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</style></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 1. Introduction</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gettingstarted.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="chapter"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="intro"></a>Chapter 1. Introduction</h1></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="intro.html#homepage">1. Mutt Home Page</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="intro.html#muttlists">2. Mailing Lists</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="intro.html#distribution">3. Getting Mutt</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="intro.html#irc">4. Mutt Online Resources</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="intro.html#contrib">5. Contributing to Mutt</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="intro.html#typo">6. Typographical Conventions</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="intro.html#copyright">7. Copyright</a></span></dt></dl></div><p>
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<span class="bold"><strong>Mutt</strong></span> is a small but very powerful
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text-based MIME mail client. Mutt is highly configurable, and is well
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suited to the mail power user with advanced features like key bindings,
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keyboard macros, mail threading, regular expression searches and a
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powerful pattern matching language for selecting groups of messages.
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</p><div class="sect1"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="homepage"></a>1. Mutt Home Page</h2></div></div></div><p>
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The official homepage can be found at
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<a class="ulink" href="http://www.mutt.org/" target="_top">http://www.mutt.org/</a>.
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</p></div><div class="sect1"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="muttlists"></a>2. Mailing Lists</h2></div></div></div><p>
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To subscribe to one of the following mailing lists, send a message with
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the word <span class="emphasis"><em>subscribe</em></span> in the body to
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<span class="emphasis"><em>list-name</em></span><code class="literal">-request@mutt.org</code>.
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</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p>
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<code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:mutt-announce-request@mutt.org">mutt-announce-request@mutt.org</a>></code> — low traffic list for
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announcements
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</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
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<code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:mutt-users-request@mutt.org">mutt-users-request@mutt.org</a>></code> — users help users
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</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
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<code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:mutt-dev-request@mutt.org">mutt-dev-request@mutt.org</a>></code> — patches, bug reports, feature requests
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</p></li></ul></div><p>
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All messages posted to <span class="emphasis"><em>mutt-announce</em></span> are
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automatically forwarded to <span class="emphasis"><em>mutt-users</em></span>, so you do
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not need to be subscribed to both lists.
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</p><p>
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NOTE: You MUST be subscribed to a list in order to post to it.
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This is not to make your life harder,
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but to reduce SPAM and/or UCE.
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The mailing list software being used is GNU Mailman,
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with its implied deficiencies.
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</p></div><div class="sect1"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="distribution"></a>3. Getting Mutt</h2></div></div></div><p>
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Mutt releases can be downloaded from <a class="ulink" href="ftp://ftp.mutt.org/pub/mutt/" target="_top">ftp://ftp.mutt.org/pub/mutt/</a>. For a
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list of mirror sites, please refer to <a class="ulink" href="http://www.mutt.org/download.html" target="_top">http://www.mutt.org/download.html</a>.
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</p><p>
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For version control access, please refer to the
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<a class="ulink" href="https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt" target="_top">Mutt development site</a>.
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</p></div><div class="sect1"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="irc"></a>4. Mutt Online Resources</h2></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term">Bug Tracking System</span></dt><dd><p>
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The official Mutt bug tracking system (not for feature requests) can be found at
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<a class="ulink" href="https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/issues" target="_top">https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/issues</a>
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</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Wiki</span></dt><dd><p>
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An (unofficial) wiki can be found
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at <a class="ulink" href="https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/wikis/home" target="_top">https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/wikis/home</a>.
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</p></dd><dt><span class="term">IRC</span></dt><dd><p>
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For the IRC user community, visit channel <span class="emphasis"><em>#mutt</em></span> on
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<a class="ulink" href="https://libera.chat/" target="_top">irc.libera.chat</a>.
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</p></dd><dt><span class="term">USENET</span></dt><dd><p>
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For USENET, see the newsgroup <a class="ulink" href="news:comp.mail.mutt" target="_top">comp.mail.mutt</a>.
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</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect1"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="contrib"></a>5. Contributing to Mutt</h2></div></div></div><p>
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There are various ways to contribute to the Mutt project.
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</p><p>
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Especially for new users it may be helpful to meet other new and
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experienced users to chat about Mutt, talk about problems and share
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tricks.
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</p><p>
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Since translations of Mutt into other languages are highly appreciated,
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the Mutt developers always look for skilled translators that help
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improve and continue to maintain stale translations.
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</p><p>
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For contributing code patches for new features and bug fixes, please
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refer to the developer pages at
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<a class="ulink" href="https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt" target="_top">https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt</a> for more details.
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</p></div><div class="sect1"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="typo"></a>6. Typographical Conventions</h2></div></div></div><p>
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This section lists typographical conventions followed throughout this
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manual. See table <a class="xref" href="intro.html#tab-typo" title="Table 1.1. Typographical conventions for special terms">Table 1.1, “Typographical conventions for special terms”</a> for typographical
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conventions for special terms.
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</p><div class="table"><a id="tab-typo"></a><p class="title"><strong>Table 1.1. Typographical conventions for special terms</strong></p><div class="table-contents"><table class="table" summary="Typographical conventions for special terms" border="1"><colgroup><col /><col /></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Item</th><th>Refers to...</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code class="literal">printf(3)</code></td><td>UNIX manual pages, execute <code class="literal">man 3 printf</code></td></tr><tr><td><code class="literal"><PageUp></code></td><td>named keys</td></tr><tr><td><code class="literal"><create-alias></code></td><td>named Mutt function</td></tr><tr><td><code class="literal">^G</code></td><td>Control+G key combination</td></tr><tr><td>$mail_check</td><td>Mutt configuration option</td></tr><tr><td><code class="literal">$HOME</code></td><td>environment variable</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br class="table-break" /><p>
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Examples are presented as:
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</p><pre class="screen">
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mutt -v
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</pre><p>
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Within command synopsis, curly brackets (<span class="quote">“<span class="quote">{}</span>”</span>) denote a set
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of options of which one is mandatory, square brackets
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(<span class="quote">“<span class="quote">[]</span>”</span>) denote optional arguments, three dots
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denote that the argument may be repeated arbitrary times.
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</p></div><div class="sect1"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="copyright"></a>7. Copyright</h2></div></div></div><p>
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Mutt is Copyright © 1996-2026 Michael R. Elkins
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<code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:me@mutt.org">me@mutt.org</a>></code> and others.
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</p><p>
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
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Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
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option) any later version.
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</p><p>
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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General Public License for more details.
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</p><p>
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
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with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
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51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
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</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"> </td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gettingstarted.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">The Mutt E-Mail Client </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 2. Getting Started</td></tr></table></div></body></html> |