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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 subdiirectory off the current level.
You may want to PKZIP one or more of the *.DMP files and then move them out of
your Eudora subdirectories, perhaps storing them on a floppy diskette for
purposes of retaining them. As long as you are reasonably sure you will not
want to be doing responses or something in Eudora, you can delete the messages
from the mailboxes you save this way.
EUMAIL.DOC 4 Revised: 05/13/96
Personally, I save all of my outgoing messages for some reason. I then save an
ASCII version of what I sent, compress it, and then delete them en masse.
If you'd like, you can get just the table of contents for the messages and skip
the actual dump of the messages themselves. This can be achieved by using the
/HEADER option.
If you later decide you want to kill off all of the *.DMP files, pass in the
parameter /KILLDUMP and it will take care of them for you.
Specifying parameters:
Parameters for this program can be set in the following ways. The last setting
encountered always wins:
- Read from an *.INI file (see BRUCEINI.DOC file),
- Through the use of an environmental variable (SET EUMAIL=whatever), or
- From the command line (see "Syntax" below)
Syntax:
EUMAIL { /Eeudora_sub | /SCAN [ d: ] } [ /Ooutput_sub ]
[ /NL=filename | /-NL ] [ /REPEAT ]
[ /NS=filename | /-NS ] [ /n ] [ /nK ] [ /n% ]
[ /DUMP | /HEADERS | /SPLIT | /KILLDUMP ] [ domain ]
[ /Q ] [ /Iinitfile | /-I ] [ /? ]
where:
"/Eeudora_sub" is the location where you installed Eudora. There is no default
for this parameter; /SCAN C: will be invoked if one is not provided and this
can take awhile. The use of a EUMAIL.INI file is heavily recommended to set
this parameter (see BRUCEINI.DOC).
"/SCAN d:" specifies that the program is to search for the Eudora subdirectory.
(It actually looks for the first file named NNDBASE.TXT.) A disk drive can be
specified (e.g. "/SCAN E:"). If none is provided, the program will scan your C:
drive for the file. Searching can take awhile; use of the "/Eeudora_sub"
parameter is recommended.
"/Ooutput_sub" is the subdirectory in which you want to write the two output
files. This subdirectory must exist already. It defaults to /OC:\TEMP. Again,
the use of a EUMAIL.INI file is heavily recommended (see BRUCEINI.DOC).
"/NL=filename" specifies the filename that the nickname listing is to go to. If
no drive/path information is specified, this file will be written to your
/Ooutput_sub specification. Otherwise, the name will override the /Ooutput_sub
specification. Saying "/-NL" or "/NL=" without any filename indicator will
suppress the creation of the nicknames file altogether. Defaults to
/NL=EUMAIL.TXT.
"/-NL" suppresses the creation of the nickname file entirely.
EUMAIL.DOC 5 Revised: 05/13/96
"/REPEAT" says to repeat the names of the nicknames when they're listed. It
looks better if you don't repeat them but if you use something like FIND on the
file, you might want to have them repeating. Initially defaults to /-REPEAT.
"/-REPEAT" is the opposite of "/REPEAT". The name of the nickname only appears
once even if it contains five e-mail addresses. There very first example in
this documentation shows the output with /-REPEAT. This is initially the
default.
"/NS=filename" specifies the filename that the mailbox/folder summary listing is
to go to. If no drive/path information is specified, this file will be written
to your /Ooutput_sub specification. Otherwise, the name will override the
/Ooutput_sub specification. Saying "/-NS" or "/NS=" without any filename
indicator will suppress the listing of the summary altogether. Defaults to
/NS=EUMAIL.BOX.
"/-NS" suppresses the creation of the mailbox summary file entirely.
"/n" specifies that any mailbox with more than "n" entries is to be indicated on
the screen when the program runs. The test for this is done independently of
the tests for the number or entries or the absolute filesize test; any box with
more than /n message or with a filesize bigger than /nK or a share of more than
/n% will be displayed unless /Q is specified. Defaults to /100.
"/nK" specifies that any mailbox with more than "n" thousand (K) bytes is to be
indicated on the screen when the program runs. The test for this is done
independently of the tests for the number or entries or the absolute filesize
test; any box with more than /n message or with a filesize bigger than /nK or a
share of more than /n% will be displayed unless /Q is specified. Defaults to
/100K.
"/n%" specifies that any mailbox with more than "n" percentage (%) of the total
bytes used by all stored mail is to be shown on the screen when the program
runs. The test for this is done independently of the tests for the number or
entries or the absolute filesize test; any box with more than /n message or with
a filesize bigger than /nK or a share of more than /n% will be displayed unless
/Q is specified. Defaults to /5%.
EUMAIL.DOC 6 Revised: 05/13/96
"/DUMP" says to dump the contents of the mailboxes out as plain ASCII text
documents. The program generates one text file for each mailbox. The program
will also add a table of contents in front of each dump for you. The dump files
will be the name of the folder with a *.DMP file extension. Note that the
messages will appear in the order they show up when you view them on the screen
and you may want to re-sort them all first. Defaults to /-DUMP (don't create
the dump files).
"/HEADERS" says to write out the message headers only, not the actual messages.
The header files will be the name of the folder with a *.DMP file extension.
"/SPLIT" takes each messages and dumps it as a individual text file. The files
will be named as the DOS name of the mailbox with numeric extensions beginning
with 001 (e.g. TRASH.001, TRASH.002, etc).
"/KILLDUMP" deletes any *.DMP files it finds. Also deletes any of the
/SPLIT-produced files (e.g. TRASH.001) that it finds. This is used if you
later decide you don't want any of the *.DMP files around or if you've already
moved out the ones you need and you no longer want the rest of them around.
(Note: /KILLDUMP will not delete any *.DMP or *.xxx files for you if you've
deleted the mailbox itself.)
"domain" restricts /DUMP and /HEADERS processing to only those files whose names
begin with a particular character string. As an example, if you just want to
dump the "Out" mailbox, pass in "OUT". Note that this will also dump other
mailboxes whose names begin with "OUT". By default, all mailboxes are dumped if
any are.
"/Q" says that no individual mailboxes are to be indicated on the screen when
the program runs. This ignores any /n, /nK, or /n% settings.
"/Iinitfile" says to read an initialization file with the file name "initfile".
The file specification *must* contain a period. Initfiles are described in the
BRUCEINI.DOC file. Initially defaults to "/IEUMAIL.INI".
"/INULL" says to skip loading the initialization file.
"/?" or "/HELP" or "HELP" shows you the syntax for the command.
EUMAIL.DOC 7 Revised: 05/13/96
Author:
This program was written by Bruce Guthrie of Wayne Software. It is free for use
and redistribution provided relevant documentation is kept with the program, no
changes are made to the program or documentation, and it is not bundled with
commercial programs or charged for separately. People who need to bundle it in
for-sale packages must pay a $50 registration fee to "Wayne Software" at the
following address.
Additional information about this and other Wayne Software programs can be found
in the file BRUCEymm.DOC which should be included in the original ZIP file.
("ymm" is replaced by the last digit of the year and the two digit month of the
release. BRUCE603.DOC came out in March 1996. This same naming convention is
used in naming the ZIP file that this program was included in.) Comments and
suggestions can also be sent to:
Bruce Guthrie
Wayne Software
113 Sheffield St.
Silver Spring, MD 20910
fax: (301) 588-8986
e-mail: bguthrie@nmaa.org
http://hjs.geol.uib.no/guthrie/
See BRUCEymm.DOC file for additional contact information.
Foreign users: Please provide an Internet e-mail address in all correspondence.