.Dd July 22, 2016
.Dt MSORT 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm msort
.Nd sort mail messages
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl r
.Op Fl f | Fl d | Fl s | Fl F | Fl M | Fl S
.Op Ar msgs\ ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
sorts mail messages according to various orders.
See
.Xr mmsg 7
for the message argument syntax.
.Pp
If no messages are passed,
.Nm
will read file names from standard input,
or use the default sequence if used interactively.
.Pp
.Nm
prints the sorted messages line by line.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl r
Reverse order.
.It Fl f
Sort by
.Sq Li From: .
.It Fl d
Sort by date.
.It Fl s
Sort by
.Sq Li Subject\&:
(modulo various variants of
.Sq Li Re: ) .
.It Fl F
Sort by file name, using proper order for numbers in file names.
.It Fl M
Sort by message file modification time.
.It Fl S
Sort by message file size.
.El
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mmsg 7
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Christian Neukirchen Aq Mt chneukirchen@gmail.com
.Sh LICENSE
.Nm
is in the public domain.
.Pp
To the extent possible under law,
the creator of this work
has waived all copyright and related or
neighboring rights to this work.
.Pp
.Lk http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/