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NAME

       mailinspect - sort an mbox by category and pipe emails to a command.

SYNOPSIS

       mailinspect  [-zjiI]  -c category FILE [-gG regex]...  [-s command] [-p
              style] [-o scoring]

       mailinspect -V

DESCRIPTION

       mailinspect reads the single mbox folder named FILE  and  sorts  it  in
       order  of  similarity  to the category, which must have been created by
       dbacl(1).  It can be used as a command line tool or interactively, when
       given the -I switch.

       When used as a command line tool, mailinspect prints the sorted list of
       emails on STDOUT. Each line consists of a seek position for  the  given
       email  within  FILE,  followed by the score and a description string in
       one of several styles chosen via the -p option.

       When supplying a command string in  conjunction  with  the  -s  option,
       mailinspect spawns a shell and executes command for every email in FILE
       (possibly selected via the -g or-G options), in the sorted order.  This
       is  similar  to the formail(1) functionality, except the latter doesn’t
       order the emails.

       In interactive mode, all the command line  functionality  is  available
       via  keypresses. The sorted list of emails is displayed in a scrollable
       format, and can be viewed, searched, tagged, resorted and sent to shell
       commands.  Predefined  shell  commands  can be associated with function
       keys. See the usage section below.

       The sorting heuristics are currently (and may always be)  experimental,
       so  there  is  no  guarantee  that  the orderings are particularly well
       suited for anything.

EXIT STATUS

       mailinspect returns 1 on success, 0 if some error occurred.

OPTIONS

       -c     Use category to compute the scores and sort  the  emails,  which
              should be the file name of a dbacl(1) category.

       -g     Only  emails  matching  the regular expression regex are sorted.
              All other emails are ignored. When several -g and -G options are
              present  on  the  command  line, earlier regular expressions are
              overridden by later ones where applicable.

       -i     Force internationalized mode.

       -j     Force regular expression searches to be case sensitive.

       -o     Determines the scoring formula to be used. The parameter scoring
              must  be  an  integer greater than or equal to zero. By default,
              scoring equals zero.

       -p     Prints the email index in the given style. The  parameter  style
              must  be  an  integer greater than or equal to zero. By default,
              style equals zero.

       -s     For each email in the list, execute the shell command, with  the
              email body on STDIN. Emails are processed in sorted order.

       -z     Reverse  sort  order.  Normally,  emails  are sorted in order of
              closest to furthest relative to category, but in this case,  the
              opposite is true.

       -I     Interactive  mode. Instead of printing the sorted list of emails
              on STDOUT, emails are displayed and  can  be  scrolled,  viewed,
              searched and piped interactively at the terminal.

       -G     Only  emails  not  matching  the  regular  expression  regex are
              sorted. Opposite of -g switch.

       -V     Print the program version number and exit.

USAGE

       mailinspect needs to read a prelearned category before it can sort  the
       emails in FILE. See dbacl(1).

       Suppose  you  have  two  mail  folders  named  good.mbox  and  bad.mbox
       respectively. You can  create  appropriate  categories  by  typing  the
       commands

       % dbacl -l good good.mbox -T email
       % dbacl -l bad bad.mbox -T email

       Next,  you  can  type  the  following command to view interactively the
       bad.mbox file with the emails whose score is closest  to  the  category
       good listed first:

       % mailinspect -I -c good bad.mbox

       Alternatively,  you  might be interested only in the five emails in the
       folder bad.mbox whose score marks them as the furthest  away  from  the
       category  bad, completely independently from any other category such as
       good (ie you want outliers in the scoring sense).

       % mailinspect -z -c bad bad.mbox | head -5

       In interactive mode, the following keys are defined:

       o      toggles another scoring formula.

       p      toggles another display style.

       q      exits mailinspect.

       s      sends the currently highlighted email to a shell command.

       S      sends all currently tagged emails to a shell command, in  sorted
              order.  Every email executes the shell command independently.

       t      tags the currently highlighted email.

       T      tags all listed emails.

       v      sends  the currently highlighted email to $PAGER for viewing. If
              the environment variable PAGER is not defined, sends  the  email
              to less(1).

       u      untags the highlighted email.

       U      untags all listed emails.

       z      reverses the sort order of displayed emails.

       /      searches for a regular expression (see regex(7)) anywhere within
              the contents of all listed emails. Hides all emails which  don’t
              match.

       ?      like  /,  but  hides  all  emails which match, keeping all those
              which don’t match.

       As a convenience, the function keys F1-F10 can each be associated  with
       a  shell  command  string.  In this case, typing a function key has the
       same effect as the S key, but the command is already typed and ready to
       be  edited/accepted.   The  function key associations are read from the
       configuration file .mailinspectrc if it exits.

FILES

       $HOME/.mailinspectrc
              mailinspect  reads  the  file  .mailinspectrc   in   the   $HOME
              directory,  if  it  exists.   This  is  a  plain text file which
              contains entries of the form

              # this is a comment
              F2 cat >> interesting.mbox
              F5 mail zarniwoop@megadodo.com

ENVIRONMENT

       DBACL_PATH
              When this variable is set,  its  value  is  prepended  to  every
              category filename which doesn’t start with a ’/’.

SOURCE

       The  source code for the latest version of this program is available at
       the following locations:

       http://www.lbreyer.com/gpl.html
       http://dbacl.sourceforge.net

AUTHOR

       Laird A. Breyer <laird@lbreyer.com>

SEE ALSO

       bayesol(1), dbacl(1), less(1), mailcross(1), regex(7)