---
name: "smew"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mew-beta-bin"
version: "7.0.50~6.8+0.20221129-4"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/smew"
---

# smew(1)

search related messages from Mew's database file

## NAME

smew - search related messages from Mew's database file

## SYNOPSIS

smew myid \[*mydb* \[*mydir*\]\]

## DESCRIPTION

The **smew** utility searches related messages from a Message-ID database file with SQLite 3 for Mew.

*myid* is a Message-ID of the message to search.

*mydb* is a database file name.  (default: "~/Mail/id.db")

*mydir* is a directory part of the message in the database. Note that messages are contained as a relative path from "~/Mail". If multiple messages are found by *myid* , the first found one is preferred. However, the message whose directory is *mydir* is preferred to the first one.

The options are as follows:

- **-c**

  Search a parent message only.

- **-p**

  Search a child message only.