Mutt, how do I..

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Okay so...

Hopped over to Mutt as my email client. Since it uses less resources.

Now I've two main questions

1. Currently I've a macro to do mutt email -i muttbody.txt -s subject

How would I add text to the body of an email? It just adds it as an 
attachment like mutthostname then numbers.txt instead of putting it in 
the body of the message though

2. Is there a way I can display the number of unread messages somehow, 
like Inbox (2) like I can on a GUI client?