[ANN] Woodnotes Guide to Mutt
RSWood
About 4 years ago I published the first version of my Woodnotes Guide to
Using Mutt, and it's grown and evolved since then. Over 14,000 people have
downloaded it, and it's free and published under the CCC.
I just updated it last week. If this is useful to anyone, you can find it
at: http://therandymon.com/content/view/42/98/
Table of Contents follows. Happy Mutting.
Contents
1. Introduction - Why Mutt?
2. Usage: The Basics
Getting Help
Reading Messages
Your Inbox (Index View)
Sorting and Threading Messages in the Index View
Reading Messages (Pager View)
Deleting Messages
Composing Messages and Saving Drafts (Postponing Messages)
Attachments
Forwarding Attachments
Deleting and Undeleting Attachments
Printing Messages
Reading Mail in Other Folders
Special case: IMAP Shared Folders:
Saving Messages to Files
Operating on Multiple Messages
Selection Patterns
Tagging and Flags
Limiting Messages Shown
Using Patterns to Archive Groups of Messages
Using the Address Book
3. Configuring Mutt
Basic Configuration
Setting Up Your Mail Accounts
Downloading from a server (POP3)
Getting your mail:
Sending your mail:
Accessing your Mail at the Server (IMAP)
Getting your mail:
Header Caching:
Sending your mail:
Offline IMAP
Getting your mail:
Sending your mail:
Sending Mail: Sendmail and Friends
Sendmail:
Mutt's own SMTP:
SSMTP:
Putmail.py:
Others:
Your Sent Mail box
Configuring Your Address Book
Alias File
Abook
Querying an LDAP Server
The Little Brother Database
Rolo Addressbook
Choosing an Editor
General Settings
Dealing with HTML Messages
Dealing with Attachments
Dealing with Word Doc Attachments
Dealing with URLs in Messages
4. Advanced Customization
Using Mutt with different configurations
Configuring Colors
Rebinding Keyboard Shortcuts
Writing Macros
Changing the Index View
Changing the Pager View
Dealing with non-ASCII Character Sets
Dealing With Particularly Troublesome Characters
Advanced Printing: Mutt-Print
Hooks for Sending, Accounts, and More
5. Other Resources and More Information
Information and Tips
Other Software with which Mutt Interfaces
Appendix: Patterns
Appendix: Functions available for Macros
Generic Functions
The Index
The Pager
Aliases
Queries
The Attach menu
The Compose menu
The Postpone menu
Browser
PGP
The Editor
Appendix: Acknowledgments and License
Appendix: Version History
About this document ...
andrew
> About 4 years ago I published the first version of my Woodnotes Guide to
> Using Mutt, and it's grown and evolved since then. Over 14,000 people have
> downloaded it, and it's free and published under the CCC.
>
> I just updated it last week. If this is useful to anyone, you can find it
> at: http://therandymon.com/content/view/42/98/
Thanks again for making this available, my early days with mutt were
helped out immensely by your guide and I still dip in from time to time :).
Andrew
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RSWood
And thanks for saying 'thanks.' It's the only thing I earn off of this
thing :) Glad it has been useful to you. Mutt remains the #1 reason I
stay on Linux.
raf
your site is amazing. Thanks for posting.
--
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Push something hard enough and it will fall over.
Ian Gregory
> And thanks for saying 'thanks.' It's the only thing I earn off of this
> thing :) Glad it has been useful to you. Mutt remains the #1 reason I
> stay on Linux.
I started using Mutt on Solaris at work. When I came to buy my own
computer it had to run Mutt - so I got a Mac:-) Mac OS X does not come
with Mutt but it is easy enough to install - I get it using MacPorts.
I also install lbdb (Little Brother's Database) so that Mutt can access
the Mac AddressBook application with:
set query_command = "/opt/local/bin/lbdbq '%s'"
I assume there must be some way to get Mutt running on a Windows box but
there are plenty of other reasons for not running Windows:-)
I haven't really used your guide because I learned Mutt the hard way
ages ago. But I have had a quick look and it looks pretty good - just
the sort of thing I would have found useful when I was starting.
Ian
--
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http://www.zenatode.org.uk/ian/
Indi
>
> About 4 years ago I published the first version of my Woodnotes Guide to
> Using Mutt, and it's grown and evolved since then. Over 14,000 people have
> downloaded it, and it's free and published under the CCC.
>
> I just updated it last week. If this is useful to anyone, you can find it
> at: http://therandymon.com/content/view/42/98/
>
Nice job!
I downloaded to have a look, and felt a bit vindicated to see that you
reccomend multiple .muttrc files for multiple accounts. That is exactly
what I've been doing, as my experiments doing it with account hooks,
folder hooks, and even mutt profiles proved unreliable and buggy in
implementation (emails sent from wrong accounts, folders showing up in
wrong accounts, etc).
If I'd had your guide when I started with mutt it would have saved me
many hours of fiddling.
--
Cheers,
indi
_JusSx_
>
> About 4 years ago I published the first version of my Woodnotes Guide to
> Using Mutt, and it's grown and evolved since then. Over 14,000 people have
> downloaded it, and it's free and published under the CCC.
I love your "Woodnotes Guides"
thank you very much...
--
Linux is only free if your time has no value
David Combs
Surely I'm doing something wrong, but I go there, and
see nothing. ???
Here is where I went (gotten from the address-field in
firefox):
http://therandymon.com/content/view/42/98/
That is the right place, I think?
Just to be sure that I see your response, you
can in addition email me at:
Thanks!
David
(Yes, I could sure use a tutorial on mutt!)
Scott B.
> In article <200912121...@usenet.piggo.com>,
> _JusSx_ <jussx0@[spamhere]yahoo.it> wrote:
>>On 2009-12-06, RSWood <rsw...@therandymon.com> wrote:
>>> Greetings:
>>>
>>> About 4 years ago I published the first version of my Woodnotes Guide to
>>> Using Mutt, and it's grown and evolved since then. Over 14,000 people have
>>> downloaded it, and it's free and published under the CCC.
>>> ...
>>
>>I love your "Woodnotes Guides"
>>thank you very much...
>>
>>--
>>Linux is only free if your time has no value
>
> Surely I'm doing something wrong, but I go there, and
> see nothing. ???
>
>
> Here is where I went (gotten from the address-field in
> firefox):
> http://therandymon.com/content/view/42/98/
That URL works for me (Linux Opera)
[snip]
> (Yes, I could sure use a tutorial on mutt!)
I like the "My First Mutt" website:
http://mutt.blackfish.org.uk/
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RSWood
>
> Surely I'm doing something wrong, but I go there, and
> see nothing. ???
>
I'm not sure what the trouble is. If you go to
http://therandymon.com/content/view/42/98/ you will see links to both the
PDF and HTML versions. Email me if you have trouble and just want me to
email it to you (no charge, ha ha).
RSWood
Also excellent.