INCM(1)
NAME
incm - Incorporating new mails for Mew
SYNOPSIS
incm [options]
DESCRIPTION
The incm utility incorporates new mails from the mbox or the maildir to
Mew's inbox folder.
The options are as follows:
-a Retrieve all mails from maildir/{cur,new} for maildir.
- -b Backup mails. mbox: No truncate mbox file. maildir: To
- maildir/cur directory.
- -c Use the Content-Length: field, instead of the "From " line, as
- a mail separator for mbox.
- -d path Path to mbox/maildir. If path is a file, mbox is assumed. If
- path is a directory, maildir is assumed.
- -m path The same as the -d option.
- -s Read one mail from stdin instead of mbox/maildir.
- -i inboxdir
- A path to the inbox directory.
- -u Don't touch ".mew-mtime".
- -f Preserve Unix From (Envelope Sender) line in mbox case.
- -p mode Specify file mode that creates in mbox case.
- -o Use the suffix when creating messages.
- -x suffix
- Use this suffix.
- -h Display this help message.
- -v Display the version.
- mbox
- For mbox, the mail separator is "From " in the beginning of lines. The incm utility does not convert ">From " to "From " in the beginning of lines in the body. On Solaris, Content-Length: should be used with the -c option to tell the end of mail.
- To lock mbox, a lock file("<user>.lock"), flock() or lockf(), and open(O_EXLOCK) are used.
- maildir
- For maildir, no lock and no separator are necessary.
- Consider the following situation:
cur/{1,2}
new/{3,4} - Executing incm without the options results in:
- cur/{1,2}
new/{}
to inbox: {3,4} - Executing incm with the -a option results in:
- cur/{}
new/{}
to inbox: {1,2,3,4} - Executing incm with the -b option results in:
- cur/{1,2,3,4}
new/{}
to inbox: {3,4} - Executing incm with the -a option and the -b option results in:
- cur/{1,2,3,4}
new/{}
to inbox: {1,2,3,4} - So, if both options are specified, messages are retrieved multiple times.