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<h1>Muttprofile</h1>
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Muttprofile is a utility to choose <a href="profiles.html">profiles</a> with the
<a href="http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/~mara/mutt/index.html">Mutt</a> email client. It is useful at least in the following
cases:
<ul>
<li>You have so many profiles that it is hard to find convenient key mappings
to load them (Mutt does make extensive use of the keyboard already :-)
<li>You have so many profiles that is is hard to remember how many of them
you actually have or what are they for?
<li>If you prefer choosing profiles interactively rather than using keyboard shortcuts.
</ul>
<p>
Muttprofile was written in <a href="http://www.perl.com">Perl</a>. It is
distributed under <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General
Public Licence</a> (same as Mutt itself).
<h2>Latest news</h2>
<p>
<b>(2003-11-18)</b> Version 1.0.1 has been released. It includes a couple of
bugfixes.
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<h2>Version history</h2>
<p>
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<td valign="top">1.0.1 (current)</td>
<td valign="top">2000-11-20</td>
<td valign="top">Two bugfixes, details can be found from<br>
<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=218957">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=218957</a><br>
<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=218960">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=218960</a><br>
<p>Additional bugfix regarding a case when active profile
exist but is a file instead of symlink.</p>
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<td valign="top">1.0.0</td>
<td valign="top">2000-05-10</td>
<td valign="top">First public release</td>
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<h2>Requirements</h2>
<p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.mutt.org/">Mutt</a> (obviously :-)
<li><a href="http://www.perl.com/">Perl</a> version 5.x or later
<li>Perl module <b>Term::Complete</b>, comes with Perl5 distributions
<li>Perl module <b>Getopt::Long</b>, comes with Perl5 distributions
</ul>
<p>Please note that the <code>Term::Complete</code> module in Perl 5.8.0
may produce an error. This has been fixed in Perl 5.8.1.
If you are stuck with perl 5.8.0, I have a
<a href="muttprofile_perl580.html">separate page</a> explaining
the problem and how to fix it.
</p>
<p>
Muttprofile is a somewhat Unix-oriented tool in its
command-line operation. It also makes use of symbolic links.
I don't know if it works under other operating systems.
</p>
<h2>Download</h2>
<p>
<a href="http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/~mara/mutt/muttprofile">Download muttprofile version 1.0.1</a> (14 kB)
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/muttprofile.html">Debian package</a><br>
</p>
<h2>Installation</h2>
<p>
Muttprofile itself requires no special installation but you might want to check the first line of
the file (<code>#!/usr/bin/perl -w</code>)
and change the path to perl if needed (<code>'which perl'</code> might be useful here :-)
<p>
After that you need to tell Mutt how to call muttprofile and load the active profile.
Perhaps the easiest way to invoke muttprofile from mutt is to bind a
key with mutt macro command. For example, adding this to your <b>muttrc</b>-file
<p>
<pre><b>
macro index <F10> "!muttprofile\n:source ~/.mutt/profile.active\n" "Call muttprofile and load profile"
</b></pre>
binds the function key <F10> to call muttprofile and load the new active profile.
<p>
Other examples:
<p>
<pre><b>
macro index <F10> "!muttprofile\n:source ~/.mutt/profile.active\n^f" "Call muttprofile, load profile and forget PGP passphrase"
</b></pre>
binds the function key <F10> to call muttprofile, load the new active profile and tells
Mutt to forget the currently active PGP passphrase.
<p>
<pre><b>
macro index <F10> "!muttprofile\n:source ~/.mutt/profile.active\n^fm" "New message with profile"
</b></pre>
binds the function key <F10> to start muttprofile, load the profile, forget the PGP
passphrase and start a new message.
<p>
In the profile files, you may want to add the following:
<pre>
# NAME: name for your profile
# DESC: description of you profile, optional
</pre>
<p>
In the interactive mode, muttprofile displays these to help you choose a profile.
If they are missing, filename is used instead of the NAME. DESC is optional.
<h2>Documentation</h2>
<p>
Dodumentation is included in POD format. You can read it
using <code>perldoc -F muttprofile</code>.
<p>
For convenience, you can find the corresponding man page here:
<tt>muttprofile(1)</tt>
<p>
<b>Short summary</b>:<br>
muttprofile looks for profile files in your mutt directory, reads
NAME and DESC keywords, let's you choose a profile based on those
and finally creates a symbolic
link that points to that profile file. Thus Mutt only needs
to load one profile (the active profile).
<h2>Future development</h2>
<p>
At the moment, muttprofile is what it is and stays that way.
If necessary (propably not) I'll try to keep it functional with
new versions of Mutt and Perl.
</p>
<h2>Acknowledgments</h2>
<p>
Martin F. Krafft maintains a <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/muttprofile.html">Debian package</a> of muttprofile. Ha has also helped and encouraged me a lot.
</p>
<p>
Martin Schulze found two bugs in muttprofile and provided fixes as well.
For details, see the
<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=muttprofile">
Debian Bug Reoprt logs</a>. These fixes are now included in the 1.0.1 release.
</p>
<p>
Matti Airas helped me a lot when first writing muttprofile: for example he suggested
the idea of using symlinks and to use NAME and DESC keys in the profiles.
He also introduced me to Mutt :-)
<p>
Rikard Florin continued work with muttprofile. He rewrote
muttprofile to include a graphical user interface. Unfortunately,
his version seems to be no longer available. It used to be
<a href="http://www.ratblast.net/muttprofile/">here</a>.
<p>
The people in the mutt-users mailing list gave me valuable help
with mutt configuration.
<h2>See also</h2>
<p>
<a href="profiles.html">Information on (Sender) profiles with Mutt</a><br>
<a href="http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/~mara/mutt/index.html">Martti Rahkila's Mutt Resources</a>
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URL: http://www.iki.fi/martti.rahkila/mutt/muttprofile.html<br>
Last update: 2003-11-20<br>
Author: Martti Rahkila <br>
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