Sunday, September 13, 2009

Status flags in Mutt

Taken from the online Mutt manual

http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-2.html#ss2.3

Status Flags

In addition to who sent the message and the subject, a short summary of the disposition of each message is printed beside the message number. Zero or more of the following ``flags'' may appear, which mean:

D

message is deleted (is marked for deletion)

d

message have attachments marked for deletion

K

contains a PGP public key

N

message is new

O

message is old

P

message is PGP encrypted

r

message has been replied to

S

message is PGP signed, and the signature is succesfully verified

s

message is PGP signed

!

message is flagged

*

message is tagged

Some of the status flags can be turned on or off using

  • set-flag (default: w)
  • clear-flag (default: W)

Furthermore, the following flags reflect who the message is addressed to. They can be customized with the $to_chars variable.

+       message is to you and you only
T message is to you, but also to or cc'ed to others
C message is cc'ed to you
F message is from you
L message is sent to a subscribed mailing list

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