MESSAGES(1)

📦 version 3.16, in opensuse-leap 16.0

💌 MESSAGES(1) — the girlies' guide to counting ur mail 💌

okay so this is the manual page for messages, version 3.16 — a User Command, and honestly? she's a little icon. no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

like, you give her some options, you give her a mailbox or a few, she does her thing. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

GNU messages — bestie, all she does is count the number of messages in a mailbox. that's her whole personality. literally just counting. and she ate. 💅

  • -q, -s, --[no-]quiet, --silent — only display number of messages. that's it, no extra chatter, she's being mysterious. 🤫

🌸 Global debugging settings 🌸

  • --debug-level=LEVEL — set Mailutils debugging level. very "i'm diagnosing u" energy ngl 🔥
  • --[no-]debug-line-info — show source info with debugging messages. iykyk, extra receipts with ur debug tea ☕

💜 Configuration handling 💜

  • --config-file=FILE — load this configuration file; implies --no-config. periodt, she's committing to this file. 🫶
  • --config-lint — check configuration file syntax and exit. a little vibe check for ur config, then she dips ✌️
  • --config-verbose — verbosely log parsing of the configuration files. she's gonna tell u everything, main character energy fr
  • --no-config — do not load site and user configuration files. she's going with nothing, raw, unbothered 🙈
  • --no-site-config — do not load site-wide configuration file. just the site one, skipped 🚫
  • --no-user-config — do not load user configuration file. sorry user config, not today 🍓
  • --set=PARAM=VALUE — set configuration parameter. u are the one setting the vibe here, iconic 👑

⭐ Informational options ⭐

  • --config-help — show configuration file summary. the sparknotes version, slay 📖
  • --show-config-options — show compilation options. lowkey fascinating tbh
  • -?, --help — give this help list. ur girl is pointing u in the right direction 💖
  • --usage — give a short usage message. the tl;dr version 🌈
  • -V, --version — print program version. know her name, know her number 🧚
okay important footnote bestie: mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options. so like, don't think u can sneak around the rules with the short form. the rules apply. both ways. it's giving consistency 💀

🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

found a bug? spill. not to me tho — report bugs to <bug-mailutils@gnu.org>.

Copyright © 2007-2023 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.

real talk 🚨 — "NO WARRANTY" is in ALL CAPS for a reason bestie. free software is a gift, not a promise. respect it. 🙏

💀 SEE ALSO 💀

The full documentation for messages is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and messages programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info messages

should give you access to the complete manual. go read it, she's thorough 💅✨

so yeah. that's her. that's the whole page. this was GNU Mailutils 3.16, dated February 2024 — mwah, love u, bye bestie 🫶💖🎀🦋🌸

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