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EUMAIL.DOC 1 Revised: 05/13/96
The EUMAIL.EXE program does some summarizing for the Eudora Internet e-mail
program.
What is Eudora? Eudora is an excellent Internet e-mail program. It's put out
by QUALCOMM Incorporated in San Diego California. The latest version of Eudora
Light can be found on ftp.qualcomm.com, in the directory
quest/windows/eudora/1.5. The Windows freeware user manual can also be found on
ftp.qualcomm.com, in the directory quest/windows/eudora/documentation.
EUMAIL, on the other hand, is a freeware utility which reads Eudora's files and
provides the following benefits:
* Allows you to save your Eudora nickname file (containing individuals and
groups with the corresponding e-mail addresses) as a DOS text file which
is useful for searching and such.
* Presents a summary of how many messages you have in each of your mail
folders, including their date range and their total size in bytes, plus
what share of total mailbox bytes this particular folder accounts for.
* Allows you to dump all (or a subset of your mailboxes) as straight ASCII-
text files. There will be one text file per mailbox, prefaced by a table
of contents for all messages in that mailbox.
* Allows you to write the table of contents only as an ASCII text file.
* Allows you to write each individual message as an incremented file name
(TRASH.001, TRASH.002, etc).
* Allows you to process all mailboxes or all mailboxes whose names begin
with a certain string.
The e-mail data base:
EUMAIL creates a dump of your e-mail data base. This includes all of your
nicknames and comments (the use of comments is heavily recommended). This is an
ideal file to use the DOS FIND command (or the Wayne Software BFIND command) to
search through. A sample of the format:
BanBruce : Bruce Guthrie <bguthrie@doc.gov>
BanForrest : Forrest Williams <fwilliams@doc.gov>
BanJoe : Joe Correia jcorreia@doc.gov
BanTravis : Travis Mayo <tmayo@doc.gov>
WS_READ : Billy Rudock <billy_rudock@notes.seagate.com>
[2]: Les Ferch <ferch@cce.ubc.ca>
[3]: Martin Mossakowski <mossako@asterix.uni-muenster.de>
[4]: Tony Vincent <tonyvinc@iconz.co.nz>
XList > requests: majordomo@chaos.taylored.com
XList > msg: SUBSCRIBE X-FILES
XList > msg: SUBSCRIBE X-FILES-DIGEST
XList > msg: UNSUBSCRIBE X-FILES
XList : x-files@chaos.taylored.com
The fields in the file are:
* The nickname you've defined for this user
* The actual name (if any) of that user
* The e-mail address for that user
EUMAIL.DOC 2 Revised: 05/13/96
Comments are indicated with ">" entries and they appear before the actual entry.
Nicknames which define multiple users are sorted by actual name and then by
e-mail address. Typically, as is shown above, only the first instance of the
nickname is shown with all of the individual contacts shown with item counts.
Alternatively, you can use the /REPEAT option and the nickname label will repeat
for each item. The latter option is useful when you are using the FIND or BFIND
command to searchfor all members of a particular group.
The summary of your Eudora mailboxes and folders:
EUMAIL creates a summary of all the mailboxes and folders you've created. These
show the number of messages, the date range, and file size, and what percent of
total bytes consumed each box accounts for. A complete dump of what mine looked
like when I ran it:
Box/folder name msgs earliest -> newest bytes % of
bytes
In 19 02/02/96 -> 03/03/96 75,336 1%
Trash 291 02/15/96 -> 03/03/96 677,407 13%
Out 431 02/24/96 -> 03/03/96 461,383 9%
BMG 17 01/30/96 -> 02/21/96 39,311 1%
Humor 44 01/11/96 -> 03/02/96 154,464 3%
Kevin 25 05/31/95 -> 02/27/96 45,156 1%
Misc 30 02/04/96 -> 03/01/96 63,273 1%
SAAB 44 01/31/96 -> 03/01/96 123,530 2%
SAAB Digests 50 02/22/96 -> 03/02/96 1,925,477 36%
SF-Lovers 3 01/22/96 -> 02/29/96 43,542 1%
SF-News 46 01/17/96 -> 03/01/96 538,093 10%
Simtel 1 12/11/95 -> 12/11/95 15,339 0%
Soniat 7 10/06/95 -> 01/24/96 10,498 0%
System 4 09/28/95 -> 02/21/96 10,080 0%
Wayne 28 01/21/96 -> 02/29/96 70,486 1%
Work 4 02/20/96 -> 02/22/96 5,526 0%
WWW site 25 01/25/96 -> 02/28/96 55,695 1%
X-Files 73 02/03/96 -> 03/02/96 248,217 5%
Keep
Keep-Other 16 12/11/94 -> 01/04/96 46,881 1%
Keep-Ithaca 12 12/10/95 -> 02/07/96 20,651 0%
Keep-Pamela 24 12/21/95 -> 02/21/96 74,663 1%
Keep-SAAB 10 01/21/96 -> 02/16/96 17,836 0%
Keep-Wayne 20 10/22/93 -> 02/15/96 64,244 1%
Keep-X-Folk 21 12/01/95 -> 02/21/96 78,818 1%
Listers
Chigs 11 02/11/96 -> 02/25/96 23,518 0%
Debbie 13 02/03/96 -> 02/29/96 26,948 1%
Ithaca 83 02/08/96 -> 03/01/96 143,692 3%
Munchkyn 28 12/15/95 -> 02/29/96 68,709 1%
Pamela 45 02/18/96 -> 03/02/96 70,790 1%
Simon 32 02/26/96 -> 03/03/96 47,685 1%
SpaceGirl 54 02/10/96 -> 03/02/96 92,230 2%
Wendy 12 02/08/96 -> 02/25/96 17,587 0%
32 boxes 1,523 -> 5,357,065 100%
EUMAIL.DOC 3 Revised: 05/13/96
The program, by default, will automatically display information about "large"
boxes based on a combination of three criteria. Lines above will be shown
on-screen for any box which exceeds any of the three criteria. The three are:
* The total number of messages in the box (/n parameter)
* The total number of (thousand) bytes in the box (/nK parameter)
* The percentage of total bytes that that box accounts for (/n% parameter)
The defaults are /100, /100K, and /5%.
If you'd like to turn off the on-screen display entirely, you can specify the /Q
parameter. If you'd like the criteria to be based on one or two criteria only,
specify an unusually large value for the other parameter(s) (e.g. /30000K).
Using an INI file for the criteria (see later) is always an option.
ASCII dumps:
The EUMAIL program will dump the contents of all of your e-mail boxes for you if
you'd like. (Optionally, you can specify that it only dump mailboxes whose
names begin with a certain character string.) In so doing, it creates a table of
contents and divided each article with a page eject for you. The table of
contents looks something like this:
Dump of file E:\NMAA\MAIL\In.mbx Processed on 03-31-1996 at 11:55:00
Contents:
1 hans.schrader@geol.uib.no 07:05 AM 2/2/96 MET 47 lines
Dirtotal changed
2 T. R. Halvorson 09:14 AM 2/23/96 EST 53 lines
Re: HTMSTRIP
3 T. R. Halvorson 09:15 AM 2/24/96 EST 22 lines
Re: HTMSTRIP
The ASCII message dump is requested with the /DUMP parameter. A separate dump
file (with an extension of *.DMP) will be created for each mailbox.
Alternatively, you can request that a separate text file be created for each
message, in which case the file extensions will have incremented names (e.g.
TRASH.001, TRASH.002, etc).
All dump files are left in the same subdirectories you mail is in. Note that
Eudora places each mail folder in a su