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EUMAIL.DOC 1 Revised: 07-19-96
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. (Have you ever tried to find out where
all you have someone's e-mail address referenced in your nickname file?)
* 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 out just the table of contents 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 date format shown is based on your country setting.
EUMAIL.DOC 2 Revised: 07-19-96
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
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.
EUMAIL.DOC 3 Revised: 07-19-96
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:
C:\TEMP\PHONMAIL.OUT generated 07-04-1996 by EUMAIL.EXE
Box/folder name msgs earliest -> newest bytes % of
bytes
In 15 05-21-96 -> 07-05-96 33,199 0%
Trash 594 06-01-96 -> 07-05-96 1,436,568 10%
Out 195 07-01-96 -> 07-04-96 387,056 3%
Hold_Humor 63 06-22-96 -> 07-04-96 180,710 1%
Humor 480 02-06-96 -> 07-04-96 1,742,873 13%
Lists 35 01-22-96 -> 07-04-96 210,148 2%
SF-News 39 01-18-96 -> 07-02-96 1,144,732 8%
Wayne 76 03-29-96 -> 07-04-96 216,839 2%
X-Files 57 03-26-96 -> 07-03-96 159,293 1%
Humans
_Misc 81 02-04-96 -> 07-03-96 171,504 1%
BMG 26 03-18-96 -> 07-02-96 63,339 0%
Chigman 23 02-11-96 -> 03-30-96 47,860 0%
Family 25 01-19-96 -> 07-02-96 38,143 0%
Furys 32 02-12-96 -> 06-05-96 65,398 0%
Meg 11 02-14-96 -> 06-30-96 24,471 0%
Munchkyn 23 12-15-95 -> 06-30-96 33,974 0%
Sarah 7 06-05-96 -> 06-18-96 15,883 0%
Simon 7 06-23-96 -> 07-03-96 15,819 0%
Soniat 19 10-06-95 -> 06-16-96 26,103 0%
Tammy 84 06-07-96 -> 07-03-96 172,299 1%
Webman 12 02-02-96 -> 06-12-96 21,951 0%
Keep
1993 3 10-22-93 -> 10-24-93 7,907 0%
1994 3 05-18-94 -> 12-11-94 20,506 0%
1995 27 01-05-95 -> 12-29-95 78,193 1%
1996 85 01-02-96 -> 02-28-96 226,929 2%
_Hold 52 09-28-95 -> 06-29-96 115,321 1%
Misc
Misc 8 03-16-96 -> 06-29-96 16,708 0%
NMAA 13 03-16-96 -> 06-25-96 21,882 0%
Websites 14 02-20-96 -> 06-23-96 29,665 0%
Work 1 04-08-96 -> 04-08-96 10,867 0%
Out_Prev
Wk25 329 06-17-96 -> 06-23-96 765,256 5%
Wk26 292 06-24-96 -> 06-30-96 491,337 4%
SAAB
Digests 87 06-13-96 -> 07-04-96 3,504,258 25%
Misc 19 03-24-96 -> 07-04-96 49,234 0%
SAABFIC-L 127 04-03-96 -> 07-01-96 2,372,728 17%
35 boxes 2,964 10-22-93 -> 07-05-96 13,918,953 100%
EUMAIL.DOC 4 Revised: 07-19-96
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.
Header formats:
When you request either /DUMP or /HEADERS, the program will generate headers
which describe what messages are in your file. The order of the messages
corresponds to the order shown in Eudora. The exact format of the headers
depends on your value for the /FORMAT=n parameter. The various formats are:
/FORMAT=1: Show one line per mail message. This format closely matches that
shown in Eudora itself. This is initially the default for EUMAIL. /FORMAT=2:
Show two or more lines per message. The subject gets a line
all to itself. You may get three lines for some messages if