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-
- NAME
- SplitMbox
-
- SYNOPSIS
- SplitMbox [-c] outTemplate bytesPerFile inTemplate [outstart# [instart#]]
-
- DESCRIPTION
- SplitMbox is a manual utility useful for those people (like me)
- who archive all their email. I archive my email by having an
- Alias append mail to my user name, dillon, to a file called
- 'mbox', in addition to sticking it in my 'dillon' mail box.
-
- I then set up dmail such that it does not try to transfer
- read items into the mbox (because the mail has already been
- stuck there by the alias). I also set the dmail 'archive'
- variable so any mail I send out is also archived to the same
- mbox.
-
- What generally happens is that your MBOX file slowly grows
- larger and larger. At some point, so dmail can access it
- reasonably fast, you rename it and start a new mbox. Eventually
- you end up with something that might look like this:
-
- mbox.001 423433
- mbox.002 253933
- mbox.003 983943
-
- SplitMbox will take a sequence of files starting with
- <inTemplate>.001 and break them up on item boundries
- to output files starting with <outTemplate>.001 ... for
- example,
-
- SplitMbox tmp:out 200000 mbox
-
- SplitMbox will take the files mbox.001, mbox.002, and mbox.003
- (it goes on until it can find no more files), and outputs
- tmp:out.001, tmp:out.002, tmp:out.003, tmp:out.004, etc....
- where the tmp:out#? files are on the order of 200KBytes each,
- allowing for easy compression and storage to floppy.
-
- You can specify additional arguments to set the starting number
- for the input template (default is 1) and starting number for
- the output template (default is 1).
-
- Additionally, if you give the -c option SPLITMBOX will automatically
- run COMPRESS on every output file closed out, leaving the last one
- (that didn't reach the byte limit) uncompressed. You can then
- copy the archived files to floppy for permanent storage.
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