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| Newer page: | version 13 | Last edited on Friday, September 5, 2003 10:48:00 am | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 11 | Last edited on Friday, August 29, 2003 1:44:16 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
@@ -32,12 +32,24 @@
mutt -a $FILENAME -s $SUBJECT $TO < /dev/null
cat'ing a file into mutt doesn't seem to work the same way.
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+Mutt (and most other command-line mail programs) take std input to be the body of the message. That won't work if you expect it to add all the nice [MIME] headers and stuff for attachments.
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+!Forcing headers
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+When you're root and you are just using mutt to remail things (see above) you might want a more descriptive from line than "root": add
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+ my_hdr From: test@example.org
+ set realname="Real Name"
+
+to ~/.muttrc
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!Using maildir
If you use Maildir format mailboxes (for example, Courier IMAP) and you want to read them locally with Mutt:
export MAIL=~/Maildir/
and insert the following line into .muttrc:
set folder=~/Maildir/
