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neomutt(1) User Manuals neomutt(1) NAME neomutt - The NeoMutt Mail User Agent (MUA) SYNTAX neomutt [-Enx] [-e command] [-F config] [-H draft] [-i include] [-b address] [-c address] [-s subject] [-a file] ... [--] address ... neomutt [-nx] [-e command] [-F config] [-b address] [-c address] [-s subject] [-a file] ... [--] address ... < message neomutt [-nRy] [-e command] [-F config] [-f mailbox] [-m type] neomutt [-n] [-e command] [-F config] -A alias neomutt [-n] [-e command] [-F config] -B neomutt [-n] [-e command] [-F config] -D [-S] [-O] neomutt [-n] [-e command] [-F config] -d level -l file neomutt [-n] [-e command] [-F config] -G neomutt [-n] [-e command] [-F config] -g server neomutt [-n] [-e command] [-F config] -p neomutt [-n] [-e command] [-F config] -Q variable [-O] neomutt [-n] [-e command] [-F config] -Z neomutt [-n] [-e command] [-F config] -z [-f mailbox] neomutt -v[v] DESCRIPTION NeoMutt is a small but very powerful text based program for reading and sending electronic mail under Unix operating systems, including support for color terminals, MIME, OpenPGP, and a threaded sorting mode. Note: This manual page gives a brief overview of NeoMutt's command line op- tions. You should find a copy of the full manual in /usr/lo- cal/share/doc/neomutt, in plain text, HTML, and/or PDF format. OPTIONS -- Special argument forces NeoMutt to stop option parsing and treat re- maining arguments as addresses even if they start with a dash -A alias Print an expanded version of the given alias to stdout and exit -a file Attach one or more files to a message (must be the last option). Add any addresses after the '--' argument, e.g.: neomutt -a image.jpg -- address1 neomutt -a image.jpg *.png -- address1 address2 -b address Specify a blind carbon copy (Bcc) recipient -C Enable cryptographic operations in the cases in which they're dis- abled by default. Those include: * Batch mode. * Sending a postponed message. * Resending a message. -c address Specify a carbon copy (Cc) recipient -D Dump all configuration variables as 'name=value' pairs to stdout -D -D -DD Like -D, but only show the config that has changed -D -O Like -D, but show one-liner documentation -D -S Like -D, but hide the value of sensitive variables -d level Log debugging output to a file (default is "~/.neomuttdebug0"). The level can range from 1-5 and affects verbosity (a value of 2 is rec- ommended) Using this option along with -l is useful to log the early startup process (before reading any configuration and hence $debug_level and $debug_file) -E Edit draft (-H) or include (-i) file during message composition -e command Specify a command to be run after reading the config files -F config Specify an alternative initialization file to read, see FILES sec- tion below for a list of regular configuration files -f mailbox Specify a mailbox (as defined with mailboxes command) to load -G Start NeoMutt with a listing of subscribed newsgroups -g server Like -G, but start at specified news server -H draft Specify a draft file which contains header and body to use to send a message. If draft is "-", then data is read from stdin. The draft file is expected to contain just an RFC822 email -- headers and a body. Although it is not an mbox file, if an mbox "From " line is present, it will be silently discarded. Draft files are processed the same in interactive and batch mode; they are not passed through untouched. For example, encrypted draft files will be decrypted. -h Print this help message and exit -i include Specify an include file to be embedded in the body of a message -l file Specify a file for debugging output (default "~/.neomuttdebug0") This overrules $debug_file setting and NeoMutt keeps up to five de- bug logs ({ file | $debug_file | ~/.neomuttdebug }[0-4]) before override the oldest file -m type Specify a default mailbox format type for newly created folders The type is either MH, MMDF, Maildir or mbox (case-insensitive) -n Do not read the system-wide configuration file -p Resume a prior postponed message, if any -Q variable Query a configuration variable and print its value to stdout (after the config has been read and any commands executed). Add -O for one-liner documentation. -R Open mailbox in read-only mode -s subject Specify a subject (must be enclosed in quotes if it has spaces) -v Print the NeoMutt version and compile-time definitions and exit -vv Print the NeoMutt license and copyright information and exit -y Start NeoMutt with a listing of all defined mailboxes -Z Open the first mailbox with new message or exit immediately with exit code 1 if none is found in all defined mailboxes -z Open the first or specified (-f) mailbox if it holds any message or exit immediately with exit code 1 otherwise ENVIRONMENT EDITOR Specifies the editor to use if VISUAL is unset. Defaults to the Vi editor if unset. EGDSOCKET For OpenSSL since version 0.9.5, files, mentioned at RANDFILE below, can be Entropy Gathering Daemon (EGD) sockets. Also, and if exists, ~/.entropy and /tmp/entropy will be used to initialize SSL library functions. Specified sockets must be owned by the user and have permission of 600 (octal number representing). EMAIL The user's email address. HOME Full path of the user's home directory. MAIL Full path of the user's spool mailbox. MAILCAPS Path to search for mailcap files. If unset, a RFC1524 compliant search path that is extended with NeoMutt related paths (at position two and three): "$HOME/.mailcap:/usr/local/share/neomutt/mailcap :/usr/local/etc/mailcap:/etc/mailcap:/usr/etc/mailcap:/usr/local/ etc/mailcap" will be used instead. MAILDIR Full path of the user's spool mailbox if MAIL is unset. Commonly used when the spool mailbox is a maildir(5) folder. MM_NOASK If this variable is set, mailcap are always used without prompting first. NNTPSERVER Similar to configuration variable $news_server, specifies the domain name or address of the default NNTP server to connect. If unset, /usr/local/etc/nntpserver is used but can be overridden by command line option -g. RANDFILE Like configuration variable $entropy_file, defines a path to a file which includes random data that is used to initialize SSL library functions. If unset, ~/.rnd is used. DO NOT store important data in the specified file. REPLYTO When set, specifies the default Reply-To address. TEXTDOMAINDIR Defines an absolute path corresponding to /usr/local/share/locale that will be recognised by GNU gettext(1) and used for Native Lan- guage Support (NLS) if enabled. TMPDIR Directory in which temporary files are created. Defaults to /tmp if unset. Configuration variable $tmp_dir takes precedence over this one. VISUAL Specifies the editor to use when composing messages. XDG_CONFIG_DIRS Specifies a X Desktop Group (XDG) compliant location for the system- wide configuration file, as described in FILES section below. This variable defaults to /etc/xdg. Bypass loading with command line op- tion -n. XDG_CONFIG_HOME Specifies a XDG compliant location for the user-specific configura- tion file, as described in FILES section below. This variable de- faults to $HOME/.config. Can be overridden by command line option -F. FILES Configuration files NeoMutt will read just the first found configuration file of system-wide and user-specific category, from the list below and in that order. But it allows building of a recursive configuration by using the source command. +-----+---------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | #N | system-wide | user-specific | +-----+---------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | 1 | $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/neomutt/ | $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/neomutt/ | | | neomuttrc | neomuttrc | +-----+---------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | 2 | $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/neomutt/Muttrc | $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/neomutt/muttrc | | | *) | | +-----+---------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | 3 | /usr/local/etc/neomuttrc | $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mutt/neomuttrc | +-----+---------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | 4 | /usr/local/etc/Muttrc *) | $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mutt/muttrc | +-----+---------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | 5 | /usr/local/share/neomutt/ | ~/.neomutt/neomuttrc | | | neomuttrc | | +-----+---------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | 6 | /usr/local/share/neomutt/Muttrc | ~/.neomutt/muttrc | | | *) | | +-----+---------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | 7 | -- | ~/.mutt/neomuttrc | +-----+---------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | 8 | -- | ~/.mutt/muttrc | +-----+---------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | 9 | -- | ~/.neomuttrc | +-----+---------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | 10 | -- | ~/.muttrc | +-----+---------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | *) Note the case of the filename | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Other relevant files Unless otherwise stated, NeoMutt will process all grouped files in the or- der (from top to bottom) as they are specified in that listing. ~/.mailcap /usr/local/etc/mailcap User-specific and system-wide definitions for handling non-text MIME types, look at environment variable MAILCAPS above for additional search locations. ~/.neomuttdebug0 User's default debug log file. For further details or customising file path see command line options -d and -l above. /etc/mime.types /usr/local/etc/mime.types /usr/local/share/neomutt/mime.types ~/.mime.types Description files for simple plain text mapping between MIME types and filename extensions. NeoMutt parses these files in the stated order while processing attachments to determine their MIME type. /usr/local/share/doc/neomutt/manual.{html,pdf,txt} The full NeoMutt manual in HTML, PDF or plain text format. /tmp/neomutt-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX Temporary files created by NeoMutt. For custom locations look at description of the environment variable TMPDIR above. Notice that the suffix -XXXX-XXXX-XXXX is just a placeholder for, e.g. hostname, user name/ID, process ID and/or other random data. BUGS See issue tracker at <https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues>. NO WARRANTIES This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FIT- NESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. SEE ALSO gettext(1), msmtp(1), notmuch(1), sendmail(1), smail(1), RAND_egd(3), curses(3), ncurses(3), mailcap(5), maildir(5), mbox(5), neomuttrc(5). For further NeoMutt information: * the full manual, see FILES section above * the home page, <https://neomutt.org> AUTHOR Richard Russon and friends. Use <neomutt-devel@neomutt.org> to contact the developers. Unix 2026-06-16 neomutt(1)
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