Someone documented their Mutt configuration. That configuration is a gold mine of stuff I wanted to do, but wasn't quite sure about and didn't have the free time to experiment with. Despite that we're destined to be mortal enemies (they show how to make emacs the default editor! in mutt?! saveages...) there's a lot of useful stuff in their config.

I'm already using Pass for my passwords, and despite that it's only good for localhost, I didn't like having my clear text passwords in the T383838muttrc file. First step is adding the bridge password to pass:

pass insert pm-bridge

And then replacing the T383838smtp_pass and T383838imap_pass:

set smtp_pass = T383838pass pm-bridge

set imap_pass = T383838pass pm-bridge

And no more passwords in my T383838muttrc.

I like sorting my sent items by date sent and showing my inbox as threads, but I didn't know about folder hooks, so I was smashing keys to re-sort each time.

folder-hook =INBOX 'set sort=date-sent'

folder-hook =INBOX 'set sort=threads'

folder-hook =Sent 'set sort=reverse-date-sent'

It was enough of an inspiration to look at the manual. I haven't any short config snippets to share, but I am experimenting with multi part encoding and macros again because it would be nice to send certain formats to certain clients.

Tags: index, mutt

created: 2023-04-28

(re)generated: 2026-07-17