Linux.com: Training your Mutt | Linux Today

Linux.com: Training your Mutt

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 13, 2006

“Mutt is a great mail client, in large part because it is
extremely customizable. You can tweak Mutt’s behavior and have it
do tricks that are nearly impossible to do with other mail
clients–but it can be a bit daunting to get started with. Let’s
take Mutt on a short trip to mail client obedience school and see
how easy it can be to make Mutt handle mail just the way you want
it to.

“To do that, we’ll take a look configuring your Mutt
configuration file. Mutt reads the system-wide configuration under
/etc/Muttrc and looks for a file called .muttrc under your home
directory for its configuration. We’ll focus on modifying the
.muttrc configuration here…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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