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MUTTPROFILE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation MUTTPROFILE(1) NAME
muttprofile - Choose a Mutt Profile SYNOPSIS
muttprofile [-a|--active string] [-d|--dir directory] [-h|--help] [-p|--profile regexp] [-v|--view] [-V|--Version] [profile] DESCRIPTION
muttprofile is a simple utility to choose a profile to be used with Mutt email-client. It has two operating modes: command-line and inter- active. Muttprofile goes to interactive mode if no command-line arguments are present or option -v|--view is present without profile name. Muttprofile looks for profile files in the Mutt directory, opens them and looks for NAME and DESC definitions. It then creates a symbolic link to the profile chosen by the user. The rest of the work is done with a Mutt macro. USAGE
Interactive mode: Type the name of the profile and the program creates a symlink to load the profile. Press <tab> to complete, <ctrl-d> to see list of choices. Command-line options: -a | --active Set the name for active profile symlink, default is profile.active -d | --dir Set the Mutt directory, default is ~/.mutt -h | --help prints a short help and exits -p | --profile (Perl) Regexp to match profile files in Mutt directory -v | --view Instead of creating a symlink, view profile contents -V | --version prints the version information and exits (use --version for long and -V for short version) profile if profile exits, create the symlink to load it from Mutt, otherwise exit with error INSTALL
Muttprofile requires no installation, but you might have to check the first line of the file ("#!/usr/bin/perl -w") and change the path to perl if needed ('which perl' might be useful here :-) SETTING UP PROFILES
Muttprofile checks the profile files for the following information: # NAME: name for your profile # DESC: description of your profile This information is used for choosing and displaying available profiles. DESC is optional, but if NAME is missing, filename is used instead. USING MUTTPROFILE FROM MUTT
Perhaps the easiest way to invoke muttprofile from mutt is to bind a key with mutt macro command. For example, adding this to your mut- trc-file macro index <F10> "!muttprofile :source ~/.mutt/profile.active m" "New message with profile" binds the function key <F10> to start muttprofile, load the profile and start a new message EXIT CODES
The default exit codes for muttprofile are: 0 OK 1 PROFILE ALREADY ACTIVE 2 ERROR These codes can be used in shell scripts etc. FURTHER INFORMATION
Discussion of profiles with Mutt: http://www.iki.fi/martti.rahkila/mutt/ Mutt home page: http://www.mutt.org MODULES
muttprofile uses the perl modules "Term::Complete" and "Getopt::Long" that both come with the Perl distribution. LICENCE
muttprofile is distibuted under GNU General Public Licence (GPL), same as Mutt. For details, see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html BUGS
None known so far. Inevitably to appear sooner or later. VERSION
1.0.0 (current) First public release. 2000-05-10 Martti Rahkila AUTHOR
Martti Rahkila martti.rahkila@iki.fi http://www.iki.fi/martti.rahkila/mutt SEE ALSO
mutt(1), perl(1) perl v5.8.0 2003-01-15 MUTTPROFILE(1)
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mutt(1) User Manuals mutt(1) NAME
mutt - The Mutt Mail User Agent SYNOPSIS
mutt [-nRyzZ] [-e cmd] [-F file] [-m type] [-f file] mutt [-nx] [-e cmd] [-F file] [-H file] [-i file] [-s subj] [-b addr] [-c addr] [-a file [...] --] addr [...] mutt [-nx] [-e cmd] [-F file] [-s subj] [-b addr] [-c addr] [-a file [...] --] addr [...] < message mutt [-n] [-e cmd] [-F file] -p mutt [-n] [-e cmd] [-F file] -A alias mutt [-n] [-e cmd] [-F file] -Q query mutt -v[v] mutt -D DESCRIPTION
Mutt is a small but very powerful text based program for reading and sending electronic mail under unix operating systems, including sup- port for color terminals, MIME, OpenPGP, and a threaded sorting mode. Note: This manual page gives a brief overview of mutt's command line options. You should find a copy of the full manual in /usr/share/doc/packages/mutt, in text, HTML, and/or PDF format. OPTIONS
