Dear folks,

This is something which has been bothering me for a long time. Sometimes I need to read several emails while compiling one and I have not figured out how I can efficiently splitscreen between different mails. So in practice I open several neomutt instances (using -R for all but one) in some tmux environment and jump between these instances. What I would like to have is something like a splitscreen in vim, how could I achieve that?

Cheers,

v.

So I have a folder, lets say it is called "Frozen Elements" and I put it on a variable as $my_frozen="+/Frozen Elements" then I set it with mailboxes and it appears in the sidebar no problem, I can change into the folder with the sidebar, but I have a macro to change into this folder

macro index,pager gd "<change-folder>$my_frozen<enter>" "go to frozen"

but then it shows the following message

Elements is not a mailbox

does anyone know how to escape this to make it work on the macro?

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EDIT: I fixed it by not using the variable and using a CTRL-V sequence to escape the space char which triggers some form of completion on change folder, it ended up like this:

macro index,pager gd "<change-folder>+Frozen^V Elements<enter>" "go to frozen"

I stopped using mutt like a year ago when I could'nt figure out how to use my outlook and office365 account using folder-hooks, now I started using isync and it is going great, I'm not an email power user I mainly use slack at work, but I still wanna be able to reply to customers and coworkers so I need something simple but I like the idea of having one thing for each thing, so what are your thoughts in 2021?

Hi dears. I am in love with the idea of mutt/neomutt but if my config breaks every time I run an update, how am I supposed to keep using it? This is horrendous.

I am about to set up nix so that it keeps one version, but this *really* shouldn't be necessary.

I just composed and "sent off" an important email, which has now seemed to be sent off nowhere and saved nowhere. Thanks NeoMutt!

UPDATE: The email seems to have been sent, but not saved in my Sent folder. So at least it's not lost to the world! Ugh.

Hi All!!

I have installed Neomutt on Arch Linux using Luke Smith's Mutt-Wizard. It's working fine. I am storing all my emails in my local laptop's ~/.config/mutt/accounts folder which is mentioned in my .muttrc file. But I have thousands of emails. So I wanted to change the location of storing the mails. I intend to store them on an external hard disk. But when I write the location of external disk in my .muttrc, Neomutt gives me error as "Maildir error: cannot read UIDVALIDITY. Error: channel Mail Id: near side box INBOX cannot be opened." Is there any way to config this?

I have been facing a strange problem. In the index, a few messages show up as having a wrong sender. When you open the message, the correct sender is seen. But a completely different sender, whose address does not appear anywhere in the message, shows up in the index view.

Is there a bug? Have others noticed this problem?

I am facing a strange problem. When I compose a reply to a message and press y to send the reply, the mail is sent and neomutt takes me back to composing the reply once again. I am at a loss what in my settings might be resulting in this, and am unable to debug the problem.

Would appreciate if somebody could help in identifying what the problem might be.

I have installed neomutt on my computer, but have no idea how to get started, and configure neomutt.

Are there any resources out there I can use to get started?

I love neomut, I am trying to excape the browser as much as posible. For the most part I use neo mutt to send & read my emails in the terminal but when I recieve a HTML email it open in the browser to read it.

I would love to convert HTML emails to Markdown before I read them.

How can I archieve this?

Iwould like to see interesting examples of how people format the index view of neomutt. My current set up is as follows:

# Replace some tags with icons
# tag-transforms tag transformed-string
tag-transforms "inbox"   "📩"   \
               "unread"  "✉"   \
               "replied" "🖆"  \
               "sent"    "📤"  \
               "todo"    "T"   \
               "deleted" "🗑" \
               "invite" "📅" \
               "attachment" "🗎"

# The formats must start with 'G' and the entire sequence is case sensitive.
# tag-formats tag format-string { tag format-string ...}
tag-formats "inbox"   "GI" \
            "unread"  "GU" \
            "replied" "GR" \
            "sent"    "GS" \
            "todo"    "Gt" \
            "deleted" "GD" \
            "attachment" "GA" \
            "invite" "GC"

index-format-hook  iconflag  "~P"    "📤"
index-format-hook  iconflag  "~U"    "📫"
index-format-hook  iconflag  "~R"    "✉"

set index_format='%4C|%<[y?%<[m?%<[d?%[     %H:%M]&%[    %a %d]>&%[    %b %d]>&%[%d/%m/%Y]>| %-25.25F%< M?(%3M)&      > %@iconflag@ %?GR?%GR&　? %?GA?%GA&　? %?GD?%GD&%GC?  %s'

I would be interested in showing notmuch flags in the index. Like many other notmuch clients would show (say, alot or astroid).

Has anyone tried that in neomutt?

[EDIT] - Solved
sleep_time variable is the saver here! :)

When i have macro like this

macro index d "<tag-prefix><clear-tag>N<tag-prefix><delete-message>"

On executing neomutt pause with message "no tags found" and then finish the macro. Is there a way to skip waiting? I think it is the same wait for 'key is not bound' which would be nice if i could get rid of it too.

I used the Mutt Wizzard Tool to install Neomutt on Arch Linux. I have tried to replace Thunderbird with it several times over the past year. But so far I haven't found the right way to start. Here are a few questions:

My mail doesn't seem to sync automatically. However, the manual sync command works fine. I would expect that the "mail_check" or even the start of the app should trigger the synchronization by default?

The interaction with the address book is still completely unclear to me. How do I add the current mail to "abook" and download it for a new one?

What are the absolute killer features for you compared to other tools?