FRM.MAILUTILS(1)

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💌 frm.mailutils(1) — User Commands, bestie edition ✨

okay so you found the manual page for frm.mailutils, part of GNU mailutils, and it lives in the User Commands section of the manual. buckle up, this one's short and sweet. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

frm.mailutils — display From: lines.

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe. it shows you the From: lines and it does it iconically. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

frm.mailutils [OPTION...] [URL ...]

so you give it some options (or don't, no pressure bestie) and then optionally some *URL*s. yeah, URLs. mailboxes can be URLs here. it's giving versatile. 🦋

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

GNU frm — displays From: lines. that's the main character energy right there. 👑

here's every single flag, no skips, no cuts, fr fr:

  • -d, --debug — turn on debugging output. it'll yap about what it's doing. very "not me being transparent about my feelings". 🔍
  • -f, --field=NAME — pick which header field to display. NAME is the field, you choose it. you're in charge, periodt. 📝
  • -l, --[no-]to — include the To: information too. the --no-to version just… doesn't. both exist. take your pick. 💌
  • -n, --[no-]number — display message numbers. number them, or don't, with --no-number. 🔢
  • -Q, --Quiet — do NOT display headers. capital-Q Quiet, capital-Q Silence. shhh. 🤫
  • -q, --query — prints a message if the mailbox has some unread mail in it. tiny little notification bestie. 💬
  • -S, --[no-]summary — print a summary of messages. the tl;dr of your mailbox. 📋
  • -s, --status=STATUS — select messages with a specific attribute. the options are: new, unread, old (which is the same as unread, lowkey a twin situation), or read — or literally any unambiguous abbreviation of those words. yes, abbreviations count, go off. 🏷️
  • -t, --[no-]align — tidy mode: aligns the subject lines. so satisfying. the alignment is chef's kiss. 🧹

🔥 Global debugging settings 🔥

  • --debug-level=LEVEL — set the Mailutils debugging level. LEVEL controls how much it yells at you about internals. 📢
  • --[no-]debug-line-info — show source info alongside debugging messages. the receipts, basically. 🧾

🎀 Configuration handling 🎀

  • --config-file=FILE — load this configuration file. heads up: this implies --no-config. so it overrides the usual config loading, iykyk. 📂
  • --config-lint — check the configuration file's syntax and then exit. a lil vibe check for your config. ✅
  • --config-verbose — verbosely log the parsing of the configuration files. so chatty. so thorough. 💬
  • --no-config — don't load site and user configuration files. at all. 🚫
  • --no-site-config — don't load the site-wide configuration file. just that one. 🏢
  • --no-user-config — don't load the user configuration file. just that one. 🧍
  • --set=PARAM=VALUE — set a configuration parameter. PARAM gets VALUE. done. 🎛️

🌈 Informational options 🌈

  • --config-help — show a summary of the configuration file. the sparknotes. 📖
  • --show-config-options — show the compilation options. how it was built, tea. 🛠️
  • -?, --help — give this help list. hi, that's this. 👋
  • --usage — give a short usage message. the tiny version. 🐣
  • -V, --version — print the program version. ✨
💡 okay bestie, important little note: mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options. so like, if the long one wants a value, the short one wants it too. they match. they're a set. 🫶

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? tell the mailutils girlies:

Copyright © 2007-2025 Free Software Foundation, inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

💀 "NO WARRANTY" in all caps is not a joke, bestie. it's real. legally real.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

The complete GNU mailutils documentation is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the mailutils-doc package is installed, the command

info mailutils

should give you access to the complete manual.

You can also find this manual online in the GNU mailutils webpage: https://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/manual/index.html

Please note this manpage was automatically generated by the Debian mailutils packagers. Do not file bugs for its content to the GNU Mailutils upstream authors.

and that's the whole page, bestie!! it was brought to you by the FSF, dated August 2026, and honestly? she ate. 💖✨🎀 go check your From: lines, you deserve it. 🫶

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