About me: My name is Solène Rapenne, pronouns she/her. I like learning and sharing knowledge. Hobbies: '(BSD OpenBSD Lisp cmdline gaming internet-stuff). I love percent and lambda characters. OpenBSD developer solene@.

Contact me: solene on libera.chat, solene+www at dataswamp dot org or @solene@bsd.network (mastodon). If for some reason you want to support my work, this is my paypal address: donate@perso.pw.

My mutt cheat sheet

Written by Solène, on 03 May 2016.
Tags: #cheatsheet #mutt #email

Comments on Fediverse/Mastodon

I am learning mutt and I am lost. If you are like me, you may like the following cheat sheet!

I am using it through imap, it may be different with local mailbox.

Case is important !

  • Change folder : Y
  • Filter the display : l (for limit) and then a filter like this
  • d <2w : d for date and <2w for “less than 2 weeks” no space in <2w !
  • b “hello mate” : b is for body and the string is something to find in the body
  • f somebody@zxy.abc : f for from and you can make an expression
  • s “Urgent” : s stands for subject and use a pattern
  • Delete messages with filter : D with a filter, if you used limit before it will propose by default the filter of limit
  • Delete a message : d (it will be marked as Deleted)

Deleted messages will be removed when you change the folder or if you exit. Pressing $ can do it manually.