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3.8.1 Invocation of readmsg.

-a

--show-all

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

-d

--debug

Display mailbox debugging information.

-e

--exact

Look for messages containing exactly the words given as arguments. This is the default. Other options changing this behavior are: --glob, --regex, and --ignorecase.

-f mailbox

--folder=mailbox

Specified the default mailbox.

-g

--glob

Treat non-option arguments as shell globbing patterns. For example, to select the first message with words ‘morning’ and ‘coffee’ with anything bewteen them:

readmsg --glob 'morning*coffee'

(notice quoting, which prevents the shell from interpreting the ‘*’ prematurely).

-h

--header

Show the entire header and ignore the weedlist.

-i

--ignorecase

Ignore the case of letters when looking for matching messages. E.g.:

readmsg --glob --ignorecase 'morning*coffee'

-n

--no-header

Do not print the message header.

-p

--form-feed

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

-r

--regex

Treat non-option arguments as POSIX extended regular expressions.

-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-".

See also Common Options.