3.7 readmsg -- Extract Messages from a Folder

The program, readmsg, extracts with the selection argument messages from a mailbox. Selection can be specify by:

1. A lone "*" means select all messages in the mailbox.

2. A list of message numbers may be specified. Values of "0" and "$" in the list both mean the last message in the mailbox. For example:

   readmsg 1 3 0

   extracts three messages from the folder: the first, the third, and the last.

3. Finally, the selection may be some text to match. This will select a mail message which exactly matches the specified text. For example,

   readmsg staff meeting

   extracts the message which contains the words "staff meeting." Note that it will not match a message containing "Staff Meeting" - the matching is case sensitive. Normally only the first message which matches the pattern will be printed.

Command line options

`-a'

`--show-all'

If a pattern is use for selection show all messages that match pattern by default only the first one is presented.

`-d'

`--debug'

Display mailbox debugging information.

`-f mailbox'

`--folder=mailbox'

Specified the default mailbox.

`-h'

`--header'

Show the entire header and ignore the weedlist.

`-n'

`--no-header'

Do not print the message header.

`-p'

`--form-feed'

Put form-feed (Control-L) between messages instead of newline.

`-w weedlist'

`--weedlist=weedlist'

A whitespace or coma separated list of header names to show per message. Default is --weedlist="From Subject Date To CC Apparently-"