MuttGuide

This shall be a generic in-depth guide for newbies to learn easily the first steps to get things running up to the high end finetuning as seen in some configs of ConfigList & ConfigTricks.
It's meant to be an alive guide: we need YOU the newbie to build it, please help us help yourself!
Add here solutions that you know to aid others, add to UserGuide ideas how to change/ improve/ make a new one or things that you miss here.

The generic Guide

• Basics to get going:
  • /Introduction: How to use this guide.
  • MailConcept: the way of mail between computers and inside yours.
  • /Setup: compile-time, install, extra pkgs.
  • /Syntax: run-time config file.
  • /Folders: management, mbox, maildir, subfolders, shortcuts.

• Views, Menus /Actions: modes, save, reply, forward, change folder, macros.
  • /Index: display formats, colors, flags, errors.
  • /Message?: filter, charset, header weeding, colors.
  • /Attachment?: MIME for sending and reading, autoview.

• /Send: concept, compose, encoding.
  • /Headers?: change From-ID, envelopes, alternates.
  • /Aliases: address management, external database.
  • /Edit?: pre-, post-processing, body, header

• /Receive: concept, spoolfile, mailboxes, notifications.
  • /Filesystem (local, NFS, permission, locking, mutt_dotlock.
  • /UsePOP: getting + processing, filter: fetchmail, procmail
  • /UseIMAP: remote folders.

Advanced stuff

• /Charsets? (what and why things can go wrong)
• /Encryption (why, why not, security in stored files)
  • /UsePGP?
  • /UseGPG
  • /UseSMIME
• dynamic & complex configuration for special tasks
  • /Macros: save typing a lot same stuff
  • /Hooks: automatic actions.
  • /MailingLists?
  • /MultiAccounts: change profiles/ roles/ identities/ accounts/ From:-addresses.
  • /Scoring?
  • general ConfigTricks.
  • /Archiving
• /XFace inclusion and display
• /ShellScripting: using mutt to automate sending mail
• /Groups
• /Caching: Cache message headers (POP, IMAP, MH, Maildir) and bodies (POP, IMAP)

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