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Mutt is an open-source CLI email client. It is highly customizable and fast. Lots of sorting and filtering criteria allow for highly efficient mail handling.

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How to change the sender's name or e-mail address in mutt?

How can I change the sender's name or e-mail address (From: header) used by mutt?
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How to start emacs server only if it is not started?

I'd like to use emacsclient to edit emails in Mutt. I added this in .emacs (server-start) And in .muttrc I added set editor="emacsclient -nw %s" It seems they work. When I start a second Emacs, it complains there is already a server running so it…
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How to move multiple messages in mutt

Before all of my messages were in one maildir. Now I want move all arch-general mail to another one. From here, I see: "move" as we know it from other places is "save" in mutt. "save" as we know it from other places is "copy" in mutt. ~e EXPR …
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Send Html page As Email using "mutt"

I have been using mutt to send emails from inside another application & it works fine. I have to send html files and currently I have to send them as attachments. So I use mutt -s "hi" -a attach.html user@domain.com < /dev/null But if I try to send…
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mutt: Error sending message, child exited 127 (Exec error.)

I have to send a mail with an attachment from a shell script. I am trying to do it using mutt as shown here: How do I send a file as an email attachment using Linux command line? Command: echo "This is the message body" | mutt -a…
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mutt command with multiple attachments in single mail unix

My requirement is to attach all the .csv files in a folder and send them in a single mail. Here is what have tried, mutt -s "subject" -a *.csv -- abc@gmail.com < subject.txt The above command is not working (It's not recognizing multiple files) and…
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Shortcut key for "reply all" function

When replying to an email in Mutt, I know that I can reply by just pressing the r key. But what if there were other people in the to and/or cc fields and I would like to reply to all of them? Long story short, is there any keyboard shortcut in Mutt…
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How do I tell Mutt to not store sent messages?

I'm trying to figure out how to disable storing sent messages in Mutt. Is there a record value in .muttrc that would make it happen?
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How to apply this mutt sidebar patch?

Since the homebrew guys now have removed the option of appying the mutt sidebar patch during installation i went searching and found someone who had created an updated mutt sidebar patch for version 1.5.22 of mutt (every mutt sidebar versions seems…
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Mutt macros: How to set and then use a variable in one macro?

I'm trying to write a small mutt macro that will set a variable, and then re-use that variable in the same macro. What I'm really trying to do is compose a message and sub in the To: address (which later I will populate dynamically). This is in my…
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How to manage Gmail labels in mutt

Is there a way to manage Gmail lables(Virtual folders) with mutt??
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mutt config: reply with address that mail was sent to

Okay so here's the deal. I've got a school email adress (say romeo@school.com) that is held on an outlook server. Because I really dislike outlook, I have this mail forwarded to a gmail address (say romeo@gmail.com). I've managed to set up mutt and…
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Mutt: Saving a message as a text file

I would like to save a message in Mutt as a text file somewhere outside of my maildir. For example, ~/documents/notes. I have found instructions for Saving Messages to Files which says that I should press either C or esc-C (depending on if I want…
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using mutt to send html email with an attachment

I have been using mutt for some to time to send plain text emails with a pdf attachment using: mutt -s "Subject" -a file.pdf < mybody.txt and html emails without an attachment using: mutt -e "my_hdr Content-Type: text/html" -s "Subject" <…
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What's in your .muttrc?

I've just begun using mutt (what started out as slowly stripping myself of GUI applications, ended up with me just being holed inside a terminal window), and while I've managed to fetch my mail from my IMAP server, there are some customizations I'd…
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