Messages: how to sort and filter

When displaying any list of mail messages you can use special filters and search to find the message you need. To refine the search, various clever combinations of symbols and commands are used, called syntax. All the examples below work for any mail type: ideas, stories, changes, news and so on.

Format: note list unread

Displays all unread messages.

Format: note list -N

Displays the last N messages. Useful for viewing recent changes.

Format: note list text="*search*"

note list text="brevity is my sister" Displays all letters containing the word search in the text, or all letters whose text exactly matches "brevity is my sister".

Format: note list from=taiphoen

Displays all letters from a given author.

Format: note list to="*lion*"

Displays all letters to a given recipient -- in this case, the Lion Pride.

Format: note list subj="*Naked aarakocrans*""

note list subj!="*Sultan's Taxes*"" Displays all letters whose subject is "Naked aarakocrans" or NOT "Sultan's Taxes"

Format: note list id>=A and id<=B

Displays all letters with a sequence number greater than A but less than B.

FOR THE CLEVER

• For numerical arguments such as the message number (ID), arithmetic operations + -, comparison operators > < >= <= = != are defined
• For strings, comparison = and !=. When comparing strings, glob patterns can be used: * ? []
• For expressions, logical operations and, or and brackets ().