MFLAG(1)

📦 version 1.4, in alpine 3.24, debian bookworm, debian trixie, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 MFLAG 💖

okay so you've stumbled into the mflag manual page, which lives in the General Commands Manual section, and honestly bestie? you're in the right place. let's get into it. ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

mflag — manipulate maildir message flags

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mflag [-DFPRST] [-X str]
      [-dfprst] [-x str]
      [-v] [msgs ...]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

mflag changes the flags of the specified maildir msgs according to the options you feed it. no cap, that's the whole job. 🫶

(peep mmsg(7) for the message argument syntax, because that's where the whole "msgs" thing is explained. iykyk.)

the options are as follows, and yes we're listing every single one because they all matter 💅:

  • -D — mark msgs as draft.
  • -F — mark msgs as flagged.
  • -P — mark msgs as passed (that's resent/forwarded/bounced, bestie).
  • -R — mark msgs as replied.
  • -S — mark msgs as seen.
  • -T — mark msgs as trashed.
  • -X str — mark msgs with the characters in str.
  • -d — unmark msgs as draft.
  • -f — unmark msgs as flagged.
  • -p — unmark msgs as passed (resent/forwarded/bounced).
  • -r — unmark msgs as replied.
  • -s — unmark msgs as seen.
  • -t — unmark msgs as trashed.
  • -x str — unmark msgs with the characters in str. (and bestie, please remember to use uppercase characters here, this one bites people fr fr. 😭)
  • -v — read messages from the standard input (or use the whole current sequence, if you use it interactively) and print the transformed list of filenames. this one is the ✨main character✨ because it can be used to keep the sequence intact in the case of renames. obsessed.
heads up: the link to ${MBLAZE:-$HOME/.mblaze}/cur is updated in all cases, when affected. every time. no exceptions. 💀

⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

the mflag utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. simple as that. 🎀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>

💜 LICENSE 💜

mflag is in the public domain. periodt. 🎀

To the extent possible under law, the creator of this work has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

and that's the whole page bestie, thanks for reading 💖 this one came from Debian, dated July 22, 2016, and it's filed under MFLAG(1) — go forth and flag your mail, you absolute icon. 🦋✨

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