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<h1>The Mutt Mail User Agent</h1>
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<p>
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Mutt is a UNIX mail user agent (aka mail client) that is available to
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all SDF users.
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This is a brief tutorial on reading and sending mail with mutt. It does
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not cover some useful features, such as folders.
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On SDF, it is already configured for sending and receiving mail with
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your SDF account.
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To launch mutt, type mutt at the command line.
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</p>
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<h2>Reading mail</h2>
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When you launch mutt without any options, you will see a list of
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messages in your inbox.
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You can select a message by moving between them using 'j' and 'k', as
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in vi, or the arrow keys, or jumping to a message by entering its index
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number, as seen in the leftmost column, and pressing the return key.
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To read a message, select it and press the return key. Press the space
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bar to see the next page of the message or '-' to see the previous page.
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To return to the previous screen, press 'i'.
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You can perform a number of actions on the selected message, or the
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message you are currently reading. To reply to the message, press 'r'.
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(See the section below on sending mail.) To delete the message, press
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'd'. The message will be marked for deletion, and mutt will ask if you
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want to purge deleted messages when you leave the folder it is in. If
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the message has attachments, you can view a list of them by pressing
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'v', and save them by pressing 's'.
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<h2>Sending mail</h2>
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To send a message, you may press 'm' from within mutt to begin a new
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message or 'r' to reply to the selected message or the message you are
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reading. You will then be prompted for a recipient, followed by a
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subject. Mutt will then launch your $EDITOR, where you can write your
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message. When you are done, write the message out to the file (mutt will
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have provided a temporary filename) and quit your editor. Mutt will then
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take you to the Compose screen, where you can change the subject,
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recipients, etc. if desired. If you want to re-edit part of your
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message, select it, and press 'e'. You can add an attachment by pressing
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'a'. When you are ready to send your message, press 'y'. You will be
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returned to the previous screen and will see a notification "Mail sent."
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<h2>Getting help</h2>
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At the top of your terminal, mutt will show you a selection of common
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keybindings that you can use at the moment, with brief descriptions. To
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see a longer list of keybindings, with less brief descriptions, press
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'?'. To read the mutt manual, press the F1 key from within mutt, or view
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the file /usr/pkg/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt. You can also consult the
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mutt man page for information on command line options, environment
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variables, etc.
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</p>
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$Id: mutt.html,v 1.3 2017/03/20 21:19:45 jandal Exp $
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