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BURST(1mh)                                                                                BURST(1mh)

NAME
       burst - explode digests into nmh messages

SYNOPSIS


       burst [-help] [-version] [+folder] [msgs] [-inplace | -noinplace] [-mime | -nomime] [-au‐
            tomime] [-quiet | -noquiet] [-verbose | -noverbose]

DESCRIPTION
       burst  considers  the  specified messages in the named folder to be Internet digests, and ex‐
       plodes them in that folder.

       If -inplace is given, each digest is replaced by its “table of contents” and  the  digest  is
       removed.   burst  then  renumbers the messages which follow the digest, in the folder, making
       room for each of the exploded messages, which are placed immediately after the “table of con‐
       tents”.

       If -noinplace is given, each digest is preserved, no table of contents is produced,  and  the
       exploded  messages are placed at the end of the folder.  Other messages in the folder are not
       affected.

       If -automime is given, burst will try to determine if the message is formatted with MIME  and
       contains  MIME  parts  of type “message/rfc822”.  If it does, it will burst the message using
       MIME formatting rules.  The -mime switch can be used to enforce the use of  MIME  formatting.
       The -nomime switch will force burst to use RFC 934 rules.

       The  -quiet switch directs burst to be silent about reporting messages that are not in digest
       format.

       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 the former were generated by forw or send.

FILES
       $HOME/.mh_profile   The user's profile.

PROFILE COMPONENTS
       Path:               To determine the user's nmh directory.
       Current-Folder:     To find the default current folder.
       Msg-Protect:        To set mode when creating a new message.

SEE ALSO
       inc(1), pack(1)

       Proposed Standard for Message Encapsulation (RFC 934)

DEFAULTS
       +folder             The current folder.
       msgs                The current message.
       -noinplace
       -automime
       -noquiet
       -noverbose

CONTEXT
       If a folder is given, it will become the current folder.  If  -inplace  is  given,  then  the
       first message burst becomes the current message.  This leaves the context ready for a show of
       the  table  of contents of the digest, and a next to see the first message of the digest.  If
       -noinplace is given, then the first message extracted from the first digest burst becomes the
       current message.  This leaves the context in a similar, but not identical, state to the  con‐
       text achieved when using -inplace.

BUGS
       The burst program enforces a limit of approximately 1,000 on the number of messages which may
       be burst from a single message. 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 digest creators use an encapsulation algorithm.  In degener‐
       ate cases, this usually results in burst finding an encapsulation  boundary  prematurely  and
       splitting  a  single  encapsulated message into two or more messages.  These erroneous digest
       creators should be fixed.

       Furthermore, any text which appears after the last encapsulated message is not  placed  in  a
       separate  message  by burst.  This text is usually an “End of digest” string.  As a result of
       this possibly unfriendly behavior on the part of burst, note that when the -inplace option is
       used, this trailing information is lost.  In practice, this is not a problem since correspon‐
       dents usually place remarks in text prior to the first encapsulated message, and this  infor‐
       mation is not lost.

nmh-1.8                                      2013-02-08                                   BURST(1mh)