MEWL(1)

✨ NAME ✨

mewl — message scanner for Mew 4 or later 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

mewl [options] [folder [range]]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so bestie, listen. the mewl utility extracts the necessary fields out of messages that are stored in folders. that's its whole thing. it's not optional, it's not a nice-to-have — this command is necessary for Mew to implement the asynchronous feature. like, Mew literally cannot do the async thing without it. main character energy fr fr. 👑

the options are as follows:

• -a — print all the necessary fields when picking. all of them. the whole buffet. 🍓
• -b dir — set the Mail home to dir.
• -c bodylen — set the max body length that gets extracted to bodylen. keep it cute, keep it short.
• -d field — set the field to be extracted to field.
• -e command — specify an external command to fetch the mailbox. outsourcing, iconic. 💅
• -m options — specify options for command. (yes, the command from -e. they're a pair, iykyk.)
• -f fields — specify which fields to display.
• -h — display this help message. hi, hello, welcome. 🫶
• -i file — set the input stream to file.
• -l length — set the max field length to be extracted to length. the default value is 3. and 0 means no limit — go feral, bestie, extract everything. 😭
• -n — don't use fstat(). just don't. 🙈
• -p pattern — specify the pick pattern.
• -s src — set message source to src : '+folder range'.
• -w — wait for stdio input to synchronize. patience is a virtue, girlie. ⏳
• -v — display the version.
• -x suffix — use this suffix.

🔮 the symbols, decoded 🔮

Definitions of the symbols above are as follows:

range    N | [start]-[end] | last:N

pattern  ´key=val' | 'key!=val' | '!<pattern>' | '(<pattern>)' |
         '<pattern>&<pattern>' | '<pattern>|<pattern>'

💀 BUGS 💀

if a field is long, only the beginning three lines are extracted by default. yeah. not me finding out the hard way. it's giving "surprise, your field got trimmed" — so set -l if you need more, okay? 😭

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this one's from the General Commands Manual, it's MEWL(1), and it's dated March 5, 2003. slay, mwah 💖