Searching for Messages

The "pick" program allows you to search your 'inbox' (or any other) folder to find messages which contain a certain word. If you want to list all messages from Smith you can type: and it will list the numbers of all messages from Smith that are in the current folder. You can pick messages according to any of the headers ("-to", "-from", "-subj", "-cc", or "-date") or just search all the messages for a given word ("-search").

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