mailfrom(1) | mailfrom(1) |
NAME
mailfrom - summarize mail folders by subject and sender
SYNOPSIS
mailfrom
DESCRIPTION
The mailfrom command reads one or more mail folders and outputs one line per message in the form:
from [subject]
where from is the name of the person the message is from, and subject is the subject of the message, if present. If mailfrom determines that the message is from you, the from portion will read To user, where user is the user the message was sent to. This happens when you receive a copy of a letter you sent.
The default folder is your incoming mailbox, /var/mail/yourloginname. See the Operands subsection below.
Options
mailfrom recognizes the following options:
Print a brief help message summarizing the options. | |
Number the messages using the same numbering scheme used by readmail. | |
Very quiet mode. Only error messages are produced. This option is useful in shell | |
| scripts, where only the success or failure of the program is important, and output is |
| not desired. |
Quiet mode. Output only a | |
Add a summary of the number of messages by message status in each mailbox or | |
| folder. To get the summary only, use this with the |
| form: |
| Folder contains: |
| New messages: n |
| Unread messages: u |
| Read messages: r |
| If an item count, n, r, or u is zero, the line is omitted. |
Only display headers from messages with the given status. status can be one of new, | |
| old, read, or unread. old and unread are equivalent. The |
| repeated to print header information from more than one category, for example, only |
| new and unread messages. The values can be abbreviated to their ®rst letters. The |
| default is all messages. |
Tidy mode. If the from ®eld is long enough to displace the subject ®eld from its normal | |
| start column, move the subject down onto the next line. |
Verbose mode. Print a descriptive header before listing the contents of each mailbox | |
| or folder. |
Operands
mailfrom recognizes the following optional operands:
folder⏐username
A ®le name or the name of a mail user on your system. You can use the =®lename format to specify a folder in your mail directory, de®ned by the maildir string variable in your elmrc con®guration ®le.
mailfrom searches for the value as a ®le name relative to your current directory. Then, if the ®le name is not an absolute path, it searches for the value relative to the incoming mailbox directory, /var/mail. The ®rst ®le found is selected. You must have read access to the ®le.
EXIT STATUS
mailfrom returns the following values:
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