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INCM

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
mbox
maildir

NAME

incm - Incorporating new mails for Mew

SYNOPSIS

incm [ options ]

DESCRIPTION

The incm utility incorporates new mails from the mbox or the maildir to Mew’s inbox folder.

The options are as follows:

	-a		Retrieve all mails from maildir/{cur,new} for maildir.
	-b		Backup mails. mbox: No truncate mbox file. maildir: To maildir/cur directory.
	-c		Use the Content-Length: field, instead of the "From " line, as a mail separator for mbox.
	-d path		Path to mbox/maildir. If path is a file, mbox is assumed. If path is a directory, maildir is assumed.
	-m path		The same as the -d option.
	-s		Read one mail from stdin instead of mbox/maildir.

-i inboxdir

A path to the inbox directory.

	-u		Don’t touch ".mew-mtime".
	-f		Preserve Unix From (Envelope Sender) line in mbox case.
	-p mode		Specify file mode that creates in mbox case.
	-o		Use the suffix when creating messages.

-x suffix

Use this suffix .

	-h		Display this help message.
	-v		Display the version.

mbox

For mbox, the mail separator is "From " in the beginning of lines. The incm utility does not convert ">From " to "From " in the beginning of lines in the body. On Solaris, Content-Length: should be used with the -c option to tell the end of mail.

To lock mbox, a lock file("<user>.lock"), flock() or lockf(), and open(O_EXLOCK) are used.

maildir

For maildir, no lock and no separator are necessary.

Consider the following situation:
cur/{1,2}
new/{3,4}

Executing incm without the options results in:
cur/{1,2}
new/{}
to inbox: {3,4}

Executing incm with the -a option results in:
cur/{}
new/{}
to inbox: {1,2,3,4}

Executing incm with the -b option results in:
cur/{1,2,3,4}
new/{}
to inbox: {3,4}

Executing incm with the -a option and the -b option results in:
cur/{1,2,3,4}
new/{}
to inbox: {1,2,3,4}
So, if both options are specified, messages are retrieved multiple times.