I need to be able to send mail from a bash script with the following: To Address, From Address, Subject, Body Text, and File Attachment I can send everything just perfectly using mutt EXCEPT, no matter what I do the "From" address does not get set correctly: e.g. mutt -e "my_hdr From:${FROM}")... I can also use sendmail or mailx but I can't seem to get the file attachment and the body text correct. e.g. sendmail -t -a file

How do hooks work? Is it possible to use them to change the saved copy of the letter on the mail server (for example, to delete attachments)? For example, to use account-hook and replace the sent letter with a copy? I am using mutt from terminal.

set ssl_starttls=yes set ssl_force_tls=yes set imap_user = 'name@gmail.com' set imap_pass = 'password' set from='name@gmail.com' set realname='name@gmail.com' set folder = imaps://imap.gmail.com/ set spoolfile = imaps://imap.gmail.com/INBOX set postponed="imaps://imap.gmail.com/[Gmail]/Drafts" set header_cache = "~/.mutt/cache/headers" set message_cachedir = "~/.mutt/cache/bodies" set certificate_file = "~/.mutt/certificates" set smtp_url = 'smtp://name@gmail.com:password@smtp.gmail.com:465/' set move = no set imap_keepalive = 900 set smtp_pass="secrets" When sending a mail got that error. Firewall also off on server and port 465 open on Security group. Is it required to install postfix with mutt? Connection to smtp.gmail.com closed SMTP session failed: read error Could not send the message. I can read the mails on my inbox but can't send emails. This is on my maillog,

Mar  1 10:20:01 appsvr2 postfix/qmgr: 9703F3F7974: from=, size=768, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Mar  1 10:20:01 appsvr2 postfix/local: 9427E3F796E: to=, orig_to=, relay=local, delay=0.04, delays=0.03/0.01/0/0, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)
Mar  1 10:20:01 appsvr2 postfix/qmgr: 9427E3F796E: removed
Mar  1 10:20:01 appsvr2 postfix/local: 9703F3F7974: to=, orig_to=, relay=local, delay=0.04, delays=0.03/0.01/0/0, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)
Mar  1 10:20:01 appsvr2 postfix/qmgr: 9703F3F7974: removed
Mar  1 10:30:01 appsvr2 postfix/pickup: A43FB3E643: uid=0 from=
Mar  1 10:30:01 appsvr2 postfix/cleanup: A43FB3E643: message-id=
Mar  1 10:30:01 appsvr2 postfix/qmgr: A43FB3E643: from=, size=827, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Mar  1 10:30:01 appsvr2 postfix/local: A43FB3E643: to=, orig_to=, relay=local, delay=0.04, delays=0.03/0.01/0/0, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)
Mar  1 10:30:01 appsvr2 postfix/qmgr: A43FB3E643: removed

I send emails from the terminal with mutt -s "This is Subject" -a a.txt -- yipsokikko@gufum.com < test.txt. The a.txt attachments can be large, how can I avoid filling up the mail server? I would like the attachments to not be saved on the server or to be deleted immediately after sending. Maybe there is a way to send one copy of the email (with attachments) and save the other (without attachments). Or you can delete the email after sending (you need to make sure that the email was sent) and then save a copy of the email in the sent folder, but without sending it to the recipient again. It is not necessary to do this with mutt, maybe there is something more suitable. My .muttrc file is: # ======================= IMAP ========================= set imap_user = myaccount@company.com set imap_pass = mypassword set spoolfile = imaps://mail.company.com/INBOX set folder = imaps://mail.company.com/ set record = "=SENDED" set postponed = "=DRAFTS" set mbox = "=INBOX" #set header_cache = "~/.mutt/cache/headers" #set message_cachedir = "~/.mutt/cache/bodies" set certificate_file = "~/.mutt/certificates" # ======================= SMTP ========================= set smtp_url = "smtp://myaccount@company.com@mail.company.com:123/" set smtp_pass = $imap_pass set ssl_force_tls = yes # ======================= Composition ================== set editor = "nano" set edit_headers = yes set charset = UTF8 unset use_domain set realname = "My Name" set from = "myaccount@mail.company.com" set use_from = yes

