Summary

SplitMail -- split messages from system mailbox by matching substrings in Subject: and/or From: lines. Can handle arbitrary sized system mailboxes.

Options:

• --help -- display a usage message and quit
• --name=USER -- read from this user's mailbox
• --file=FILENAME -- read from this file
• --subject=SUBSTRING (may be repeated) Subject: substring to search for
• --from=SUBSTRING (may be repeated) From: substring to search for
• --withfile=FILENAME (optional) file to hold messages matching any of the search criteria
• --withoutfile=FILENAME (optional) file to hold messages matching none of the search criteria
• --verbose (optional) show how each message is checked, +++ indicates a match, --- a mismatch
• --append (optional) append messages to output files instead of overwriting on each run
• --dryrun (optional) turn on verbose mode but don't create output files

Exactly one of --name or --file is required. When --file is used, the default names for the output files start with basename of the named file.

You must have at least one instance of --subject or --from. When the option uses --subject= or --from= then the match is case sensitive. Replacing = with ~ as in --subject~happy results in a case insensitive match.

FILENAME may be /dev/null to suppress output, and defaults to USER.with for --withfile and USER.without for --withoutfile.

This file is part of the (main) package.

basename(s)

getMessage(line, mailFile)

helpMesg()

main(args)

mapFrom(s)

readMessages(mailFileName)

routeMessage(message, file1, file2)

showHeader(f, prefix, h)

showList(f, prefix, aList)

word()

message(from, subject, date, text)

 Internal form for mail message