NAME

       burst - explode digests into messages

SYNOPSIS

       burst [+folder] [msgs] [-verbose | -noverbose] [-Version] [-help]

DESCRIPTION

       Burst  considers  the specified messages in the named folder to be Internet digests, and explodes them in
       that folder.

       The messages contained within the digest are placed at the end of the folder.  The digest  is  preserved.
       No other messages are tampered with in any way.

       The  -verbose  switch directs burst to tell the user the general actions that it is taking to explode the
       digest.

       It turns out that burst works equally well on forwarded messages and blind-carbon-copies as  on  Internet
       digests, provided that they use RFC 934 message encapsulation.

       To extract messages encapsulated with MIME, use mhstore(1).

FILES

       $HOME/.mmh/profile         The user profile

PROFILE COMPONENTS

       Path:                To determine the user's mail storage
       Current-Folder:      To find the default current folder
       Msg-Protect:         To set mode when creating a new message

SEE ALSO

       mhstore(1), Proposed Standard for Message Encapsulation (RFC-934)

DEFAULTS

       `+folder' defaults to the current folder
       `msgs' defaults to the current message
       `-noverbose'

CONTEXT

       If  a  folder  is  given,  it will become the current folder.  The first message extracted from the first
       digest burst becomes the current message.

BUGS

       The burst program enforces a limit on the number of messages which may be burst from  a  single  message.
       This  number is on the order of 1000 messages.  There is usually no limit on the number of messages which
       may reside in the folder after the bursting.

       Although burst uses a sophisticated algorithm to  determine  where  one  encapsulated  message  ends  and
       another  begins, not all digestifying programs use an encapsulation algorithm.  In degenerate cases, this
       usually  results  in  burst  finding  an  encapsulation  boundary  prematurely  and  splitting  a  single
       encapsulated message into two or more messages.  These erroneous digestifying programs should be fixed.

       Any  text which appears after the last encapsulated message is not placed in a separate message by burst.
       In the case of digestified messages, this text is usually an `End of digest' string.