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    "mode": "man",
    "parameter": "messages.mailutils",
    "section": "1",
    "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/messages.mailutils/1/json",
    "generated": "2026-06-03T00:21:28Z",
    "synopsis": "messages.mailutils [OPTION...] [mailbox...]",
    "sections": {
        "NAME": {
            "content": "messages.mailutils - count the number of messages in a mailbox\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SYNOPSIS": {
            "content": "messages.mailutils [OPTION...] [mailbox...]\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "DESCRIPTION": {
            "content": "GNU messages -- count the number of messages in a mailbox\n",
            "subsections": [
                {
                    "name": "-q -s --[no-]quiet --silent",
                    "content": "only display number of messages\n\nGlobal debugging settings\n\n--debug-level=LEVEL\nset Mailutils debugging level\n\n--[no-]debug-line-info show source info with debugging messages\n\nConfiguration handling\n\n--config-file=FILE\nload this configuration file; implies --no-config\n",
                    "flag": "-s",
                    "long": "--silent"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--config-lint",
                    "content": "check configuration file syntax and exit\n",
                    "long": "--config-lint"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--config-verbose",
                    "content": "verbosely log parsing of the configuration files\n",
                    "long": "--config-verbose"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--no-config",
                    "content": "do not load site and user configuration files\n",
                    "long": "--no-config"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--no-site-config",
                    "content": "do not load site-wide configuration file\n",
                    "long": "--no-site-config"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--no-user-config",
                    "content": "do not load user configuration file\n\n--set=PARAM=VALUE\nset configuration parameter\n\nInformational options\n",
                    "long": "--no-user-config"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--config-help",
                    "content": "show configuration file summary\n",
                    "long": "--config-help"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--show-config-options",
                    "content": "show compilation options\n\n-?, --help\ngive this help list\n",
                    "long": "--show-config-options"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--usage",
                    "content": "give a short usage message\n",
                    "long": "--usage"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-V --version",
                    "content": "print program version\n\nMandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corre‐\nsponding short options.\n",
                    "flag": "-V",
                    "long": "--version"
                }
            ]
        },
        "REPORTING BUGS": {
            "content": "Report bugs to <bug-mailutils@gnu.org>.\nGNU Mailutils home page: <http://mailutils.org>\nGeneral help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "COPYRIGHT": {
            "content": "Copyright © 2007-2022 Free Software Foundation, inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL  version  3  or\nlater <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>\nThis  is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to\nthe extent permitted by law.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SEE ALSO": {
            "content": "The complete GNU mailutils documentation is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the mailutils-\ndoc package is installed, the command\n\ninfo mailutils\n\nshould give you access to the complete manual.\nYou can also find this manual online in the GNU mailutils webpage:\nhttps://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/manual/index.html.\nPlease  note  this  manpage was automatically generated by the Debian mailutils packagers. Do\nnot file bugs for its content to the GNU Mailutils upstream authors.\n\n\n\nFSF                                         January 2022                       MESSAGES.MAILUTILS(1)",
            "subsections": []
        }
    },
    "summary": "messages.mailutils - count the number of messages in a mailbox",
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            "flag": "-s",
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            "arg": null,
            "description": "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"
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--config-lint",
            "arg": null,
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        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--config-verbose",
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        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--no-config",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "do not load site and user configuration files"
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--no-site-config",
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        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--no-user-config",
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        },
        {
            "flag": "",
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        {
            "flag": "",
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            "flag": "",
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    ],
    "examples": [],
    "see_also": [
        {
            "name": "MESSAGES.MAILUTILS",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/MESSAGES.MAILUTILS/1/json"
        }
    ]
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