MESSAGES.MAILUTILS(1)

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💌 MESSAGES.MAILUTILS(1) — the vibe

okay bestie, so this whole page lives in the User Commands section of the mailutils manual, and it's giving "how many emails are in this mailbox" energy. yes that's it. that's the whole job. and honestly? iconic.

✨ NAME ✨

messages.mailutils — count the number of messages in a mailbox 🎀

🫶 SYNOPSIS 🫶

messages.mailutils [OPTION...] [mailbox...]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

GNU messages — count the number of messages in a mailbox. periodt. that's the mission statement, no notes.

So here's the rundown of everything you can pass it:

  • -q, -s, --[no-]quiet, --silent — only display number of messages. that's it, that's the flex, just the number, no extra yapping 🙈

🔥 Global debugging settings 🔥

  • --debug-level=LEVEL — set Mailutils debugging level
  • --[no-]debug-line-info — show source info with debugging messages

🧚 Configuration handling 🧚

  • --config-file=FILE — load this configuration file; implies --no-config
  • --config-lint — check configuration file syntax and exit
  • --config-verbose — verbosely log parsing of the configuration files
  • --no-config — do not load site and user configuration files
  • --no-site-config — do not load site-wide configuration file
  • --no-user-config — do not load user configuration file
  • --set=PARAM=VALUE — set configuration parameter

👑 Informational options 👑

  • --config-help — show configuration file summary
  • --show-config-options — show compilation options
  • -?, --help — give this help list
  • --usage — give a short usage message
  • -V, --version — print program version
⚠️ quick heads up: mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options. lowkey important, no cap.

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Found a bug? spill the tea 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. (yes, the capitals are theirs and they're screaming it for a reason bestie 🫠)

🌈 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. fr fr, wrong address, don't do it 🙈

and that's the whole page bestie, go count some messages 💅✨

coming at you from the FSF, dated August 2026, stamped MESSAGES.MAILUTILS(1) — mwah, slay, bye 🦋🌸

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