.PP
If no formatting string is found,
.B mhstore
-will check to see
-if the content is application/octet-stream with parameter
-\*(lqtype=tar\*(rq. If so,
-.B mhstore
-will choose an appropriate
-filename. If the content is not application/octet-stream, then
-.B mhstore
will check to see if the content is a message. If
so,
.B mhstore
can not
locate every partial necessary to reassemble the message, it will
not store anything.
-RE
-.PP
-By using the
-.B \-auto
-switch,
-.B mhstore
-will automatically do the extraction for you:
-.PP
-.RS 5
-.nf
-% mhlist 5-8
- msg part type/subtype size description
- 5 message/partial 47K part 1 of 4
- 6 message/partial 47K part 2 of 4
- 7 message/partial 47K part 3 of 4
- 8 message/partial 18K part 4 of 4
-% mhstore 5-8
-reassembling partials 5,6,7,8 to folder inbox as message 9
-% mhlist 9
- msg part type/subtype size description
- 9 application/octet-stream 118K
- (extract with uncompress | tar xvpf -)
- type=tar
- conversions=compress
-% mhstore -auto 9
--- tar listing appears here as files are extracted
-.fi
.RE
-.PP
-As the second
-.B tar
-listing is generated, the files are extracted.
-A prudent user will never put
-.B \-auto
-in the profile.
-The correct procedure is to first use
-.B mhlist
-to find out what will be extracted. Then
-.B mhstore
-can be invoked with
-.B \-auto
-to perform the extraction.
.SS "External Access"
For contents of type message/external-body,
\fImhstore\fR supports these access-types: