Questions tagged [neomutt]
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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…

Juan
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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…

rfs
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Toggling a group of settings in mutt/neomutt
I'm stumped on this one, and I'm embarrassed to say how long I've spent on it. I like to see threads in neomutt index, but I'd like to be able to toggle thread settings between these two settings:
# use threads
set use_threads=reverse sort=last-date…

Mark
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I'm running neomutt in a loop with Perl. The config values come from PostgreSQL, but neomutt only reads from files. How to imitate a file from Perl?
I run a while(1) loop in perl to pull out email addresses and each one's configuration values from PostgreSQL tables.
Right now, I write a temporary file and use neomutt -nF the_temp_file with system.
Then I unlink the file. Neomutt quits.
Then the…

ChrisB
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Enable mouse scrolling in message bodies in mutt
I want to enable mouse scrolling while looking in message bodies in mutt. I can scroll when the emails are listed but not inside the body of one of the email when I open it.
How can I achieve that?

weirdsmiley
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mutt (neomutt) can't access/show plain text attachment (body of message)
When trying to open/read an inline text/plain attachment (the body of a plain-text message) of a received message from the Attachments view in (Neo)mutt, I'm getting:
sh: /tmp/neomutt-x1-1000-1595035-6095510368090236182: Permission denied
Press any…

Robert Kratky
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Neomutt pager macro not executing
I have the following folder-hook with a macro in my Neomutt config:
folder-hook my-folder 'macro index,pager A N=Archive/`date +"%Y"`'
This works in the index menu, but not in…

H.A
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Nice formatting when sending gmail emails from mutt
I have been using mutt with my gmail account and recently got told that the emails I send look odd on some devices, particularly mobiles.
e.g.:
This is a wrapped sentence, and
it should display in a nice
fashion
but for some reason it does not
when…

FluidFox
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neomutt email white color when sending emails
We I try to send mail neomutt compose edit is all white. I know it is probray not my text editor because when ever I open neovim it looks fine and is not all white. It is only when I am in neomutt.
My code is:
# Default index colors:
color index…

liam
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How to make a script operate on several attachments in mutt?
I would like to select a folder with ranger, then use it to store several attachments. Thanks to Neomutt-File-Picker, I was able to write a small script to obtain a folder path, and use it to store one attachement. See my fork and (and commit) of…

rfs
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Adding folders to neomutt
I am trying to add a folder for archiving mail. I can not find how do this on the documentation. Can anyone help me?
I have tried adding
set archive = +archive
to my muttrc and make a folder named archive with new,cur,tmp in that folder.

darrion_tr1989
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binding t to noop still outputs "t will alias td" warning
I'm having a strange issue setting up neomutt bindings.
I'm trying to set up t + another key to assign tags to messages with notmuch. However, whenever I fire up neomutt, it complains that:
binding 't' will alias 'td' Before,try: 'bind index td…

Alessandro Macilenti
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Neomutt binding questions for unread emails and sidebar navigation
I'm working on setting up neomutt for the first time and have hit a couple of stumbling blocks with key bindings, and wanted to confirm if I was doing something wrong or if what I'm looking to do isn't possible.
Sidebar navigation
I've currently…

El_Birdo
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Store Neomutt Mails in External Disk
I have installed Neomutt on Arch Linux using Luke Smith's Mutt-Wizard. It's working fine. I am storing all my emails in my local laptop's ~/.config/mutt/accounts folder which is mentioned in my .muttrc file.
But I have thousands of emails. So I…

Joydeep
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Always attach PGP public key to outgoing emails
I'd like to always attach my PGP public key to outgoing emails, regardless of encryption/signing status. My vague hope is to encourage recipients to use it, or to get a dialog popup from their mail client to import it & encrypt future emails.
To do…

kmnns
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