Reference

messages.mailutils(1)

count the number of messages in a mailbox

NAME

messages.mailutils - count the number of messages in a mailbox

SYNOPSIS

messages.mailutils [OPTION...] [mailbox...]

DESCRIPTION

GNU messages -- count the number of messages in a mailbox

-q, -s, --[no-]quiet, --silent

only display number of messages

Global debugging settings

--debug-level=LEVEL

set Mailutils debugging level

--[no-]debug-line-info show source info with debugging messages

Configuration handling

--config-file=FILE

load this configuration file; implies --no-config

--config-lint

check configuration file syntax and exit

--config-verbose

verbosely log parsing of the configuration files

--no-config

do not load site and user configuration files

--no-site-config

do not load site-wide configuration file

--no-user-config

do not load user configuration file

--set=PARAM=VALUE

set configuration parameter

Informational options

--config-help

show configuration file summary

--show-config-options

show compilation options

-?, --help

give this help list

--usage

give a short usage message

-V, --version

print program version

Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
GNU Mailutils home page: <http://mailutils.org>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2007-2024 Free Software Foundation, inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

The complete GNU mailutils documentation is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the mailutils-doc package is installed, the command

info mailutils

should give you access to the complete manual.
You can also find this manual online in the GNU mailutils webpage:
https://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/manual/index.html.
Please note this manpage was automatically generated by the Debian mailutils packagers. Do not file bugs for its content to the GNU Mailutils upstream authors.

History

--config-file since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --config-help since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --config-lint since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --config-verbose since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --debug-level since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --no-config since Debian 9 (Stretch); --no-site-config since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --no-user-config since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --set since Debian 7 (Wheezy); --show-config-options since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).

--debug-line-info until Debian 9 (Stretch); --license until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --lock-expire-timeout until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --lock-flags until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --lock-retry-count until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --lock-retry-timeout until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --mail-spool until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --mailbox-type until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --no-site-rcfile until Debian 8 (Jessie); --no-user-rcfile until Debian 8 (Jessie); --quiet until Debian 9 (Stretch); --rcfile until Debian 8 (Jessie); --rcfile-lint until Debian 8 (Jessie); --rcfile-verbose until Debian 8 (Jessie); --silent until Debian 9 (Stretch); --tls until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -m until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -q until Debian 9 (Stretch); -s until Debian 9 (Stretch).