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## 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)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/inc/1/markdown), [_pack_(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pack/1/markdown)

       _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
       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 **burst**ing.

       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  di‐
       gestifying programs should be fixed.

       Furthermore,  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.   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 correspondents usually place remarks in text prior to the first
       encapsulated message, and this information is not lost.



nmh-1.7.1                                    2013-02-08                                   [BURST(1mh)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/BURST/1mh/markdown)