Re: How to use --searchset to filter resultant messages

Todd Zullinger <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:25:18 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Charles Cazabon wrote:
> ttbil1 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I could not figure out how to use the --searchset/-s option to pass a search
>> key that would filter the resultant messages.  I did not find the --help
>> explanation very clear and also the man page did not have anything about the
>> option at all.
> 
> getmail does not have such an option, so of course the man page doesn't
> mention it.  Where did you get the idea that it did?

The getmail6 hostile fork strikes again.  This appears to be
a feature of that badly-named software. :/

-- 
Todd
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