A google search reveals that there has been various proposal in the past to add an unbind feature to mutt. See for example this proposed patch against mutt 1.5.1:
http://home.uchicago.edu/~dgc/mutt/#unbind I guess the best way would be to propose this wish upstream (http://bugs.mutt.org/) to see what they think. ** Changed in: mutt (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- Should add an 'unbind' command https://launchpad.net/bugs/16750 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs