rpload(1)

💖 rpload(1) — ok so bestie, it's the General Commands Manual and we're in section 1

no preamble, we're going straight in. this is the page for rpload, and it's literally the alpine remote data utility. buckle up 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

rpload — alpine remote data utility 🌸

🦋 SYNTAX 🦋

rpload [ -f ] [ -s trimSize ] -t Type -l Local_file -r Remote_folder

periodt. that's the shape of it.

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so rpload is the girl that takes your local Alpine config files or address books and turns them into remote configurations or address books. she's a converter, she's a translator, she's doing the most.

heads up: this one is intended to be used by system administrators. regular users should normally use the facilities provided within Alpine itself, bestie. this is not a casual little tool. 💀

Local_file will usually be a user's alpine configuration file, and Remote_folder is the IMAP folder that's gonna be used (with the help of Alpine's -p, -P, and -x commands or the PINECONF, PINERC, and PINERCEX environment variables, iykyk) as the user's remote configuration folder. a copy of Local_file gets placed in the folder, with the correct header lines to satisfy Alpine. iconic behaviour, honestly. ✨

🎀 the flags, one by one 🎀

• -f — force the load even if the remote folder is in the wrong format. this will delete the contents of the folder so use it carefully. like, fr fr. main character energy with a destructive streak. 💀
• -s trimSize — if the number of messages in the remote folder is more than one plus trimsize (one is for the header message), then messages 2, 3, and so on will be deleted until there are only one plus trimsize messages left. if this option is not set, no trimming will be done. she just lets it grow. 🌱
• -t Type — the possible Types are pinerc, abook, and sig. (Sig is mostly obsolete. literal signatures contained within the remote pinerc should be used instead.) so like, sig is giving legacy vibes 🙈
• -l Local_file — the file on this system that is to be copied. your source material, bestie.
• -r Remote_folder — a remote folder name to be copied to. see the Alpine documentation for the syntax of a remote folder name. one example is {my.imap.server}remote_pinerc. 💖

🌈 DIAGNOSTICS 🌈

exit status is zero if all goes well, and -1 otherwise. that's it. no drama, just numbers. ✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Rpdump(1) — go read her too, they're a duo. 🫶

Copyright 1989-2007 by the University of Washington.

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

and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this was rpload from section 1, source version $Date: 2005/01/14 20:40:14 $ under the copyright of the University of Washington, 1989-2007 — so yeah, a lil vintage, a lil legendary, still slaying. 🦋✨🎀