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76 Chapter 7. Email Applications
These messages are in a default mail folder, often called the mailspool, that you can think of as your
inbox. Use the [K] and [J] keys on your keyboard to move the highlighted cursor up and down the list
of messages.
In the index or pager views, use the [R] key to reply to a message or the [M] key to create a new
one. Mutt will prompt for the To: address and the Subject: line. A text editor (defined by your $EDI-
TOR environmental variable in the configuration file) will then launch allowing you to compose your
message. Type away, when you save and exit, you are done.
After the editor, mutt drops you into the compose menu, here you can fine-tune your message headers,
change the encoding, add file attachments or simply hit the [Y] key to say yes and send your email on
its way.
To learn more, refer to the man pages for muttrc and mutt (type man muttrc or man mutt at the
shell prompt). You may also find the mutt manual to be very helpful. The mutt manual is installed in
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.2.x, where x is the version number of mutt installed on your system.