READMSG.MAILUTILS(1)

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💌 readmsg.mailutils — print messages 💌

okay bestie, welcome to the readmsg.mailutils page from the User Commands manual. yes it's a manpage, yes it's giving very "read your mail like a main character", let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

readmsg.mailutils — print messages. that's it, that's the whole job description, and honestly? iconic 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

readmsg.mailutils [OPTION...]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

GNU readmsg — print messages. fr fr, it prints messages, that's the vibe.

Here's the whole option menu, no skips, no cuts, we're eating the entire plate 🍓

  • -a, --[no-]show-all-match — print all messages matching the pattern, not just the first one. greedy in the best way 💅
  • -d, --debug — display debugging information. crumbs of truth ✨
  • -e, --exact — match exact string (this is the default, so it's already serving)
  • -f, --folder=FOLDER — folder to use
  • -g, --glob — match using a globbing pattern
  • -h, --[no-]header — display entire headers
  • -i, --ignorecase — case-insensitive matching, so HELLO and hello are literally the same person
  • -m, --[no-]mime — decode MIME messages on output
  • -n, --[no-]no-header — exclude all headers
  • -p, --[no-]form-feeds — output formfeeds between messages
  • -r, --regex — match using POSIX regular expressions
  • -w, --weedlist=LIST — list of header names separated by whitespace or commas

🔧 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
💀 heads up bestie: mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options. so don't be out here thinking the short version plays by different rules, no cap.

🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

Found a bug? spill the tea to <bug-mailutils@gnu.org>.

GNU Mailutils home page: <http://mailutils.org>

General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

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. read that again, bestie. no warranty. periodt.

🌈 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. like, wrong address babes, don't @ them.

okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💅✨

this little number came to you courtesy of FSF, dated August 2026, and it lives at READMSG.MAILUTILS(1). go read some messages, bestie 🫶🎀

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