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

MODULES

       muttprofile  uses  the  perl  modules  "Term::Complete"  and  "Getopt::Long" that both come with the Perl
       distribution.

LICENCE

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

BUGS

       None known so far. Inevitably to appear sooner or later.

VERSION

       1.0.0 (current)
              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)

perl v5.8.0                                        2003-01-15                                     MUTTPROFILE(1)