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<h4 class="subsection">3.5.2 How to Specify Message Sets</h4>

<p>Many mail commands such as print and delete can be given a <em>message list</em>
to operate upon.  Wherever the message list is omitted, the command
operates on the current message.
</p>
<p>The <em>message list</em> in its simplest form is one of:
</p>
<dl compact="compact">
<dt>.</dt>
<dd><p>Selects current message.  It is equivalent to empty message list.
</p></dd>
<dt>*</dt>
<dd><p>Selects all messages in the mailbox.
</p></dd>
<dt>^</dt>
<dd><p>Selects first non-deleted message.
</p></dd>
<dt>$</dt>
<dd><p>Selects last non-deleted message.
</p></dd>
</dl>

<p>In its complex form, the <em>message list</em> is a comma or whitespace-separated
list of <em>message specifiers</em>.  A <em>message specifier</em> is one
of
</p>
<dl compact="compact">
<dt>Message Number</dt>
<dd><p>This specifier addresses the message with the given ordinal number
in the mailbox.
</p></dd>
<dt>Message range</dt>
<dd><p><em>Message range</em> is specified as two message numbers separated by
a dash.  It selects all messages with the number lying within that range.
</p></dd>
<dt>Attribute specifier</dt>
<dd><p>An <em>Attribute specifier</em> is a colon followed by a single
letter.  The <em>Attribute specifier</em> addresses all messages in the
mailbox that have the given attribute.  These are the valid attribute
specifiers:
</p>
<dl compact="compact">
<dt>&lsquo;<samp>:d</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dd><p>Selects all deleted messages.
</p></dd>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp>:n</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dd><p>Selects all recent messages, i.e. the messages that have not been
neither read not seen so far.
</p></dd>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp>:o</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dd><p>Selects all messages that have been seen.
</p></dd>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp>:r</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dd><p>Selects all messages that have been read.
</p></dd>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp>:u</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dd><p>Selects all messages that have <em>not</em> been read.
</p></dd>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp>:t</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dd><p>Selects all tagged messages.
</p></dd>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp>:T</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dd><p>Selects all untagged messages.
</p></dd>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>Header match</dt>
<dd><p>The <em>header match</em> is a string in the form:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">[<var>header</var>:]/<var>string</var>/
</pre></div>

<p>It selects all messages that contain header field <var>header</var>
matching given <var>regexp</var>.  If the variable <code>regexp</code> is set,
the <var>string</var> is assumed to be a POSIX regexp.  Otherwise, a
header is considered to match <var>string</var> if the latter constitutes
a substring of the former (comparison is case-insensitive).
</p>
<p>If <var>header</var>: part is omitted, it is assumed to be &lsquo;<samp>Subject:</samp>&rsquo;.
</p></dd>
<dt>Message body match</dt>
<dd><p>The <em>message body match</em> is a string in the form:
</p>
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<pre class="example">:/<var>string</var>/
</pre></div>

<p>It selects all messages whose body matches the string.  The matching
rules are the same as described under &ldquo;Header match&rdquo;.
</p></dd>
</dl>

<p>A <em>message specifier</em> can be followed by <em>message part
specifier</em>, enclosed in a pair of brackets.  A <em>message part
specifier</em> controls which part of a message should be operated upon.
It is meaningful only for multipart messages.  A <em>message part
specifier</em> is a comma or whitespace - separated list of part numbers
or ranges.  Each part number can in turn be <em>message part specifier</em>,
thus allowing for operating upon multiply-encoded messages.
</p>
<p>The following are the examples of valid message lists:
</p>
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