I was using mutt for few months until it started giving an error: "Login failed". When I do mutt -d 5 [2022-06-08 14:27:17] SASL local ip: 2401:4900:170d:264a:c146:ad26:5e83:fe0e;45008, remote ip:2404:6800:4003:c11::6d;993 [2022-06-08 14:27:17] External SSF: 256 [2022-06-08 14:27:17] mutt_sasl_cb_authname: getting authname for imap.gmail.com:993 [2022-06-08 14:27:17] mutt_sasl_cb_authname: getting user for imap.gmail.com:993 [2022-06-08 14:27:17] mutt_sasl_cb_pass: getting password for garv.lodha@gmail.com@imap.gmail.com:993 [2022-06-08 14:27:17] Authenticating (PLAIN)... [2022-06-08 14:27:17] 4> a0001 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN Z2Fydi5sb2RoYUBnbWFpbC5jb20AZ2Fydi5sb2RoYUBnbWFpbC5jb20AYmhAZ3ZAZGdpdEAxJiU= [2022-06-08 14:27:18] 4 a0002 LOGIN "garv.lodha@gmail.com" "password" [2022-06-08 14:27:18] 4 a0003 LOGOUT [2022-06-08 14:27:43] 4< * BYE Logout Requested s1mb93885201jar [2022-06-08 14:27:43] Handling BYE Any help is appreciated.

Newly working with neomutt and mbsync. I did an initial grab of all my mail and folders which was fine. Then I started organizing my folders and mail. Some of the folders (or "mailboxes") within the account were cleaned up and DELETED. When I run mbsync -a it seems to want to find those deleted folders. The error message is as follows:

Error: channel example@gmail.com: far side box INBOX/subscribed cannot be opened.

The INBOX/subscribed is a folder that no longer exists under INBOX Yet, the mbsync task is still trying to fetch it. **Is there a config file somewhere that needs updating? What can I do to fix this error?** Thank you for your help.

We were in a network that did not have a proxy traffic through a jumphost and used mutt to send notifications when scripts finish running. Now the server has been moved to a network with a jumphost and all HTTP/HTTPS traffic is routed through the jumphost. What settings do I need to change in muttrc to send properly? Environment variables for http_proxy and https_proxy have already been configured in .bash_profile.

Cannot open an .mbox file with mutt I want to open a 10GB .mbox file that I downloaded from my gmail account. When I use the command

neomutt -f 10GB_mboxfile.mbox

neomutt takes 10-20 seconds to open and when finally opened, there is no file listed in the the application. I have the following dummy .mbox (which I modified from a gmail mbox file):

From 9999999999999999@xxx Tue Mar 09 17:00:00 +0500 2019  
X-GM-THRID: 99999999999999999
X-mail-Labels: Archived,Sent,Opened
MIME-Version: 1.0
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2019 17:00:00 +0500
Message-ID: 
Subject: THETITLE
From: My Name 
To: destination@mail.com
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000009999999999999"

--0000000000009999999999999
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ da=
s ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

--0000000000009999999999999
Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ=
ZZ das ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ=
>

--0000000000009999999999999--

I am trying to open it with neomutt as follows:

neomutt -f themboxfile.mbox

neomutt opens but then no message is listed in the app. How is it possible to open this file with neomutt? (Although opening the same file works with mutt...) **EDIT** Beside the answer below I had a too old version: the apt get install neomutt on Ubuntu LTS 22.04 installed the version 20211029. I uninstalled neomutt and re-installed it with nix package manager. it installed NeoMutt 20231221 which worked without problem.

May I just delete a file/ mail in the mbsync folder? Or should I * configure (mbsync --config …, mu init --maildir=…), or * index the database (mu index) after removing a file? Put differently, what is the correct way of removing specific emails when working with mbsync? – Thanks!

I'm using [neomutt](https://neomutt.org) (an updated fork of [mutt](http://www.mutt.org)) as my CLI MUA (read: mail reading software in the terminal) and have all my messages synced offline using [isync/mbsync](https://isync.sourceforge.io/) and stored in the maildir-format on my Debian Stable system. Sometimes I want to reply to a message and attach another email (e.g. as a reference). This can be easily done when using the maildir-storage format since all messages are separate files; I just need to attach the file in my local folder. The problem is that I have difficulties finding the email files. Obviously I can search through all of my messages (e.g. by using [mu](https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/) , which is my mail indexer) and then attach it, but this is tedious. It would be a lot easier to just display the path and filename somewhere when I read an email, optimally in my pager within neomutt. But despite looking for a solution, I wasn't able to find that. Any ideas or workarounds?

