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What to do with a message/partial MIME type?
I used a copier/scanner to scan a document and email me the resulting image. It sent me several emails, each with a message/partial MIME attachment. mutt doesn't seem to understand these messages. ...
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Using mutt and not revealing IP address
Here is mutt setup: I use offlineimap to fetch the mail and use msmtp to send the mail.
My concern is that when using this (msmtp), it appends my IP address in the header in every email that is sent. ...
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local email storage syncing to imap - mutt-friendly
Summary
My problem: I want to read email offline with my choice of client (mutt), but I want actions like moving emails, etc. to be kept in two-way snc with an imap server.
My question: Is there a ...
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How to tell mutt not to wait for an attachment program to return?
I use this line for images in my mailcap:
image/*; eog %s &;
but mutt immediately deletes the temp file and eog can’t load it.
When I remove the & mutt waits for eog to be closed until it ...
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How to make an address list in mutt
I use Mutt as my main client and use the alias command quite frequently.
How to group mail addresses, or—even better—aliases into a list I can then use like an alias to send mail to?
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Using Trash with Mutt: Does it make sense?
I come from Thunderbird, which I found to be bloatware with spontaneous hiccoughs using 20–40% of processing power, weak IMAP and local mailfolder handling and a constant 100–500MB of RAM use.
But it ...
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Modify an incoming mail from text/plain to text/html
I'm using mutt to process my mail. There is one sender which declares the wrong content type. The mail arrives with
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary=--…
and has two parts. They are ...
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Email picture attachments as inline along with the email body
I'm right now working with a script for emailing attachment (.png pics). Since I'm using mutt command with -a option, the email is sent as a mail attachment.
I want these .png pictures to be mailed ...
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Mutt new e-mail notifications in tmux window
I am on tmux, with mutt in an inactive window. If IMAP flags change on a message through external means, I see the visual bell and the status bar changes, drawing my attention to the e-mail client. ...
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mutt: mark as read and delete
I discard some messages without reading them. After deleting said messages, however, I am soon alerted to the presence of unread mail in my trash can.
Is there a way to either:
disable the alert ...
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How to use whitespace in procmailrc recipe destination path?
I use Mutt Maildir for storage mails.
I created one mailbox like this Stack Exchange/. (whitespace between Stack and Exchange here)
procmailrc recipe:
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* From: .*Stack\ Exchange
Stack Exchange/
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What does it mean for an email message to be “old”?
I just recently converted my mbox over to Maildir, and when I opened up mutt, I saw an 'O' flag on some messages. Looking this up, I find that it means the message is marked as "Old". However as ...
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Opening .eml files with mutt
How should one open .eml files in linux ? I'm not sure if mutt can handle it ?
UPDATE
I worked it out partially , by creating a new mailbox:
mkdir -p a/{cur,tmp,new}
And place the eml file in ...
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How to view full bounce message in mutt?
I got an error when sending email with mutt , some "red" text shows at the bottom of terminal , how should I view the full error message ? Is there a shortcut / macro that I could use / define ?
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How to get nano to work properly under mutt?
I have set nano as the default editor in mutt; mutt launches nano normally enough, but when I try to send the message (ie. save and quit, separately) mutt says the message has been aborted. Any idea ...
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Sending HTML with Mutt (or another terminal mail client)
While I can find some scattered info on the topic, I can't seem to find a straight walkthrough (or even a definite answer)...
Basically I'm too low on the totem pole to start sending plain-text ...
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How can I fake sending -time when sending email with Mutt?
Suppose a student is two hours late in returning an assignment. Now the assignment needs to travel a long way in internet so there is a good excuse that it got lost in somewhere or got jammed (well ...
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Mutt silently failing when trying to send an e-mail from command line
I'm trying to send and e-mail from mutt from command line using following command:
mutt -F /my/path/to/muttrc -s "Hello" an@email.com < test.txt
But nothing happens. Mutt doesn't display any ...
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Email signature is distorted in Yahoo's new webmail client
I'm using vim+mutt to write e-mails which I send via IMAP through Google. When I include a signature file to be used, and that file contains an ASCII signature (figlet font), it is badly displayed by ...
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Open message with given message-id from command line in mutt
I have the value of the Message ID header of a particular message in my mutt's inbox and I want to open it with a one shot mutt command, read and close.
Currently, I open mutt, do a with ~i ...
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How do I configure mutt to display the date header in my local time zone in the pager?
When I view a message in the pager mutt displays the time in the Date header in UTC rather than my local time zone. The index view displays the local time correctly. I found this old mailing list post ...
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how to configure mutt as email client in linux for a remote microsoft exchange server?
I have a windows xp laptop that has ms-outlook 2007. i didnt have to do anything to set it up. i connected my laptop to office network and it picked up all settings by itself. Now i want to dump this ...
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Changing SMTP authentication in mutt based on From e-mail address
I use mutt as my e-mail reader, and nbSMTP as my SMTP client. I check e-mail from a half dozen accounts and sort them into miscellaneous folders in my maildir. Some of the folders are ...
