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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What does the mailboxes command do in mutt config?
I'm having a hard time understanding the structure of mutt's configuration. The spoolfile setting is where the list of messages when you first start is located. The folder is the top level directory for choosing folders when you press "c?". What are…

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mutt: garbage characters in mail titles
I compiled Mutt from the source. When I connect to my IMAP mailbox, some mails (but not all) have incorrect titles:
21 F 10/19 To Someone (0.4K) M-b~T~LM-b~T~@>
22 r + 10/19 Someone (1.0K) M-b~T~LM-b~T~@>
23 F 10/19 To Someone…

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Mutt e-mail client development ended?
Has development on Mutt (the e-mail client) ended? I can't figure it out from the Wiki page. How would I go about pushing a patch upstream if I had one? (so far, I just have something that works for me).
Incidentally: are there many people using it…

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Mutt add file erasing to rc command
I currently have this line in my muttrc file to add any address to my google contacts.
macro index,pager a "goobook add" "Add sender's address to your Google contacts"
Problem is that when it does that I have to then go in…

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Sending a Mutt eMail from PHP script
I have a phone system that calls a PHP script to send an email after a call. Right now my server is set up to send it with sendmail but I'm switching over to use Mutt to send the emails. the line in my php that sends the email right now is…

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VIM Tab then goto line if line not empty
I have been trying this now for about an hour and I can't seem to get it to work at all! ha ha
This is what I have:
function! Tabber()
let l2=getline(".")
if l2[:2] == 'To:'
if len(l2) > 4
exe "silent! normal 5Gi"
else
exe…

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How to split a line stored in a file into strings(bash)
I have a file of the format
email1 "subject of email1" "body of email1"
email2 "subject of email2" "body of email2"
I want to send emails to all the email ids, with subject and body picked from this file.
I have tried something like the…

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Why mutt doesn't send emails with systemd?
I wrote a bash script that checks if the external IP of my home network has changed. If so, it sends an email via mutt to my personal email address with notification that the IP has changed and prints the new IP address.
The program works fine on…

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Mutt Configuration Based on Current Hostname
I am specifically writing this from the perspective of running Mutt from multiple hosts, but a single source-code-controlled configuration file. Leave it to the devops side that "all" host configurations are being kept adequately in-sync.
So,…

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Unix command output to HTML file
I am building a log file and sending it as mutt in html format.
I am using copy command in verbose mode to output to HTML file format.
cp -v files name
output inside html file
'filename' -> 'filename'
I believe the ' is causing my html file to be…

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Can't set From using mail command in bash
I am at my wits end....
All I want to do is set the From using a command line mail in a script.
I have tried mutt, mail, mailx...
Here is on command I tried:
echo "Once again" | mail -s "Maybe this time" -A file.csv stevec@isonas.com -r 'John…

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Using postfix for private network
We have a custom based hardware running Linux. It generates a daily report by a script which is executed by cron.
Our requirement is to have all the devices on the private network send an email with this daily report (.txt) file as an attachment.
I…

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C program is interrupted during the execution of “system” function
I have a problem with my C code, basically I need to send email via mutt program. It must be send when an interrupt comes up from GPIO pin. My sendMail function is listed below. I realized this by using system function. Main contains loop with…

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Send mail in php script with attachment on Ubuntu server
I want to send a mail with attachments using php script on Ubuntu. I have tried mutt, mailx but they all work at local terminal when I execute them using shell_exec() they arr not working. Plz help me
Ps :- I am beginner dnt have much knowledge…

Arun singh
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Bash check empty output and disable script execution in one line
Task: Scan viruses with clamav and report if infected files exists
one line script
clamscan -ir --exclude=/proc --exclude=/sys --exclude=/dev / | grep "Infected files: [1-9].*" -z | mutt -s 'Viruses detected' -- email1@domain.com email2@domain.com…

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