Questions tagged [mutt]

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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refresh OfflineIMAP on command

I need help writing a script to update offlineIMAP on demand. It will need to interrupt an already running instance of offlineIMAP, run an offlineIMAP sync, and then proceed with the normal sync updates every five minutes. (autorefresh = 5) A…
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Configuring mutt to handle the same attachment differently in auto_view than in an attachment view

I'd like to view text/html attachments inline with auto_view. That's easy enough, with a w3m -dump invocation in the .mailcap, and auto_view text/html in the .muttrc. The tricky part is that i'd still like to invoke a browser session when i view the…
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Error while using mutt :gnutls_handshake: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.!

I am getting this error "gnutls_handshake: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received." again and again while trying to use mutt. I am using Ubuntu 11.04 32-bit.I searched about the problem and couldn't found head and tail about it. Is it a OS…
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(Non-interactive/Line-oriented) command line email inbox viewer tool, configurable for any imap?

After using Taskwarrior to manage my todo list from the command line, I'd like to do something similar with email. A program that behaves like the below. Am I imagining something that doesn't exist, or can existing tools do this? I don't believe…
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How to preproccess my emails to have links to my attachments

I'm using mutt over ssh as my mail client. This works great, but looking at the attachments (mostly images) is a bit annoying. Now my idea is to parse the email, store the attachments on my server and create an URL for accessing the attachment and…
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Mutt - Accepting certificates from the command line?

I have a container from which I would like to be able to automatically send emails. I installed mutt in the container since it seems like a popular email client. My .muttrc file looks like this: # About Me set from = "my@email.com" set realname =…
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Mutt: Search/limit for messages from the same sender as currently selected message

When browsing my mail in mutt, I frequently want to look at all messages sent from a particular address. I can accomplish this by using limit and the search pattern: ~f somebody@example.com. I am trying to create a binding/macro from the index…
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Certain utf-8 characters break subject lines in mutt

Certain UTF-8 symbols break subject lines. I see this problem in konsole (ubuntu) and termux (android) terminals. Bad subject line: Subject: =?utf-8?B?4pqh77iP0JDQutGG0LjRjyDQt9Cw0LLQtdGA0YjQsNC10YLRgdGPISA=?= …
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using mutt or mailx to send an email

I am trying to use the 3rd answer on How can I send an email through the UNIX mailx command? to send an email. echo "body" | mutt -s "subject" example@example.com -y However when I do so, I don't get any email sent to me. Similarly I also tried…
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Mutt alias for two fields

When emailing to someone with mutt, I would like to have my messages automatically CC'd to someone. Typically, we are a team of academics working with a student, and I would like my exchanges with the student to be sent to others. Mutt aliases seems…
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MUTT - how to save sent messages (by different SMTP server) on the IMAP "[Gmail]/Sent Mail" folder

What I need to do is sending emails through my preferred SMTP server but saving those messages to my GMAIL account sent folder on the IMAP server. I am really struggling to do so. I can send no problem, but I can't save on the imap [Gmail]Sent Mail.…
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Prevent mutt sending email with missing attachments

While sending email with attachments I occasionally forget to attach the relevant files. How do I setup mutt and vim to prompt me to attach missing files?
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Have Django use Mutt as its email backend?

I know that you can use the EMAIL_BACKEND setting, and I think I have written a working mutt backend, but I can't set my EMAIL_BACKEND to my class because it apparently has to be the string import path, not the name of the class. The local path…
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Mutt- Could not connect to smtp.gmail.com (network is unreachable)

im trying to use mutt to send an email with one attachment, and i keep getting the error could not connect to smtp.gmail.com (Network is unreachable). one thing to note is that one week ago i tried to send email with the exact settings on my muttrc…
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Neomutt Pipe Attachments to Shell Program from Menu

The header of the attachments menu in neomutt gives the options q:Exit s:Save |:Pipe p:Print ?:Help I assumed that the Pipe option would allow me to pipe a chosen attachment to the shell. In particular, maybe I want to open a file in a way…
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