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mailfrom(1) mailfrom(1)
NAME
mailfrom - summarize mail folders by subject and sender
SYNOPSIS
mailfrom [-hnQqStv][-s
status ][folder username ]...
DESCRIPTION
The
mailfrom command reads one or more mail folders and outputs one line per message in the form:
from [subject ]
where from is the name of the person the message is from, and subject is the subject of the message, if
present. If
mailfrom determines that the message is from you, the from portion will read
To user,
where user is the user the message was sent to. This happens when you receive a copy of a letter you
sent.
The default folder is your incoming mailbox,
/var/mail/yourloginname. See the Operands subsection
below.
Options
mailfrom recognizes the following options:
-h Print a brief help message summarizing the options.
-n Number the messages using the same numbering scheme used by readmail.
-Q Very quiet mode. Only error messages are produced. This option is useful in shell
scripts, where only the success or failure of the program is important, and output is
not desired.
-q Quiet mode. Output only a one-line summary for each mailbox or folder.
-S Add a summary of the number of messages by message status in each mailbox or
folder. To get the summary only, use this with the -q option. The summary has
the form:
Folder contains:
New messages: n
Unread messages: u
Read messages: r
If an item count, n, r,oru is zero, the line is omitted.
-s status Only display headers from messages with the given status. status can be one of
new, old, read,orunread. old and unread are equivalent. The -s
option can
be repeated to print header information from more than one category, for example,
only new and unread messages. The values can be abbreviated to their first letters.
The default is all messages.
-t Tidy mode. If the from field is long enough to displace the subject field from its nor-
mal start column, move the subject down onto the next line.
-v Verbose mode. Print a descriptive header before listing the contents of each mail-
box or folder.
Operands
mailfrom recognizes the following optional operands:
folder username
A file name or the name of a mail user on your system. You can use the
=filename
format to specify a folder in your mail directory, defined by the maildir string
variable in your elmrc configuration file.
mailfrom searches for the value as a file name relative to your current directory.
Then, if the file name is not an absolute path, it searches for the value relative to
the incoming mailbox directory, /var/mail. The first file found is selected. You
must have read access to the file.
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