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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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character set encoding in mutt

This question is increasingly esoteric, as we generally migrate away from text-based email reading. But often, I read and send email using mutt. When I copy something from a web page (usually encoded as utf-8), and then paste it into mutt, I get…
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Is there a way to automatically e-mail after a long script is finished?

I am trying to run a long bash script overnight to get some data. I wanted to include a script that would automatically e-mail me the files after the scripts are completed. Is there a way to do this using mutt? I want something like below: sh…
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How to use variable inside mailboxes parameter?

I'm trying to configure mutt on Fedora 30 with user-defined variable (my_). To avoid repeating the same path name all over the place, I'd like to use a variable to specify the mailboxes location. I create the list of mailboxes using a shell…
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Setting starting cursor position in vim when replying in neomutt

When I reply to a message in neomutt, it opens the reply text in vim, as I intended. However, the initial cursor position is at the top of the headers, "From:", "To:", "Subject:" etc, and I have to manually move to the first line of reply text. How…
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isync (mbsync) on gmail marks mail as new after move to another folder

I'm trying to use (neo)mutt combined with isync (mbsync) for reading my mail from gmail account. However I have slight issue. When I use mutt to move mail to another folder, the message is marked as "new" again. Is there a way around this? Relevant…
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mutt - difference between account-hook and folder-hook

What is the difference between account hooks and folder hooks in Mutt? If I understand Mutt correctly, it can only have one IMAP connection open at a time. So why can't I just let an account hook to set up everything? What needs to be set in account…
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How to delete all mail attachments of a set of mails

In order to save diskspace, I would like to remove all file attachments of a set of mails (let's say 100) in one folder. I think this must be possible with Mutt and some scripting. For instance using the program altermime. Ideally, a note is left in…
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How to exit menu in mutt when for instance searching

I have accidentally pressed, say, n in mutt which puts me into search at the bottom of the screen Search for:. How do I exit from this if I don't want to search? I have tried esc and ctrl-c, but the first doesn't work and the second asks me whether…
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Mutt login failed in Ubuntu

Can someone please help me. I'm trying to configure mutt in Ubuntu and I'm using the following configuration in muttrc : set imap_user = "test@gmail.com" set imap_pass = "PASS" set smtp_url = "smtp://test@smtp.gmail.com:587/" set smtp_pass =…
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How to enable secure authentication (ssl,tls,starttls) in nullmailer 1.0.5. and upgrade nullmailer to 1.11

I am using a linux based device where we use nullmailer to send email using smtp. nullmailer version: 1.0.5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) In the existing mechanism, our smtp server does not have any authentication.It is just a plain…
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How to restart mutt to pick new configuration?

We use mutt in our prod servers to send mails. It uses sendgrid smtp url. Recently i changed sendgrid password in .muttrc file. Now i am getting following error: SASL authentication failed Could not send the message. I searched over net but could…
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how to send an email alert if a folder is modified

I want to get an email alert if a certain folder is modified but how do I pipe the output from the command so it sends an email not just show the changes to the folder in the terminal? something like the following but... gives an error on the email…
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Mutt Send Signature Hook

I've got a send hook setup in Mutt for my signature. I usually have a few links in my sig that one customer of mine doesn't like, their email always spits it back. So to fix this I made a new signature file just for this client and setup a send hook…
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Mutt won't send attachment

Been looking through some of the examples and I am obviously doing something wrong as none of them are working for me. I can send a simple email with text, but when I try to send an attachment it says "file not found". I am running these statements…
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OfflineIMAP and Mutt with Gmail's All Mail folder

OfflimeIMAP I am trying to sync my Gmail - All Mail folder with idlefolders through offlineimap. My .offlineimaprc config has this - idlefolders = ['INBOX', '[Gmail].All Mail'] My name of my All Mail folder in .mail (where my mailboxes are) looks…
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