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I'd like to see the mail's date in the list that appears when I start mutt.

How can I do that?

Mat
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You can set the index_format variable to include all manner of different details about each message. In particular, you probably want the %d format string, which inserts the date formatted according to the value of date_format, or one of the other date format strings, such as %{fmt}, %[fmt], etc. As an example, here is my default index_format setting:

set 'index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%4l) %s"'

Take a look at the documentation for more details on what you can configure, and what the extended date format strings represent.

config file

  • ~/.muttrc or ~/.mutt/muttrc
    User configuration file.

  • /etc/Muttrc
    System-wide configuration file.

#set date_format="%d %b %R"   # 06 May 07:55
set date_format="%F %T"       # 2021-05-06 09:20:03
set index_format="%4C %Z %D %-15.15L (%4l) %s"
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D_Bye
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    Note that if you used `%d` (sender's timezone) or `%D` (your timezone) in index_format, don't enclose it in the curly brackets. For example, if in .muttrc, you have `set date_format="%d %b %R"`, you need to use `set index_format="%4C %Z %D %-15.15L (%4l) %s"` rather than `"%4C %Z %{%D} %-15.15L (%4l) %s"`. Otherwise you'll get the strftime interpretation of `%d` or `%D`. As the man page for strftime says: "Yecch." (-: – Steve HHH Jan 25 '13 at 05:37