Hi there!
I'm pretty newbie at shell scripting, and I need to read my email inbox through shell commands. So far I've been able to see my inbox in the terminal when I type the command mutt. But I need to create a shell script that can filter my messages by subject (in the mutt command mode I type "/wordfilter") but in the shell script this command is not recognized. And after finding the message with certain subject I need to interact with the message body, maybe copying it to a txt file so I can read it easily.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Have you tried the push command to pass a key sequence to mutt? For example
will open an interactive session showing the result of the search. Suppose you want to read the message directly, add another \n (as you pressed enter in interactive mode).
At this point you may want to pass more complicated sequences of keys/commands to accomplish your task. Suppose you want to save the message in a file and quit mutt to avoid interaction:
The pipe-message command is used to pipe the content of the message to an external command. In this case you can save it to a file using cat (as shown). Note that the first part (in grey) is necessary to avoid the "Press any key to continue..." message that usually comes out after the execution of pipe-message. For a complete reference to mutt commands, see the official documentation here: http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-6.html.

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Thank you colucix!! That is exactly what I needed! Yeah, I've been searching the answer to my questions in the mutt manual but there are so many shell commands (non mutt) that I still don't recognize. I'm working on it Thanks a lot.