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- splitmail - Split a large mail message into MIME-compliant partial
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- sssspppplllliiiittttmmmmaaaaiiiillll [-d] [-v] [-D command] [-s splitsize] [-p prefix] [-i id-
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- The _s_p_l_i_t_m_a_i_l program will take an email message and break it up into
- smaller pieces using the "message/partial" type defined by MIME, the
- proposed Internet standard for multimedia mail formats.
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- By default it will take the message either from standard input or the
- named file, and will produce a set of partial message files with names
- like "/tmp/split.1" for the first part, and so on. The prefix
- "/tmp/split." can be overridden using the "-p" option.
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- If the -d option is specified, the mail will actually be delivered. If
- -v is specified, the verbose flag will be passed to sendmail. If the -D
- option is specified, the mail will be delivered using the given command,
- regardless of -d or -v.
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- The -i option can be used to make splitmail generate the pieces with
- similar (but not identical) message-id fields, in a format which allows
- them to be easily correlated with one another and which end with the
- suffix provided on the command line after -i.
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- The default chunk size for spliting messages is 250000 at most sites,
- though this is also a compile-time option. This can be overriden with
- the -s switch, or with the environment variable SPLITSIZE.
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- Messages smaller than the chunk size will not be turned into partial
- messages, but will be written to a single file or delivered as a single
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- SPLITSIZE overrides the default chunk size. Setting SPLITSIZE to, say,
- 4000000 will effectively ensure that your messages are unlikely ever to
- be split, but it may cause them to be rejected by some mail transport
- software.
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- If the size of the input is just on the fencepost, and if it is coming
- from a file rather than standard input, splitmail will sometimes estimate
- the number of parts wrong and will have to write out an extra part. This
- is harmless but annoying. It is especially annoying if the estimate was
- 2 but the real number was 1.
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- Copyright (c) 1992 Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore)
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- Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this material for any
- purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
- copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies, and
- that the name of Bellcore not be used in advertising or publicity
- pertaining to this material without the specific, prior written
- permission of an authorized representative of Bellcore. BELLCORE MAKES
- NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR SUITABILITY OF THIS MATERIAL FOR
- ANY PURPOSE. IT IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
- WARRANTIES.
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- Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Bellcore
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