I've currently got Neo/Mutt configured alongside iSync for a few different accounts. Everything syncs up and I've got the Mutt client configured roughly how I want it. However, I run into issues when using `` to move a message to an Archive folder. It's different depending on the type of account: * In my two Gmail accounts, if I read a message and then ` to my local "All Mail" folder, the message is moved as expected. Then, when I run mbsync`, my All Mail folder in Mutt shows two copies of the same message, with one marked for deletion. They are also both marked as unread, even though I had read the message before moving it. My workaround has been to just delete messages from my inbox. On the following sync, the deleted messages appear in All Mail without duplicates (but still annoyingly marked as unread). * In my ProtonMail account, I can read and then save a message to my Archive folder. On the next sync, I have a duplicate message in the Archive folder, one marked as unread and the other as read, and neither is marked for deletion. Unlike in the Gmail accounts, deleting a message from my inbox does not result in the message showing up in my Archive, so that half-measure doesn't work here. So maybe it's two separate issues but they certainly seem related. I've read multiple blog posts and scoured many dotfiles. I've seen "solutions" to the duplicate message problem such as folder hooks which delete duplicates when you enter the folder. These are not real solutions, IMO. So I'm wondering if it's possible to tell Mutt to save a message to a *remote* folder, and if this would give better results. At the same time, I haven't configured Mutt for IMAP and would prefer that Mutt does no IMAP syncing, leaving that job to mbsync. I still want to use Mutt mainly to read mail that is stored locally, but I also want to teach it to move messages to remote IMAP folders. Is this possible? Or is there a more obvious approach that I'm overlooking? In the meantime, I'm just manually marking archived messages as read, and deleting duplicates. If I could solve this problem, Mutt will be my favorite email reader by far.

I'm trying to setup mbsync and mutt to work with imap mail (normal imap provided by web hosting company). In my muttrc for this account I have: set trash = "+Trash" But when I try to delete message in mutt I get this notification: Create /home/{user}/.mail/{email-folder}/trash? ([yes]/no) mbsync has synced Trash folder from server. I have even setup mbox_type to Maildir. Why is this happening and how can I force mutt to use Trash folder?

I'm syncing my Gmail mailboxes locally with mbsync. Currently, the Gmail and local mailboxes reflect eachother 1:1, however I'd rather not store deleted mail locally. After I have marked messages for deletion locally, how can I empty my local Trash mailbox and propagate those deletions to Gmail when I run my next sync?

Does mbsync allow email downloads to be restricted to a certain time frame? I am using mbsync with mutt and would only like to keep local copies of emails from within the last year. Thanks!

I receive mails from mailing lists that change the From: address to the list address to get better reputation – they also move the original From: address to the Reply-To: header. I normally use a save-hook based upon the origin of the mail: save-hook "~f '^local\.part@domain\.part$'" '=nickname' which does not work in this case. I'm looking for a solution to first check if there is a Reply-To: header, and if so, if it matches the address, else check the From: header. (For recipients, there is the nice ~C, but there doesn't seem to be a modifier that matches on From: and/or Reply-To: – and even if so, I'd prefer Reply-To: over From: in this case.)

Since I changed from mbox to Maildir format, mutt/neomutt does not save sent email in ~/.muttrc I have

et mbox_type=Maildir
set folder="~/Maildir"    
set mask="!^\\.[^.]"
set mbox="~/Maildir"      
set spoolfile="~/Maildir"     
set postponed="+.Drafts"  # this I added after but nothing changed
set record="+.Sent"       # this I added after but nothing changed

the ~/Maildir tree

$ ls -R Maildir/
Maildir/:
cur  Draft  draftbox  new  outbox  Sent  sentbox  tmp  trash

