MuttWiki

This is the primary starting point for the "Mutt"Wiki. Mutt is a MailUserAgent, see MailConcept for what that is and is not. Feel free to add information to these pages, become an efficient WikiWorker!

Stable 1.4.2.3 2007-05-26 Devel 1.5.17 2007-11-01

Documentation outside of this wiki: The Mutt home page is http://www.mutt.org/

• Download instructions and Mercurial (hg) access: http://www.mutt.org/download.html
• By default pressing F1 loads the manual in mutt (unless your window manager eats F1).
  • Otherwise find your locally installed copy by executing this cmd: "man mutt | grep manual.txt"
  • If you can't find them locally (often at /usr/*/doc/mutt/manual.txt(.gz)), then use the manuals at http://www.mutt.org/#doc

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Some starting points: (best used with most recent version, see above)

• MuttGuide for newbies, to learn everything from the basics to the advanced stuff. Or maybe a UserStory for special cases instead.
• MuttFaq lists frequently asked questions for specific issues when you know the basics. Use DebugConfig strategies for unknown problems.
  • MacroSamples and generic ConfigTricks of popular solutions to simplify recurring, mass, complex or tricky tasks.
• MuttTools to expand MUA functionality.
• [Index of all MuttWiki pages]

Mutt and its users: MuttMaps of mutters around the world.

• ConfigList of people's configuration files for Mutt (muttrc).
• UserPages link you to more special, detailed, extra info, useful tools.
• Visit official IRC MuttChannel or join the MuttLists. Use their "Paste" pages to work on examples.
• MuttAdvocacy why mutt sucks less. Enjoy MuttQuotes found in MuttChannel and MuttLists.

Development issues: MuttPeople who are busy with different aspects of making mutt useful.

• [UPDATING]: a list of user-visible changes in the development series.
• [ChangeLog]: a list of source code changes
• The bug tracking system is at http://bugs.mutt.org/ , including the wishlist for new features.
• Try nightly snapshots at http://dev.mutt.org/ for fixes.
• PatchList of third party patches for Mutt.
• SubmittingPatches tells you what to do when you want to submit your own patch.
• RelevantStandards used/ supported for interoperability and independence.
• ManualTOC: what the packaged manual.txt should be like.
• ManualVarNames: roadmap for things to be done for new naming scheme.

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