
NAME
	SplitMbox

SYNOPSIS
	SplitMbox [-c] outTemplate bytesPerFile inTemplate [outstart# [instart#]]

DESCRIPTION
	SplitMbox is a manual utility useful for those people (like me)
	who archive all their email.  I archive my email by having an
	Alias append mail to my user name, dillon, to a file called
	'mbox', in addition to sticking it in my 'dillon' mail box.

	I then set up dmail such that it does not try to transfer
	read items into the mbox (because the mail has already been
	stuck there by the alias).  I also set the dmail 'archive'
	variable so any mail I send out is also archived to the same
	mbox.

	What generally happens is that your MBOX file slowly grows
	larger and larger.  At some point, so dmail can access it
	reasonably fast, you rename it and start a new mbox.  Eventually
	you end up with something that might look like this:

	    mbox.001	    423433
	    mbox.002	    253933
	    mbox.003	    983943

	SplitMbox will take a sequence of files starting with
	<inTemplate>.001 and break them up on item boundries
	to output files starting with <outTemplate>.001 ... for
	example,

	    SplitMbox tmp:out 200000 mbox

	SplitMbox will take the files mbox.001, mbox.002, and mbox.003
	(it goes on until it can find no more files), and outputs
	tmp:out.001, tmp:out.002, tmp:out.003, tmp:out.004, etc....
	where the tmp:out#? files are on the order of 200KBytes each,
	allowing for easy compression and storage to floppy.

	You can specify additional arguments to set the starting number
	for the input template (default is 1) and starting number for
	the output template (default is 1).

	Additionally, if you give the -c option SPLITMBOX will automatically
	run COMPRESS on every output file closed out, leaving the last one
	(that didn't reach the byte limit) uncompressed.  You can then
	copy the archived files to floppy for permanent storage.

