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NAME

       mutt - The Mutt Mail User Agent

SYNOPSIS

       mutt [-nRyzZ] [-e cmd] [-F file] [-m type] [-f file]

       mutt [-nx] [-e cmd] [-a file] [-F file] [-H file] [-i file] [-s subj] [-b addr] [-c addr] addr [...]

       mutt [-n] [-e cmd] [-F file] -p

       mutt -v[v]

DESCRIPTION

       Mutt is a small but very powerful text based program for reading electronic mail under unix operating systems, including support color ter-
       minals, MIME, and a threaded sorting mode.

OPTIONS

       -a file
	      Attach a file to your message using MIME.

       -b address
	      Specify a blind-carbon-copy (BCC) recipient

       -c address
	      Specify a carbon-copy (CC) recipient

       -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

       -n     Causes Mutt to bypass the system configuration file.

       -p     Resume a postponed message.

       -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.

       -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.

ENVIRONMENT

       EDITOR Editor to invoke when composing a message.

       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.  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 Editor to invoke when the ~v command is given in the builtin editor.

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 handing 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/mutt-1.4/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.guug.de/.  To report
       a bug, please use the flea(1) program.

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), flea(1), 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

       The GNU General Public License.

AUTHOR

       Michael Elkins, and others.  Use <mutt-dev@mutt.org> to contact the developers.

Unix								     June 2001								   mutt(1)