Neomutt cheatsheet

I switched from a homemade script using mblaze to neomutt (after being using mutt, alpine and mu4e) and it’s difficult to remember everything. So, let’s do a cheatsheet!

• Mark as read: Ctrl+R
• Mark to delete: d
• Execute deletion: $
• Tag a mail: t
• Move a mail: s (for save, which is a copy + delete)
• Save a mail: c (for copy)
• Operation on tagged mails: ;[OP] with OP being the key for that operation, like ;d for deleting tagged emails or ;s for moving them

Operations on attachments

• Save to file: s
• Pipe to view as html: | and then w3m -T text/html
• Pipe to view as picture: | and then feh -

Delete mails based on date

• use T to enter a date range, format [before]-[after] with before/after being a DD/MM/YYYY format (YYYY is optional)
• ~d 24/04- to mark mails after 24/04 of this year
• ~d -24/04 to mark mails before 24/04 of this year
• ~d 24/04-25/04 to mark mails between 24/04 and 25/04 (inclusive)
• ;d to tell neomutt we want to delete marked mails
• $ to make deletion happen

Simple config

Here is a simple config I’ve built to get Neomutt usable for me.

set realname = "Jane Doe"
set from = "jane@doe.com"
set smtp_url = "smtps://login@doe.com:465"
alias me Jane Doe <login@doe.com>
set folder = "imaps://login@doe.com:993"
set imap_user = "login"
set header_cache     = /home/solene/.cache/neomutt/jane/headers
set message_cachedir = /home/solene/.cache/neomutt/jane/bodies
set imap_pass = "xx"
set smtp_pass = "xx"

set imap_idle = yes       # IMAP push (supposed to work)
set mbox_type = Maildir
set ssl_starttls = yes
set ssl_force_tls = yes

set spoolfile = "+INBOX"
set record = "+Sent"
set postponed = "+Drafts"
set trash = "+Trash"
set imap_list_subscribed = yes
set imap_check_subscribed

#sidebar
set sidebar_visible
set sidebar_format = "%B%?F? [%F]?%* %?N?%N/?%S"
set mail_check_stats
bind index,pager \Cp sidebar-prev         # Ctrl-Shift-p - Previous Mailbox
bind index,pager \Cn sidebar-next         # Ctrl-Shift-n - Next Mailbox
bind index,pager \Ca sidebar-open         # Ctrl-Shift-a - Open Highlighted Mailbox
bind index "," imap-fetch-mail            # ,            - Get new emails
bind index,pager "N" next-unread-mailbox  # Jump to next unread email

# regroup by threads
set sort=threads

# display only interesting headers
ignore *
unignore from date subject to cc
unignore organization organisation x-mailer: x-newsreader: x-mailing-list:
unignore posted-to: