LISTMAIL
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NAME
listmail - list the table_of_contents file of a Mail.app mailbox
SYNOPSIS
listmail
[
-nvt
] [ mbox ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Mail.app
creates a list of all messages for each mailbox and stores it in the
table_of_contents file in the mailbox directory.
Listmail
outputs the contents of this file in readable form. Its primary use
is as a debugging tool for corrupted mailboxes, but others uses are
imaginable.
Any number of existing mailboxes may be given as arguments. If the mailboxes
are in the locations where
Mail.app
would look for them the pathname and the `.mbox' extension may be dropped.
Listmail
accepts two options. If it is invoked with
-n
it will list the table_of_contents immediately even if the mailbox is
locked by another program. There is no danger of data corruption as
listmail
never writes any data. If the
-n
option is not given
listmail
will wait for the mailbox to become available just like the other
programs in this suite. The option
-v
causes
listmail
to be more verbose about what it does. The opposite is achieved with
the option
-t.
If it is set
listmail
will only spew the message count to the standard output.
SEE ALSO
appnmail(1)
BUGS
This program by necessity depends on the internal format of Mail.app
files. While it cooperates correctly with NS 2.x and 3.[0123] no
guarantee can be made that this won't change in the future.
AUTHOR
Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu>, Department of Physics, Princeton
University.
The task was made considerably easier by Chris Paris <cap+@cmu.edu>
decoding of the Mail.app transmission and storage formats.
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