splitmail++(1)

💌 splitmail++(1) — General Commands Manual 🎀

okay bestie, listen up, we're doing the splitmail++ page and it's actually so useful, i promise 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

splitmail++ — splitting up mailbox files before you go indexing them, periodt 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

splitmail++ -pprefix [ file ]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so like. splitmail++ is this little utility that takes a mailbox file — or, if you don't hand it a file, standard input, she's flexible like that — and it's comprised of multiple messages, right? and it splits that whole thing up into multiple files, one per individual message. why? so you can index them with index++(1), obviously. it's giving prep work, it's giving organization, it's giving main character energy 👑

the generated files get 5-digit increasing numbers appended to a common prefix. yes, common. yes, prefix. we'll get there.

and here's the cute lil bonus: if your mailbox file has some non-mail header sitting at the top, that doesn't just get yeeted into the void — it gets dumped to a file with the same prefix and _junk_header as the suffix. nothing gets lost, we don't do that here 🫶

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⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

• -pprefix — specifies the common prefix. that's the whole option. that's it. she's simple, she's iconic, she's the only one 💅

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

run this:

splitmail++ -p msg sent_messages

and what happens? the mailbox sent_messages gets split into files named msg.00001, msg.00002, and so on and so on, forever and ever, amen ✨

and any non-mail header? gets dumped to a file named msg_junk_header. cute, right? 🎀

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👑 NOTE 👑

this utility hasn't been exhaustively tested. so like... be aware. ngl. fr fr. 🙈

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• index++(1) — the whole reason we're here bestie 🔥

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🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Paul J. Lucas <pauljlucas@mac.com> — thank you king 💖

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and that's the page!! SWISH++ energy, dated December 13, 2000, version splitmail++(1) — she's vintage, she's still slaying, we love her 💅✨