Is there a way to view the message-id (msgid) when receiving email using the Linux mail command?

Question

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I have a program that extracts email from the command line using the mail command as follows:

The Message-ID/msgid is not part of the resulting email

Is there a way to keep the message-id when reading the email?

We need the message-id since we want to track down certain emails that need investigation

Any help will be great!

echo 'p 1-1' | mail -f filename

Answer 1

It turns out that we can get the message-id by issuing the following command:

echo 'P 1-1' | mail -f filename