FROM.MAILUTILS(1)

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version 3.21 · 7 versions
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✨ NAME ✨

from.mailutils — bestie, it shows you the from and the subject. That's it, that's the whole gig 💌

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

from.mailutils [OPTION...] [OPTIONS] [USER]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

GNU from — display from and subject. Your lil inbox tour guide fr fr 🫶

  • -c, --[no-]count — literally just prints how many messages there are, then dips. Count and ✌️ out.
  • -d, --debug — turns on debugging output, so you can see all the behind-the-scenes drama 👀
  • -f, --file=FILE — read mail from FILE instead of wherever it'd normally look
  • -s, --sender=ADDRESS — only show you mail whose from-address contains the string you pass in. Like a lil filter, no cap 🎀

Global debugging settings

  • --debug-level=LEVEL — set the Mailutils debugging level, i.e. how much tea gets spilled
  • --[no-]debug-line-info — show source info alongside your debugging messages

Configuration handling

  • --config-file=FILE — load this configuration file; heads up, it implies --no-config
  • --config-lint — check that the configuration file's syntax is valid, then exit
  • --config-verbose — very loudly, verbosely log the parsing of the configuration files
  • --no-config — don't load site config files or user config files
  • --no-site-config — don't load the site-wide configuration file
  • --no-user-config — don't load the user configuration file
  • --set=PARAM=VALUE — set a configuration parameter to a value

Informational options

  • --config-help — show a summary of the configuration file
  • --show-config-options — show the compilation options
  • -?, --help — give this help list (hello, it's me you're looking for 👋)
  • --usage — give a short usage message
  • -V, --version — print the program version
ok important detail bestie, don't skip this one: mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options. that's the rule, periodt 💅

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Found a bug? Don't gatekeep, report it to <bug-mailutils@gnu.org>.

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. not even a lil bit, bestie 💀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

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

info mailutils

should give you access to the complete manual. Iconic.

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

⚠️ real talk: this manpage was automatically generated by the Debian mailutils packagers. So if something in here is cursed, do not file bugs about its content to the GNU Mailutils upstream authors. Wrong door, beloved 🙈

that's the whole page, you ate it, no crumbs 🌈 brought to you by the FSF, dated August 2026 — go forth and read your mail like a main character ✨💖

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