Maildir/cur:
1737497891.V10307I5fbe8M146242.myhostname      1738400102.V10306Ic54e2M329900.myhostname:2,S
1737572852.V10307I5fbcaM212202.myhostname:2,S  1738779407.V10306Ic0d38M429367.myhostname:2,S
1737654476.V10307I5fb93M26824.myhostname       1739001859.V10306Ic55a1M270393.myhostname:2,S
1737718132.V10307I5fa87M173575.myhostname:2,S  1739210926.V10306Ic580cM502391.myhostname:2,S

Maildir/Draft:

Maildir/new:
1738155609.V10307Ic36a2M239995.myhostname  1738915125.V10306Ic2a87M548369.myhostname
1738264124.V10306Ic6fd5M305286.myhostname  1739089986.V10306Ic14bbM498891.myhostname
1738278926.V10306Ic0ccdM774234.myhostname  1739296548.V10306Ice92dM403450.myhostname
1738475978.V10306Ic1cefM416932.myhostname  1739360330.V10306Ic0e16M153268.myhostname
1738610292.V10306Ic1d23M237920.myhostname  1739465208.V10306Ic1905M306194.myhostname
1738697646.V10306Ic56abM101647.myhostname  1739466647.V10306Ica30cM369123.myhostname
1738864130.V10306Ic557eM199187.myhostname

Maildir/Sent:

Maildir/tmp:

If inside mutt/neomutt I try to open one of that *.myhostname file, mutt/neomutt says "~/Maildir/new/1739466647.V10306Ica30cM369123.myhostname is not a mailbox" Anyone has some advice ?

I can set up local-only mail accounts using sendmail or postfix, and messages will be stored in /var/mail/USERNAME and readable in a terminal window using mutt. I tried setting up a couple of MUA GUIs to read from this mailbox, but they all expect SMTP or IMAP details. (Tried Evolution, Geary and Thunderbird.) Is there any way to access a local mailbox with a GUI, without having to configure a local SMTP or IMAP server? I don't mind using a dedicated GUI.

i am running what seems to be Mutt 1.9.4 (2018-02-28). And the problem is that I cannot obtain full header information for incoming emails. the h just provides an additional Mime-Version: 1.0 and messageID (if it includes cc participants). I have tried to play around with the muttrc configurations, but none of the obvious things works. any ideas?

1. I want to use mutt for protonmail i saw that protonbridge-mail does not work for me, and that hydroxide provides an alternative solution. 2. I installed hydroxide with the settings outlined here https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/689590/configure-mutt-and-hydroxide-for-protonmail and it works. so, to be specific. I use > set ssl_starttls=no > set ssl_force_tls=no 3. i would like to understand exactly what is happening when I do > hydroxide auth myID@protonmail.com and then I am forced to enter my protonmail password. 4. Is the connection safe? is the password send out via encrypted means? 5. When I log into with correct password, Protonmail immediately sends me a warning message: > New Login to myID@protonmail.com on Unknown. If this wasn't you, please change your password immediately. (a) Protonmail does not recognize what device is logged in? why it is Unknown? (b) Also, after correctly supplying my protonmail password in

process,

then spits out another password, which it calls

Password

. How is this Bridge Password generated? and how has

used my original Protonmail Password? Has that travelled over the net? If this is actually secure, how do I automate the login process, without storing my protonmail password on my machine?

New noob here. Using MX Linux, set up Mutt with gmail. Was initially successful. Emails and all. Then at some point when trying to use again, it stuck at 4% giving a segmentation fault. Using gdb it says: Fetching message headers... 6202/132349 (4%) Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007ffff7c2ea5f in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtokyocabinet.so.9 (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff7c2ea5f in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtokyocabinet.so.9 #1 0x00007ffff7c2fca8 in tcbdbput () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtokyocabinet.so.9 #2 0x000055555561e5da in ?? () #3 0x000055555561eded in ?? () #4 0x000055555562dfe3 in ?? () #5 0x000055555562bb1c in ?? () #6 0x000055555562893d in ?? () #7 0x00005555555b774e in ?? () #8 0x000055555556c3ea in ?? () #9 0x00007ffff795cd7a in __libc_start_main () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 #10 0x000055555556d44a in ?? () What do I do?