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)

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