Mutt commands for people familiar with Outlook
Reply All
to reply to all press g with the relavent email selected or open it and press g
Sorting
to sort the list of emails press o and then select a letter from the the list
To change to another email folder (IMAP Folder)
press c and then press ? to get a list of folders press enter to open the folder you select
Access the Mutt Address Book
Add an alias entry in muttrc to keep the addresses seperate
set alias_file = "~/.mutt/.mutt_alias"
When in mutt open an email and then hit "a" to open the alias mode and follow prompts to open it properly
Select all messages in a folder
T ~A
Delete all the messages in a folder
D ~A
Forward multiple attachments from an email message
select the email in mutt and open it (press enter or space once it is selected) press v to view the attachment list
arrow down to the first attachment you want to forward and press t to tag it (an * will appear beside it to show it's selected)
select each additional attachment using the arrow keys and t (pressing
t will move the selection to the next attachment if you want to select
it too press t again or arrow to each attachment and press t)
the `f' key tells mutt to forward a tagged attachment, but we want to
forward ALL tagged attachments. This is done by pressing ; and then f
You will be then prompted by a To: simply enter the address and complete the email as normal
Delete attachments
If you find you have selected too many attachments simply select the
attachment in the list and use D to delete the attached file
View email messages in mutt that are nested in nested folders
With Maildir format you can have email messages and folders nested
inside folders not just folders contain only other folders or only
email messages
To view these you need to be able change IMAP folders and recognize when there are email messages to view
To change folders in IMAP under mutt
press c
press TAB or ? to get a list of folders to change to
you should see a list an example follows
the plus sign after the IMAP tells us that there are
folders nested inside the folder listed on the right hand side.
1
IMAP
Drafts
2 IMAP
+
Finance.
3
IMAP
House
4
IMAP
INBOX
5
IMAP
Jetstar
6 IMAP
+
Lists.
7
IMAP
Outbox
8 IMAP
+
Registrations.
9
IMAP
Sent
10 IMAP
+
Tech.
11
IMAP
Templates
12
IMAP
Trash
13 IMAP
+
Work.
14
IMAP
contacts
15 IMAP
+
personal.
To view email messages select a folder and press the
space bar which will open the folder for message viewing.
To navigate the folders select a folder and press
enter which will open another folder list (if there are folders within
it or just show the emails..)
To move an email from one folder to another
saelect message and press `s'
you will be prompted for a mailbox name and path. Mutt will guess a maiulbox name based on the email.
Save to mailbox ('?' for list): =smulqueeny
Press the `?' key and
Undelete a deleted message
type the number of the message in eg 8 and press enter press the `u' key to undelete
q:Quit d:Del u:Undel s:Save m:Mail r:Reply g:Group ?:Help
1 D+ Oct 31 NetBankNotifica ( 0) First NetBank Open Payment
2 D+ Oct 31 Richard McDonal ( 0) web server
3 D+ Nov 01 James McDonald ( 2) Tambour Door
4 D+ Nov 02 Nover & Co, New ( 48) Re: Nover Enquiry Form
5 D Nov 02 Helen Skone ( 0) FW: Lane Cove Hole
6 D+ Nov 04 Elaine McDonald ( 0) FW: Auction
7 rD+ Nov 03 Richard McDonal ( 0) RE: https port dead ?
8 D+ Nov 07 Janelle Khawly ( 94)
9 D Nov 10 NetRegistry ( 311) NetRegistry November Newsletter
10 D+ Nov 10 Janelle Khawly ( 0)
11 D+ Nov 10 Janelle Khawly ( 0)
12 D+ Nov 10 Janelle Khawly ( 0)
13 D+ Nov 10 Janelle Khawly ( 0)
14 D+ Nov 11 NetBankNotifica ( 0) First NetBank Open Payment
15 + Nov 10 my-yahoo-regist ( 171) Yahoo!: Please Verify Your Email Address
16 T Nov 14 Simon Mulqueeny (2527) New address details
17 r T Nov 14 Janelle Khawly ( 0) DUNK ISLAND
18 r Nov 15 Simon Butler ( 0) Please Constact Simon @ Endeavour
19 + Nov 16 Janelle Khawly ( 0) RE: The Profit
20 r + Nov 16 Simon Butler ( 0) RE: Please Constact Simon @ Endeavour
21 r C Nov 16 [email protected] ( 0) weekend
22 F Nov 16 To emc@exemail. ( 0) Re: weekend
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