NAME

       mpick — advanced message filter

SYNOPSIS

       mpick [-T] [-v] [-t test] [msglist ...]

DESCRIPTION

       mpick prints all matching messages.

       If  used interactively, mpick will default to the current sequence.  Otherwise, mpick will read filenames
       from the standard input.

       The options are as follows:

       -T      Include whole thread.

       -t test
               Only show messages matching the expression test, see “TESTS”.

       -v      Print how many messages were tested and picked to standard error.

MSGLISTS

       mpick message lists (msglist) are mostly compatible with mailx(1).  They are message specifications  used
       as shortened “TESTS”, and can include:

       n       Message number n.

       n:m, n-m
               An inclusive range of message numbers between n and m.

       address
               All messages from address.

       /string
               All messages with string in the subject line (case ignored).

       :c      All messages of type c, where c shall be one of:

               D       Draft messages.

               P       Passed (resent, forwarded or bounced) messages.

               R       Replied messages.

               F       Flagged messages.

               d, T    Deleted messages.

               n       New messages.

               o       Old messages.

               r, S    Read messages.

               u       Unread messages.

TESTS

       mpick tests are given by the following EBNF:

       <expr>     ::= <expr> || <expr>  -- disjunction
                    | <expr> && <expr>  -- conjunction
                    | ! <expr>          -- negation
                    | ( <expr> )
                    | <flagprop>
                    | <timeprop> <numop> <dur>
                    | <numprop> <numop> <num>
                    | <strprop> <strop> <str>
                    | prune             -- do not match further messages in thread
                    | print             -- always true value

       <flagprop> ::= child | draft | flagged | info | new | parent | passed
                    | replied  | seen | selected | trashed

       <timeprop> ::= atime | ctime | mtime | date

       <numprop>  ::= depth | kept | replies | index | size | total

       <numop>    ::= <= | < | >= | > | == | = | !=

       <dur>      ::= "./path"          -- mtime of relative path
                    | "/path"           -- mtime of absolute path
                    | "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS"
                    | "YYYY-MM-DD"      -- at midnight
                    | "HH:MM:SS"        -- today
                    | "HH:MM"           -- today
                    | "-[0-9]+d"        -- n days ago at midnight
                    | "-[0-9]+h"        -- n hours before now
                    | "-[0-9]+m"        -- n minutes before now
                    | "-[0-9]+s"        -- n seconds before now
                    | [0-9]+            -- absolute epoch time

       <num>      ::= [0-9]+ ( c        -- *1
                             | b        -- *512
                             | k        -- *1024
                             | M        -- *1024*1024
                             | G        -- *1024*1024*1024
                             | T )?     -- *1024*1024*1024*1024
                    | cur               -- index of cur message

       <strprop>  ::= from | subject | to
                    | <str>             -- header name

       <strop>    ::= == | = | !=       -- string (in)equality
                    | ===    | !===     -- case insensitive string (in)equality
                    | ~~     | !~~      -- glob (fnmatch)
                    | ~~~    | !~~~     -- case insensitive glob (fnmatch)
                    | =~     | !=~ | !~ -- POSIX Extended Regular Expressions
                    | =~~    | !=~~     -- case insensitive POSIX Extended Regular Expressions

       <str>      ::= " ([^"] | "")+ "  -- use "" for a single " inside "
                    | $[A-Za-z0-9_]+    -- environment variable

EXIT STATUS

       The mpick utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES

       You can pick mails to move them into another maildir.

             mv $(mlist ./INBOX | mpick -t 'from =~ "@github"') ./github/cur

       Or you can use mpick to pick mails from the current sequence.

             mpick -t 'subject =~~ "mblaze"' | mscan

       A  more  advanced  mpick expression to pick mails in a certain time span, which are flagged as replied or
       not seen.

             mpick -t 'date >= "2016-01-01" && date < "2017-01-01" && (replied || !seen)'

       And to find other mblaze users.

             mpick -t '"User-Agent" =~~ "mblaze"' | mscan

SEE ALSO

       lr(1), mailx(1)

AUTHORS

       Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>
       Duncan Overbruck <mail@duncano.de>

LICENSE

       mpick is in the public domain.

       To the extent possible under law, the creator of this work  has  waived  all  copyright  and  related  or
       neighboring rights to this work.

       http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Debian                                            July 27, 2016                                         MPICK(1)