splitmail++

splitmail++ -pprefix [ file ]

splitmail++ is a utility to split a mailbox file (or standard input) comprised of multiple messages into multiple files of individual messages to facilitate indexing with index++(1). The generated files have 5-digit increasing numbers appended to a common prefix. If the mailbox file has some non-mail header, then this is dumped to a file with the same prefix and _junk_header as the suffix.

-pprefix

Specifies the common prefix.

The command:

splitmail++ -p msg sent_messages

splits the mailbox sent_messages into files named msg.00001, msg.00002, and so on. Any non-mail header gets dumped to a file named msg_junk_header.

This utility hasn't been exhaustively tested.

index++(1).

Paul J. Lucas <pauljlucas@mac.com>