I've a postfix server to deliver local emails using Maildir format. Inside home users I've
cat /home/$USER/.muttrc
set from="[email protected]"
set realname="user1"
set mbox_type=Maildir
set folder="~/Maildir"
set mask="!^\\.[^.]"
set mbox="~/Maildir"
set record="+.Sent"
set postponed="+.Drafts"
set spoolfile="~/Maildir"
set timeout=30
does mutt support notification via shell of new email? Like: "You have X new mails". Because does not run.
A year ago I tried a couple of different email senders because I wanted to simplify sending emails from the command line. There are a couple of tools for it, I tried (I don't remember exactly):
sendmailmail xmailssmtpuuencodemail, that handle attachments.echo body text | mutt -s subject -a /etc/resolv.conf [other files] -- [email protected]The issue of attaching a file was difficult, due to
but eventually it worked with mutt (with the command above). I would have preferred a method without the invocation of a big program, but I was fine with it.
At some point I stopped using it, because I always had to enter the email addresses by hand and I never remember them.
In order further facilitate command line sending,
is there an easy way to enable tab-completion for email addresses?
I guess there is some manual work involved, because I didn't find anything on the web. Building an email index (exported cvs from gmail) seems easy, but what if John Jerry uses [email protected] as his email address? It would be necessary to complete
<tab><tab> <tab> and <tab>. This must be somehow fed into the readline utility - I don't know if that's difficult, but I'm looking for an easy way, if there is one!
I have an automysqlbackup.sh script that backs up and sends the database via cron. The script uses mutt to send the compressed file as attachment. I am on a shared hosting server.
It looks like mutt creates a temporary file named 'sent' in my home directory with all the headers and encoded attachment, and then fails to delete it. This file keeps growing with each attachment sent. I can't find any reference to this file in mutt's manual, according to the man page, mutt temporary files look like muttXXXXX.
Other than deleting the file manually, what are my options?
When I start Mutt, the default mailbox is whatever is in the $MAIL environment variable.
How can I startup Mutt, pointing to a different mailbox rather than $MAIL, or better still, how can I change the current mailbox from within Mutt?
I have a clue as to using a .muttrc file. Is there an example of a .muttrc which can open multiple inboxes?
My cron jobs are trying to mail their results using the local mail feature of Ubuntu (not internet email, the kind of mail you can read with mutt). However, /var/log/syslog reports
/USR/SBIN/CRON[19212]: (speedtax) MAIL (mailed 52 bytes of output but got status 0x0006 )
I would like to setup local mail (so that cron can deliver the output successfully) but do not want to setup internet email. Everything I find on google is about the latter.