mblaze.7: incorporate review changes

pull/89/merge
Larry Hynes 6 years ago committed by Leah Neukirchen
parent a112b0e7a7
commit 62dc7e931b

@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ consists of these Unix utilities that each do one job:
.It Xr maddr 1
extract mail addresses from messages
.It Xr magrep 1
print messages matching a pattern
search messages matching a pattern
.It Xr mbnc 1
bounce messages
.It Xr mcom 1
@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ conveniently read messages in
.It Xr mlist 1
list and filter messages
.It Xr mmime 1
encode MIME messages
create MIME messages
.It Xr mmkdir 1
create new maildir folders
.It Xr mpick 1
@ -100,9 +100,7 @@ Parsing message metadata is optimized to limit I/O requests.
Initial operations on a large maildir may feel slow, but as soon as they
are in the file system cache, everything is blazingly fast.
The utilities are written to be memory efficient
.Po
i.e. not wasteful
.Pc ,
.Pq i.e. not wasteful ,
but whole messages are assumed to fit into RAM easily
.Po
one at a time
@ -143,14 +141,14 @@ and integrate well into a Unix workflow.
.Pp
For example, you could decide you want to look at all unseen messages in your
INBOX, oldest first.
.Dl mlist -s ~/maildir/INBOX | msort -d | mscan
.Dl mlist -s ~/Maildir/INBOX | msort -d | mscan
.Pp
To operate on a set of messages in multiple steps,
you can save it as a sequence,
e.g. add a call to
.Ql mseq -S
to the above command:
.Dl mlist -s ~/maildir/INBOX | msort -d | mseq -S | mscan
.Dl mlist -s ~/Maildir/INBOX | msort -d | mseq -S | mscan
.Pp
Now mscan will show message numbers and you could look at the first
five messages at once, for example:
@ -165,10 +163,10 @@ to
.Pc
all new messages in all folders,
thread it and look at it interactively:
.Dl mdirs ~/maildir | xargs minc | mthread | mless
.Dl mdirs ~/Maildir | xargs minc | mthread | mless
.Pp
Or you could list the attachments of the 20 largest messages in your INBOX:
.Dl mlist ~/maildir/INBOX | msort -S | tail -20 | mshow -t
.Dl mlist ~/Maildir/INBOX | msort -S | tail -20 | mshow -t
.Pp
Or apply the patches from the current message:
.Dl mshow -O . '*.diff' | patch

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