rpdump(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay bestie, meet rpdump — the alpine remote data utility. She's from the General Commands Manual, and she's here to help you copy remote Alpine data into a local file. 💖

✨ SYNTAX ✨

rpdump [ -f ] -l Local_file -r Remote_folder

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Rpdump may be used to copy the actual data from remote Alpine configuration files or address books into a local file. It is intended to be used by system administrators. Regular users should normally use the facilities provided within Alpine.

Local_file will normally be a local temporary file. Remote_folder is the IMAP folder being used as a remote Alpine configuration (with the help of Alpine's -P, -p, and -x commands or PINECONF, PINERC, and PINERCEX environment variables) or remote Alpine address book folder. A copy of the data from Remote_folder will be copied to Local_file. It's giving "copy-paste but for your Alpine setup" and honestly? Iconic. 🦋

The options, bestie:

• -f — Force the dump even if the remote folder is in an unrecognized format. Like, "bestie I know this looks weird, do it anyway." 💅
• -l Local_file — The file on this system that is to be copied to. That's your destination file, the one catching all the data. 🎀
• -r Remote_folder — A remote folder name to be copied from. See the Alpine documentation for the syntax of a remote folder name. One example is {my.imap.server}remote_pinerc. Yes, curly braces and all — she's specific. ✨

🦋 DIAGNOSTICS 🦋

Exit status is zero if all goes well, -1 otherwise. So if you see -1, it's not a vibe. 😭

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• Rpload(1) — the other half of the duo, go say hi. 🫶

Copyright 1989-2007 by the University of Washington.

$Date: 2005/01/14 20:40:14 $

and that's the whole page, bestie. rpdump(1) from the General Commands Manual, copyright 1989-2007 by the University of Washington, date-stamped $Date: 2005/01/14 20:40:14 $. Stay iconic, dump responsibly. 💖✨🎀🦋