3.5.4.6 Displaying Information

‘=’

Displays the current message number.

‘headers [msglist]’

‘h [msglist]’

Lists the current pageful of headers.

‘from [msglist]’

‘f [msglist]’

Lists the contents of ‘From’ headers for a given set of messages.

‘z [arg]’

Presents message headers in pagefuls as described for headers command. When arg is ‘.’, it is generally equivalent to headers. When arg is omitted or is ‘+’, the next pageful of headers is displayed. If arg is ‘-’, the previous pageful of headers is displayed. The latter two forms of z command may also take a numerical argument meaning the number of pages to skip before displaying the headers. For example:

          & z +2

will skip two pages of messages before displaying the header summary.

‘size [msglist]’

‘si [msglist]’

Lists the message number and message size in bytes for each message in msglist.

‘folders’

Displays the value of folder variable.

‘summary’

‘su’

Displays current mailbox summary. E.g.:

          

          & summary
          "/var/spool/mail/gray": 23 messages 22 unread