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splitmail(1)           DragonFly General Commands Manual          splitmail(1)


NAME

       splitmail - Split a large mail message into MIME-compliant partial
       messages


SYNOPSIS

       splitmail  [-d] [-v] [-s splitsize] [-p prefix] [-i  id-suffix] [file-
       name]


DESCRIPTION

       The splitmail program will take an email message and break it up into
       smaller pieces using the "message/partial" type defined by MIME, the
       proposed Internet standard for multimedia mail formats.

       By default it will take the message either from standard input or the
       named file, and will produce a set of partial message files with names
       like "/tmp/split.1" for the first part, and so on.  The prefix
       "/tmp/split." can be overridden using the "-p" option.

       If the -d option is specified, the mail will actually be delivered.  If
       -v is specified, the verbose flag will be passed to sendmail.

       The -i option can be used to make splitmail generate the pieces with
       similar (but not identical) message-id fields, in a format which allows
       them to be easily correlated with one another and which end with the
       suffix provided on the command line after -i.

       The default chunk size for spliting messages is 250000 at most sites,
       though this is also a compile-time option.  This can be overriden with
       the -s switch, or with the environment variable SPLITSIZE.

       Messages smaller than the chunk size will not be turned into partial
       messages, but will be written to a single file or delivered as a single
       message.


ENVIRONMENT

       SPLITSIZE overrides the default chunk size.  Setting SPLITSIZE to, say,
       4000000 will effectively ensure that your messages are unlikely ever to
       be split, but it may cause them to be rejected by some mail transport
       software.


SEE ALSO

       mailto(1), metamail(1)


BUGS

       If the size of the input is just on the fencepost, and if it is coming
       from a file rather than standard input, splitmail will sometimes
       estimate the number of parts wrong and will have to write out an extra
       part.  This is harmless but annoying.  It is especially annoying if the
       estimate was 2 but the real number was 1.


COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1992 Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore)

       Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this material for any
       purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
       copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies, and
       that the name of Bellcore not be used in advertising or publicity
       pertaining to this material without the specific, prior written
       permission of an authorized representative of Bellcore.  BELLCORE MAKES
       NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR SUITABILITY OF THIS MATERIAL
       FOR ANY PURPOSE.  IT IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
       IMPLIED WARRANTIES.


AUTHOR

       Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Bellcore

                                   Release 1                      splitmail(1)

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