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2.\" $Id: mitmailshow.1,v 1.1 2004-01-21 23:08:35 rbasch Exp $
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4.TH MITMAILSHOW 1
5.SH NAME
6mitmailshow \- show messages in an IMAP folder
7.SH SYNOPSIS
8.B mitmailshow
9[
10.B \--by-uid
11] [
12.B \--debug
13] [
14.B \--help
15] [
16.B \--host
17.I name
18] [
19.B \--mailbox
20.I name
21] [
22.B \--no-mark
23] [
24.B \--peek
25]
26.I message-ID
27[ ... ]
28.SH DESCRIPTION
29The
30.I mitmailshow
31program displays each of the specified messages from a folder on an IMAP
32server to the standard output.  The output is not filtered; to process
33MIME messages, consider piping the output to the \fImhshow(1)\fR command.
34.SH OPTIONS
35.I mitmailshow
36understands the following options:
37.TP
38.B \--by-uid
39specify that the given message ID arguments are unique identifiers, not
40sequence numbers.
41.TP
42.B \--debug
43turn on debugging.
44.TP
45.B \--help
46display usage information and exit.
47.TP
48.B \--host \fIname\fR
49query the given host, instead of the default post office server.
50.TP
51.B \--mailbox \fIname\fR
52display messages from the IMAP folder \fIname\fR.  If this option is
53not specified,
54.I mitmailshow
55displays messages from the INBOX folder.
56.TP
57.B \--no-mark
58do not mark the message(s) as having been seen.
59.TP
60.B \--peek
61same as \fB--no-mark\fR.
62.SH ARGUMENTS
63.I mitmailshow
64requires one or more message ID arguments to be given.  The ID is
65either the message's sequence number, or, if the
66.I \--by-uid
67option is given, its unique identifier.
68.I mitmailscan(1)
69can be used to obtain the message ID.
70
71The message ID argument can be \fB*\fR, to indicate the last message
72in the mailbox.  An argument of the form
73.IB ID1 : ID2
74can be used to specify a range of IDs.
75.SH "SEE ALSO"
76mitmailscan(1), mitmaildel(1), mhshow(1),
77imtest(1), RFC\-2060 (Internet Message Access Protocol - Version 4rev1)
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