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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 elec-
       tronic 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	mail-
	      boxes  command  which contains new mail, or exit immediately if
	      none.

ENVIRONMENT
       EDITOR Specifies the editor to use if VISUAL is unset.

       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 Specifies the editor to use when composing messages.

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 handling 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-1.4.1/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   to	 contact  the
       developers.



Unix				  June 2001			      mutt(1)

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