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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Mutt not attaching multiple files and sending attachment to server in python
So, I'm trying to use mutt to attach all .csv files in a folder and it's not cooperating. For some reason, it only attaches one of them and I thought I was doing it correctly. On a stranger note, mutt also sends the one .csv it actually attaches to…

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Issue Sending to Distribution List in Python
I have a report that I run everyday that I'm trying to send to a distribution list but am having one minor issue that is causing a big problem since it's not being sent to the appropriate people. It appears that if I try to send the report to a…

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No CSS styles seen in email
I am unable to see CSS styles when the following html page is emailed(Yahoo/Gmail) using mutt.I just see a plain table.But I get desired styling when viewed it in a browser. Why is that so ? Am I missing something ?
mutt -e "set…

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crontab mutt email fails to be sent
I have a crontab which is supposed to send an email, but it doesn't.
echo " ok backup " > /home/nuvoshift01/zDB-backup-start.txt
mysqldump --opt --user=q --password=xyz --host=localhost giladparking > /home/nuvoshift01/GPmonthly-DBdump.sql
mutt…

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Wrapping a MUTT email inside of another MUTT email (Journaling)
hey guys I've been trying to wrap my head around this for a couple days and am just losing it here, I am trying to journal a message, which (to us) means we take a typical responsive email, with your typical to / from and other special header, wrap…

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Revert all mutt custom config
I am trying to setup a two (maybe more) mailboxes in mutt with very different settings.
I have setup folder-hooks for each but it custom settings are not fully the same.
I wonder how to reset all custom settings setup for one mailbox before applying…

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personalize mutt's subject with variable
I've a script that send an email to user. I need to add a variable (name of new user) to subject. My example:
a="John";echo|mutt -s welcome$a -e 'my_hdr From:info@example.com ' test@example.com
Obviously this runs but the subject…

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Sending E-mail using MUTT in Ruby
I am completely new to Ruby. I want to send e-mails using MUTT in Ruby. Can someone redirect to good sites from where I can learn?

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Change sender's address in mutt via console
I want to dynamically set the sender's address when using mutt via console (not composing). I checked everything which is described, tried everything from this SO question but nothing works. There is no change at all, no matter what I do.
I set
set…

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Mutt and Maildir format + procmail sorting
1.) I'm a little confused about my Mutt configuration. I'm successfully using fetchmail and procmail to download and then sort all my messages in the "Maildir" format into the $HOME/Maildir/ which looks as follows:
$HOME/Maildir/
-work (cur, new,…

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Cronjob missing content from mail body, manually works fine
Edit: Solution found via Barmar's answer. Added full smartctl command path and it works via crontab now.
I have the below script:
#!/bin/bash
#set…

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bash script works in terminal, not as expected from Mutt (macro)
EDIT: Im not sure why it wasn't working before, but its working fine now.
I added an & (to background the script)and at the end of the macro also, but it works with out it
I would like to copy a password from my OS X keychain into my…

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Awk/Cut variable denying further use of mutt?
So I am building a script to check for files with certain errors in a bunch of files, based on output from an SQL DB. The file with the error shall be sent to me via mail.
The problem is that when I try to send the mail, I get the message…

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Mutt email not sending email with shell_exec
I'm tearing my hair trying to figure out why this could possibly not work when it works when executing from the command line. I'm sending a POV-Ray animation to the user after it is done rendering and compiling the frames into a GIF using…

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Nagios will not run external commands such as mutt and ec2 commands
I have Nagios up and running on an Amazon EC2 instance as their custom Linux and it is monitoring several processes (both on local and remote hosts) quite well. It is running my customs scripts without any issue.
That being said it will not run…

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