send out our email updates in HTML format. We would like to send emails as multi-part containing both a text version and an html version.…
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OSX: Add Dock icon for dedicated Terminal command

I use Mutt. I want a dock icon to launch it. Is such a thing possible? I'm looking for a way to add a second Terminal icon to the Dock which lets me launch a specific command, "mutt" in this instance. I want to group this icon with the other app…
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merge multiple email accounts in single view in mutt

Recently, I have started to like the Unix philosophy more and more. One of the tools that I did not yet switch over is email. Mutt seems to be a very nice, lightweight and no-nonsense solution to reading email and I would therefore like to give it a…
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Read and unread in mutt

I use Thunderbird with IMAP and currently try out mutt. When I read messages in mutt, they are not marked as read in Thunderbird. In mutt, they are marked with N or O. I found out that I can toggle the new status (N) with the key N, but old messages…
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Problems with tmux, mutt, and terminal colors

If I start mutt in a tmux session like this: $ tmux new-session -s mutt mutt Mutt complains: Error in /home/lars/.mutt/colors, line 20: 230: color not supported by term Error in /home/lars/.mutt/colors, line 26: 244: color not supported by…
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Where does Mutt save attachment?

I use v to open attachment list and select an item and hit s to save it. Q1. Now where does Mutt save the attachment? Q2. How to define a directory where I want to save attachments? Thanks in advance.
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How can I set mutt as the default mail client when I click on a 'mailto' in a webpage?

I wanted to start mutt in terminal when I click on some mailto: tag in a webpage. Is that possible? Currently Firefox starts, which I really don't favor; it's slow loading and unnecessary.
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How to add multiple addresses CC and BCC in MUTT?

The documentation is not very clear to me as sending an email adding multiple email address as BCC and CC. Should I use: -b email@dom.com -b email2@dom.com or -b email1@dom.com email2@dom.com or should the emails be comma separated?
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