4 .TH BURST %manext1% "%nmhdate%" MH.6.8 [%nmhversion%]
6 burst \- explode digests into messages
13 .RB [ \-verbose " | " \-noverbose ]
19 considers the specified messages in the named folder to be
20 Internet digests, and explodes them in that folder.
22 The messages contained within the digest are placed at the end of the folder.
23 The digest is preserved.
24 No other messages are tampered with in any way.
30 to tell the user the general
31 actions that it is taking to explode the digest.
35 works equally well on forwarded messages
36 and blind\-carbon\-copies as on Internet digests, provided that they
37 use RFC 934 message encapsulation.
39 To extract messages encapsulated with MIME, use
45 .ta \w'%etcdir%/ExtraBigFileName 'u
46 ^$HOME/.mmh/profile~^The user profile
49 .SH "PROFILE COMPONENTS"
53 .ta \w'ExtraBigProfileName 'u
54 ^Path:~^To determine the user's mail storage
55 ^Current\-Folder:~^To find the default current folder
56 ^Msg\-Protect:~^To set mode when creating a new message
61 .I "Proposed Standard for Message Encapsulation"
66 .RB ` +folder "' defaults to the current folder"
67 .RB ` msgs "' defaults to cur"
72 If a folder is given, it will become the current folder.
73 The first message extracted from the
74 first digest burst becomes the current message.
79 program enforces a limit on the number of messages which
82 from a single message. This number is on the order
83 of 1000 messages. There is usually no limit on the number of messages
84 which may reside in the folder after the
89 uses a sophisticated algorithm to determine where
90 one encapsulated message ends and another begins, not all digestifying
91 programs use an encapsulation algorithm. In degenerate cases, this
94 finding an encapsulation boundary
95 prematurely and splitting a single encapsulated message into two or
96 more messages. These erroneous digestifying programs should be fixed.
98 Any text which appears after the last encapsulated message
99 is not placed in a separate message by
102 digestified messages, this text is usually an `End of digest'