Kyle, I have been using a bookmark for http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual. I now see that a more up to date manual is here http://dev.mutt.org/doc/manual.html where this is documented. -Vance On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:48:17AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: } From the muttrc man page: } } =b STRING messages which contain STRING in the message body. If } IMAP is enabled, searches for STRING on the server, } rather than downloading each message and searching it } locally.