-A alias An expanded version of the given alias is passed to stdout. -a file [...] Attach a file to your message using MIME. When attaching single or multiple files, separating filenames and recipient addresses with "--" is mandatory, e.g. mutt -a image.jpg -- addr1 or mutt -a img.jpg *.png -- addr1 addr2. The -a option must be placed at the end of command line options. -b address Specify a blind-carbon-copy (BCC) recipient -c address Specify a carbon-copy (CC) recipient -d level If mutt was complied with +DEBUG log debugging output to ~/.muttdebug0. Level can range from 1-5 and effects verbosity. A value of 2 is recommended. -D Print the value of all configuration options to stdout. -e command Specify a configuration command to be run after processing of initialization files. -f mailbox Specify which mailbox to load. -F muttrc Specify an initialization file to read instead of ~/.muttrc -h Display help. -H draft Specify a draft file which contains header and body to use to send a message. -i include Specify a file to include into the body of a message. -m type specify a default mailbox type for newly created folders. -n Causes Mutt to bypass the system configuration file. -p Resume a postponed message. -Q query Query a configuration variables value. The query is executed after all configuration files have been parsed, and any commands given on the command line have been executed. -R Open a mailbox in read-only mode. -s subject Specify the subject of the message. -v Display the Mutt version number and compile-time definitions. -vv Display license and copyright information. -x Emulate the mailx compose mode. -y Start Mutt with a listing of all mailboxes specified by the mailboxes command. -z When used with -f, causes Mutt not to start if there are no messages in the mailbox. -Z Causes Mutt to open the first mailbox specified by the mailboxes command which contains new mail. -- Treat remaining arguments as addr even if they start with a dash. See also "-a" above. ENVIRONMENT
EDITOR Specifies the editor to use if VISUAL is unset. EMAIL The user's e-mail address. HOME Full path of the user's home directory. MAIL Full path of the user's spool mailbox. MAILDIR Full path of the user's spool mailbox if MAIL is unset. Commonly used when the spool mailbox is a maildir (5) folder. MAILCAPS Path to search for mailcap files. MM_NOASK If this variable is set, mailcap are always used without prompting first. PGPPATH Directory in which the user's PGP public keyring can be found. TMPDIR Directory in which temporary files are created. REPLYTO Default Reply-To address. VISUAL Specifies the editor to use when composing messages. FILES
~/.muttrc or ~/.mutt/muttrc User configuration file. /etc/Muttrc System-wide configuration file. /tmp/muttXXXXXX Temporary files created by Mutt. ~/.mailcap User definition for handling non-text MIME types. /etc/mailcap System definition for handling non-text MIME types. ~/.mime.types User's personal mapping between MIME types and file extensions. /etc/mime.types System mapping between MIME types and file extensions. /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock The privileged dotlocking program. /usr/share/doc/packages/mutt/manual.txt The Mutt manual. BUGS
None. Mutts have fleas, not bugs. FLEAS
Suspend/resume while editing a file with an external editor does not work under SunOS 4.x if you use the curses lib in /usr/5lib. It does work with the S-Lang library, however. Resizing the screen while using an external pager causes Mutt to go haywire on some systems. Suspend/resume does not work under Ultrix. The help line for the index menu is not updated if you change the bindings for one of the functions listed while Mutt is running. For a more up-to-date list of bugs, errm, fleas, please visit the mutt project's bug tracking system under http://bugs.mutt.org/. NO WARRANTIES
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER- CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. SEE ALSO
curses(3), mailcap(5), maildir(5), mbox(5), mutt_dotlock(1), muttrc(5), ncurses(3), sendmail(1), smail(1). Mutt Home Page: http://www.mutt.org/ The Mutt manual AUTHOR
Michael Elkins, and others. Use <mutt-dev@mutt.org> to contact the developers. Unix January 2009 mutt(1)