2.7 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-”