Mutt Reference

Commands

General Commands:

q      (x)      exit the current menu (abort without saving)
^g              cancel current action
?               list all keybindings for the current menu

The Message Index (browsing through mailbox):

m               compose a new message
d      (D)      delete the current message (matching a pattern)
u      (U)      undelete-message (matching a pattern)
C      (ALT C)  copy the current message to another mailbox (decode first)
s      (ALT s)  save-message (decode first)
r      (g)  (L) reply to sender (all recipients) (reply to mailing list)
f      (b)      forward message (bounce)
/      (ALT /)  search  (search-reverse)
c               change to a different mailbox/folder
F      (N)      mark as important (new)
l               show messages matching a pattern
o      (O)      change the current sort method (reverse sort)
t      (ALT t)  toggle the tag on a message (entire message thread)
T      (^t)     tag messages matching a pattern (untag)
v               view-attachments
<Return>        display-message
<Tab>           jump to the next new message
@               show the author's full e-mail address
$               save changes to mailbox
^l              clear and redraw the screen
ALT k           mail a PGP public key to someone

The Pager (reading an email):

<Return>        go down one line
<Space>  (-)    display the next page/message (previous)
^        ($)    jump to the top (bottom) of the message
/   (ALT /) (n) search for a regular expression (search backwards) (next match)
\               toggle search pattern coloring
S        (T)    skip beyond quoted text (toggle display of quoted text)

Composer (setting the send options for an email):

y    (P)   (w)  send the message  (postpone)  (write to folder)
i               check spelling, if available
a    (A)   (D)  attach a file  (attach message)  (detach)
d               edit description on attachment
t      (ALT f)  edit the To field (From field)
c      (b)      edit the Cc field (Bcc field)
s               edit the Subject
r               edit the Reply-To field
p               select PGP options
ALT k           attach a PGP public key
^f              wipe PGP passphrase from memory
f               specify an 'Fcc' mailbox i.e. sent folder

^g means CTRL and the g key. ALT f means ALT and the f key together. If you do not have an ALT key then use ESC then key. Do not type the brackets.ESCGet the latest copy from http://files.zeth.net/mutt.txt

Patterns

Multiple patterns can be specified on a line and the matched sets are logically ANDed together. e.g. "~F ~s test" would match important (~F) messages with "test" in the subject (~s test).

~A         all messages
~b         EXPR messages which contain EXPR in the message body
=b         STRING   messages which contain STRING in the message body. If IMAP is enabled, searches for STRING on the server, rather than downloading each message and searching it locally.
~B         EXPR messages which contain EXPR in the whole message
~c         EXPR messages carbon-copied to EXPR
%c         GROUP    messages carbon-copied to any member of GROUP
~C         EXPR messages either to: or cc: EXPR
%C         GROUP    messages either to: or cc: to any member of GROUP
~d         [MIN]-[MAX]  messages with “date-sent” in a Date range
~D         deleted messages
~e         EXPR messages which contains EXPR in the “Sender” field
%e         GROUP    messages which contain a member of GROUP in the “Sender” field
~E         expired messages
~F         flagged messages
~f         EXPR messages originating from EXPR
%f         GROUP    messages originating from any member of GROUP
~g         cryptographically signed messages
~G         cryptographically encrypted messages
~h         EXPR messages which contain EXPR in the message header
~H         EXPR messages with a spam attribute matching EXPR
~i         EXPR messages which match EXPR in the “Message-ID” field
~k         messages which contain PGP key material
~L         EXPR messages either originated or received by EXPR
%L         GROUP    message either originated or received by any member of GROUP
~l         messages addressed to a known mailing list
~m         [MIN]-[MAX]  messages in the range MIN to MAX
~n         [MIN]-[MAX]  messages with a score in the range MIN to MAX
~N         new messages
~O         old messages
~p         messages addressed to you (consults alternates)
~P         messages from you (consults alternates)
~Q         messages which have been replied to
~r         [MIN]-[MAX]  messages with “date-received” in a Date range
~R         read messages
~s         EXPR messages having EXPR in the “Subject” field.
~S         superseded messages
~t         EXPR messages addressed to EXPR
~T         tagged messages
~u         messages addressed to a subscribed mailing list
~U         unread messages
~v         messages part of a collapsed thread.
~V         cryptographically verified messages
~x         EXPR messages which contain EXPR in the “References” or “In-Reply-To” field
~X         [MIN]-[MAX]  messages with MIN to MAX attachments
~y         EXPR messages which contain EXPR in the “X-Label” field
~z         [MIN]-[MAX]  messages with a size in the range MIN to MAX
~=         duplicated messages (see $duplicate_threads)
~$         unreferenced messages (requires threaded view)
~(PATTERN) messages in threads containing messages matching PATTERN, e.g. all threads containing messages from you: ~(~P)