READMSG(1)

📦 version 3.16, in opensuse-leap 16.0

💌 READMSG(1) — the readmsg manual, but make it make sense

okay bestie, welcome to readmsg(1) — yes that's the manual name, it's a User Command, and we're gonna get through this together 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

readmsg — manual page for readmsg 3.16. that's it, that's the name section, she's short and sweet 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

readmsg [OPTION...]

literally just the program name and some options. slay, no required arguments, we love a low-effort entry point 💖

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

GNU readmsg — print messages. that's the whole gig, no cap 🎀

okay so here's every single flag you can throw at her, laid out in the order they appear. no skipping, no "oh you won't need this one" — we're doing all of them:

  • -a, --[no-]show-all-match — print all the messages that match your pattern, not just the first one. greedy in the best way 👑
  • -d, --debug — display debugging information. for when you wanna see what's going on under the hood 🔍
  • -e, --exact — match the exact string (this is the default, so like, she's already doing this) 🎯
  • -f, --folder=FOLDER — the folder to use. point it at your FOLDER and go 🗂️
  • -g, --glob — match using a globbing pattern. wildcards are iconic ✨
  • -h, --[no-]header — display the entire headers. all of them. the full lore 📜
  • -i, --ignorecase — case-insensitive matching, so HELLO and hello are the same girl fr fr 🙈
  • -m, --[no-]mime — decode MIME messages on output. untangle that encoding mess 💌
  • -n, --[no-]no-header — exclude all headers. no headers, just vibes 💀
  • -p, --[no-]form-feeds — output formfeeds between messages. little page-break moment 🎀
  • -r, --regex — match using POSIX regular expressions. for the regex girlies 🔥
  • -w, --weedlist=LIST — a list of header names, separated by whitespace or commas. that's LIST, bestie 🧚

🌈 Global debugging settings

  • --debug-level=LEVEL — set the Mailutils debugging level ⭐
  • --[no-]debug-line-info — show source info with debugging messages. receipts, basically 🧾

🦋 Configuration handling

  • --config-file=FILE — load this configuration file; implies --no-config ⚠️ (yes, it overrides — that's the tea)
  • --config-lint — check configuration file syntax and exit. grammar check but for config 🎀
  • --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 the site-wide configuration file 🙅
  • --no-user-config — do not load the user configuration file 🙅‍♀️
  • --set=PARAM=VALUE — set configuration parameter. PARAM equals VALUE, set it 💅

🌸 Informational options

  • --config-help — show a summary of the configuration file 📖
  • --show-config-options — show compilation options 🛠️
  • -?, --help — give this help list. hi, that's this 🌟
  • --usage — give a short usage message. the tl;dr version 💜
  • -V, --version — print program version 🏷️
⚠️ real talk: mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options. so don't think you can sneak past it with the short form, the rules follow you 😭

🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

found a bug? don't be shy, report it to <bug-mailutils@gnu.org> — they wanna hear it fr fr 💖

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

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

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. like, none. zero. don't come for them 😭

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

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

info readmsg

should give you access to the complete manual. go off, read the extended lore 📚✨

and that's the page, bestie 🫶 this was GNU Mailutils 3.16, dated February 2024 — READMSG(1), signed, sealed, slaying 💅🎀

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