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MBoxTidy -- 0.00 14Mar97 -- (C) Copyright Nick Craig-Wood 1997
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This is for removing excess baggage from ANT Mailbox files.
If you load a mailbox file into !Edit you will see that in front of every
message is a great pile of headers with lots of meaningless information in.
This is particularly noticeable in the ant-chat mailing list where typically
there are more headers that actual message text.
What this program does it remove the extraneous headers and create a new
mailbox file. In the case of my archive of the ant-chat list this made it
nearly 50% smaller!
This doesn't affect Marcel at all, and if you weren't in the habit of
looking at the headers of e-mails you won't notice either.
How to use the program
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Firstly find your mail box files. This will depend on exactly how you
installed the ANT Suite but you should find them in a Mail directory. They
appear on the desktop as yellow icons with a picture of an envelope on them.
Run the !MBoxTidy program. SHIFT-Drag the mailbox files from the Filer
window into MBoxTidy's window. You may need to press Enter after doing this
if you are using !Zap rather than !Edit.
This will tidy your mailbox. Your old mailbox will be left intact, but
renamed. You can delete this once you are confident that the tidied mailbox
has all of your old mail in.
Example
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Here is an example run of the program
Welcome to MBoxTidy
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This is for removing excess baggage from ANT mailbox files
Enter the file name of the mailbox you wish to tidy or Enter to end.
(You may SHIFT-Drag the mailbox to this window)
Mailbox file: ADFS::Ant.$.AntSuite.Users.ant.Mail.ant
Reading headers 9 found
................................
Your old mailbox file has been renamed to
ADFS::Ant.$.AntSuite.Users.ant.Mail.0ant
Your tidied mailbox file is
ADFS::Ant.$.AntSuite.Users.ant.Mail.ant
That saved 2497509 bytes which was 47.0% of the total
Enter the file name of the mailbox you wish to tidy or Enter to end.
(You may SHIFT-Drag the mailbox to this window)
Mailbox file:
Finished - please close the window
Doing that has saved 2.4 MBytes of disc space (once you have deleted 0ant
that is)!
Technical
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MBoxTidy deletes all the headers found in the Headers file within !MBoxTidy.
You can add other headers to this, Organization and X-Organization might be
good candidates. Be careful though!
History
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0.00 -- 14Mar97
* First version.
0.01 -- 21Mar97
* Fixed a bug if you set the CSD and just typed in the name of the mailbox
Future
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I intend to make the program be able to delete binaries in mailboxes too.
Legal
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MBoxTidy is (C) Copyright Nick Craig-Wood 1997.
In no circumstances will Nick Craig-Wood be liable for any damage, loss of
profits, goodwill or for any indirect or consequential loss arising out of
the use of this Software, or inability to use this Software, even if Nick
Craig-Wood has been advised of the possibility of such loss.
To sum up - if MBoxTidy deletes your e-mail, wipes your hard disc and kills
your pet gryphon then you are on your own. Having said that it is unlikely
to since it never deletes the original mailbox.
Contacts
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Send any bug reports to me
Nick Craig-Wood
ncw@axis.demon.co.uk
nick@craig-wood.com
See also
http://www.axis.demon.co.uk/software.html