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- EUMAIL.DOC 1 Revised: 04/21/96
-
- 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.
-
-
- What files does EUMAIL.EXE create for you?
-
- EUMAIL can create three files:
- (1) A dump of your Eudora e-mail data base
- (2) A summary of your Eudora mailboxes and folders
- (3) An ASCII dump of the contents or just the message headers of each of your
- mailboxes
-
-
- 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 are:
- * The nickname you've defined for this user
- * The actual name (if any) of that user
- * The e-mail address for that user
-
- 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.
-
-
-
- EUMAIL.DOC 2 Revised: 04/21/96
-
- 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: 04/21/96
-
- 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. These dump
- files will be in your mailbox storage subdirectories.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
-
- EUMAIL.DOC 4 Revised: 04/21/96
-
- 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 [ /Ooutput_sub ] [ /NL=filename | /-NL ] [ /REPEAT ]
- [ /NS=filename | /-NS ] [ /n ] [ /nK ] [ /n% ]
- [ /DUMP | /HEADERS | /KILLDUMP ] [ domain ]
- [ /Q ] [ /Iinitfile | /-I ] [ /? ]
-
- where:
-
- "/Eeudora_sub" is the location where you installed Eudora. There is no default
- for this parameter; it must be specified. The use of a EUMAIL.INI file is
- heavily recommended to set this parameter (see BRUCEINI.DOC).
-
- "/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.
-
- "/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.
-
-
- EUMAIL.DOC 5 Revised: 04/21/96
-
- "/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%.
-
- "/DUMP" says to dump the contents of the mailboxes out as plain ASCII text
- documents. 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.
-
- "/KILLDUMP" deletes any *.DMP files 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.
-
- "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 6 Revised: 04/21/96
-
- 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.
-
-