mailfrom(1)						      General Commands Manual						       mailfrom(1)

NAME

       mailfrom - summarize mail folders by subject and sender

SYNOPSIS

       status] [folder|username]...

DESCRIPTION

       The 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 determines that the
       message is from you, the from portion will read 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, See the Operands subsection below.

   Options
       recognizes the following options:

	      Print a brief help message summarizing the options.

	      Number the messages using the same numbering scheme used by

	      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 one-line summary for each mailbox or folder.

	      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 option.  The summary has the form:

			     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 or and are equivalent.  The option can be repeated to print header information  from	more  than
			     one  category, for example, only new and unread messages.	The values can be abbreviated to their first letters.  The
			     default is all messages.

	      Tidy mode.     If the from field is long enough to displace the subject field 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
       recognizes the following optional operands:

	      folder|username
			     A	file  name  or	the  name  of a mail user on your system.  You can use the format to specify a folder in your mail
			     directory, defined by the string variable in your configuration file.

			     searches for the value as a file name relative to your current directory.	Then, if the file name is not an  absolute
			     path,  it	searches  for the value relative to the incoming mailbox directory, The first file found is selected.  You
			     must have read access to the file.

RETURN VALUE

       returns the following values:

	      Messages matching
		     status are present.

	      No messages matching
		     status are present, but there are some messages.

	      There are no messages at all.

	      An error occurred.

       If multiple mailboxes or folders are specified, the exit status only applies to the last one examined.  This can  be  used  in  scripts	to
       determine what kind of mail a user has.

EXAMPLES

       Display header information from all the messages in your mailbox.

       Display header information from all new messages in your mailbox.

       Assuming you have the proper file permissions to read mail, print out header information from all new and unread messages in incoming mail-
       box.

       Print only a summary of how many new, unread, and read messages are in your incoming mailbox.

AUTHOR

       was developed by HP.

FILES

       Your			configuration file.

       Directory of incoming mailboxes.

SEE ALSO

       elm(1), mail(1), mailx(1), readmail(1).

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