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muttprofile

NAME

muttprofile - Choose a Mutt Profile

SYNOPSIS

muttprofile [-a|--active string] [-d|--dir directory] [-h|--help] [-p|--profile regexp] [-v|--view] [-V|--Version] [profile]

DESCRIPTION

muttprofile is a simple utility to choose a profile to be used with Mutt email-client. It has two operating modes: command-line and interactive. Muttprofile goes to interactive mode if no command-line arguments are present or option -v|--view is present without profile name.

Muttprofile looks for profile files in the Mutt directory, opens them and looks for NAME and DESC definitions. It then creates a symbolic link to the profile chosen by the user. The rest of the work is done with a Mutt macro.

USAGE

Interactive mode:

Type the name of the profile and the program creates a symlink to load the profile. Press <tab> to complete, <ctrl-d> to see list of choices.

Command-line options:

-a | --active Set the name for active profile symlink, default is profile.active

-d | --dir Set the Mutt directory, default is ~/.mutt

-h | --help prints a short help and exits

-p | --profile (Perl) Regexp to match profile files in Mutt directory

-v | --view Instead of creating a symlink, view profile contents

-V | --version prints the version information and exits (use --version for long and -V for short version)

profile if profile exits, create the symlink to load it from Mutt, otherwise exit with error

INSTALL

Muttprofile requires no installation, but you might have to check the first line of the file ("#!/usr/bin/perl -w") and change the path to perl if needed ('which perl' might be useful here :-)

SETTING UP PROFILES

Muttprofile checks the profile files for the following information:

# NAME: name for your profile

# DESC: description of your profile

This information is used for choosing and displaying available profiles. DESC is optional, but if NAME is missing, filename is used instead.

USING MUTTPROFILE FROM MUTT

Perhaps the easiest way to invoke muttprofile from mutt is to bind a key with mutt macro command. For example, adding this to your muttrc-file

macro  index   <F10>   ``!muttprofile\n:source ~/.mutt/profile.active\nm'' ``New message with profile''

binds the function key <F10> to start muttprofile, load the profile and start a new message

EXIT CODES

The default exit codes for muttprofile are:

     0 OK
     1 PROFILE ALREADY ACTIVE
     2 ERROR
 
 

These codes can be used in shell scripts etc.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Discussion of profiles with Mutt: http://www.iki.fi/martti.rahkila/mutt/

Mutt home page: http://www.mutt.org

REQUIREMENTS

muttprofile requires Mutt (obviously :-) and Perl version 5 or later.

The required perl modules are "Term::Complete" and "Getopt::Long" that both come with the Perl distribution.

Please note that the "Term::Complete" module in Perl 5.8.0 may produce an error. This has been fixed in Perl 5.8.1.

LICENCE

muttprofile is distibuted under GNU General Public Licence (GPL), same as Mutt. For details, see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

BUGS

No known bugs at the moment. Inevitably to appear sooner or later.

VERSION HISTORY

1.0.1 (current)

Two bugfixes, details can be found from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=218957 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=218960

Additional bugfix regarding a case when active profile exist but is a file instead of symlink.

2003-11-20 Martti Rahkila

1.0.0

First public release.

2000-05-10 Martti Rahkila

AUTHOR

   Martti Rahkila
   martti.rahkila@iki.fi
   http://www.iki.fi/martti.rahkila/mutt
 
 

SEE ALSO

mutt(1), perl(1)