When I use the "mail" command, it prints a list of messages in my inbox in a format like this: 1 Super User Mon Jun 9 17:13 86/4716 Complete Registration With Stack Exchange However I've noticed that it does this with the oldest messages first. Is there a way to change this behaviour?
asked Jun 9, 2014 at 16:17
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To make this as an answer, I'd suggest to use pine.
The mail command really isn't made for interactive use. It's for bare bones, your system is completely hosed, and you're searching for some email from cron. For anything else, use something newer and designed for day to day use, such as pine or mutt.
answered Jun 9, 2014 at 17:15
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how is this the best answer and there is not even a link to install these applications. Jun 4, 2022 at 8:45
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There is a program here which accomplishes the in-place sorting of a mbox format file by the "Date" header. stackoverflow.com/questions/368003/… Jun 4, 2022 at 9:30
For people still looking for an answer in the base mail application, the best solution I could find is running the h$ command inside mail to jump to the bottom of the list.
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Yes it should. And to read the last message, you can just type
.at the&prompt. Some more helpful tips here: johnkerl.org/doc/…. Nov 30, 2020 at 23:18
There is a program here which accomplishes the in-place sorting of a mbox format file by the "Date" header.
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mail? there are better command line clients, such asmailx, orpine. Pine specifically has better sorting options.pine, see if that is set up on your system.pine,mutt, anything but basemail- it's pretty clunky.mailis present on most rpm based systems, at least until rhel 9 switches to s-nail. It's also available on Ubuntu (probably other deb based systems?). So the correct answer is the one with more votes, below.