Mutt cheat sheet

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Janos Gyerik edited this page May 2, 2013 · 1 revision

Quick tips

Mark all messages read
- Step 1: tag all messages matching regex: T.
- Step 2: clear new flag on tagged messages: ;WN

Automatically move read mails out of Inbox

Note: you want to move read mails out of Inbox for very practical reasons
- To not get the message about new email every time you start a new shell.
- If your Inbox grows big, you will experience a delay when logging in to the server. With a huge Inbox, the delay can be extremely long.
By default, all mails are appended to ~/Mail/root
To automatically move read mails to ~/Mail/read_inbox when exiting mutt, at this to .muttrc

 set move=yes
 set mbox=+read_inbox

This works even when new emails are not in a flat file but in a folder like ~/Maildir/new