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Mutt is an open-source CLI email client. It is highly customizable and fast. Lots of sorting and filtering criteria allow for highly efficient mail handling.

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How to use script output as path for attachement in mutt?

Here's what I want to do: I've composed a mail in mutt. Now I want to add an attachement by executing a script which prints a path, which is the file which should be attached. I want to be able to do this from within mutt. Use-case: Add a iCal/vCard…
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Failed Communication Between Already-Running MacVim Instance and Mutt

I am using the mutt email client and am trying to use MacVim as my editor. I have set editor = "mvim --remote". The --remote option to mvim opens a file in an existing instance of MacVim instead of opening a new window. While this successfully opens…
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find file then select for mutt attachment

I am looking to streamline sending attachments with a fixed body message using the following bash script, #!/bin/sh echo "body of message" | mutt -s "subject" -a $(find /path/to/dir -type f -name "*$1*") -- $2 < /dev/null however, sometimes the…
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mutt No such file or directory

I am getting Can't stat filename No such file or directory when using mutt. The csv file creates fine, my php mutt code is : exec("export EMAIL=from_email && /bin/echo 'message' | /usr/bin/mutt -s 'subject' -a '$filename' -- 'email1@test.com…
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handling string encoding from mutt to abook

I noticed that abook, a popular mutt address book, doesn't handle differently encoded strings from mutt properly. Specifically: # .muttrc macro index,pager A "abook --add-email-quiet" "add the sender address to abook" output…
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replace a key in a file by a sentence with spaces and special characters

I searched a means to replace an identified key in a file html by an sentence with spaces and special characters. I tried to use sed but I'd get many errors because the sentence may contains many characters. My shell script : ... cp $HTML_TEMPLATE…
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How do I view my gmail chat/hangout history inside Mutt?

Mutt will not allow me to move to the "Chats" folder, although it is clearly visible when viewed with a web browser. The folder is simply not displayed in Mutt. I am able to see all my chat history by using the search query "label:chat", so I…
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mutt: how can I open a subfolder that has subfolders?

I want to start using mutt again after about 15 years. I first want to use it to access my gmail account. I'm running into a simple problem now: how to open a subfolder (tag in gmail) that has subfolders of its own? When I go to TODO/ and press…
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mutt automatically add CR to newline when attaching a file?

I have just started using Mutt and I have a minimal configuration just to be able to send mail. I can send mail OK, the problem is when I try to attach a source file, the file's new line characters are automatically translated from LF to CRLF. I can…
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Mutt skip compose menu

Are there any command line options/flags/ways to compose a message with mutt and skip the interface entirely? For example, when I run something like mutt -i ~/output.txt -s 'Test results' name@domain.com I don't want 3 editor windows and a compose…
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Unable to read mails using Mutt client for gmail

This might be a bit off topic but i need a text based mail client. I have configured mutt client for my gmail account as stated in the link http://lifehacker.com/5574557/how-to-use-the-fast-and-powerful-mutt-email-client-with-gmail I am able to…
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Mutt, how to stop mutt from changing email names

I recently switched to Mutt. Being able to backing up emails sounds cool. I use rsync to do so but I have a big headache. I use Maildir format. Each time Mutt opens an email, it changes the file name of the email, e.g. it likes to add one ",S" to…
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Linux - Formating subject and words in an email using mutt

I'm having some trouble to learn Linux and do some simple tasks, like the following: I'm using MUTT to send an email with an attachment, but i need to format the text inside the email and in the subject. How can i make "ç", "ã" and spaces between…
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Mutt mail program sporadically delivering emails

first of all, I have to say that this is completely my fault. I did a stupid thing. I sent myself the same email 10,000 times from a shell script. Out of curiosity, really. Who hasn't wondered how long it would take their computer to send 10,000…
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Sending email with Ruby through mutt

I'm trying to send an email in this way: path_to_file="/home/username/tmp/filename.html" subject="My Subject" to.each do |address| cmd = "`echo \"#{body}\" | mutt -s \"#{subject}\" #{address} -a #{path_to_file}`" system(cmd) end …
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