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MINTRO(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual MINTRO(7)
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MBLAZE(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual MBLAZE(7)
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NAME
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mintro – Santoku introduction
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mblaze – introduction to mblaze
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DESCRIPTION
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The Santoku message system is a set of Unix utilities to deal with mail
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The mblaze message system is a set of Unix utilities to deal with mail
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kept in Maildir folders.
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Its design is roughly inspired by MH, the RAND Message Handling System,
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but its is a complete implementation from scratch.
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Santoku consists of a set of Unix tools that each do one job:
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mblaze consists of a set of Unix tools that each do one job:
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maddr(1) to extract addresses from mail
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mcomp(1) to write and send mail
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mdeliver(1) to deliver messages or import mailboxes
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mthread(1) to arrange mail into discussions
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PRINCIPLES
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Santoku is a classic command line MUA with no features related to
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mblaze is a classic command line MUA with no features related to
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receiving and transferring mail. You are expected to fetch your mail
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using offlineimap(1), fdm(1), procmail(1), getmail(1) or similar and send
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it using sendmail(8), as provided by OpenSMTPD, Postfix, msmtp(1), dma(8)
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or similar. Santoku expects your mail to reside in Maildir folders.
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or similar. mblaze expects your mail to reside in Maildir folders.
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Santoku operates directly on Maildir and doesn't use caches or database.
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mblaze operates directly on Maildir and doesn't use caches or database.
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There is no setup needed for many uses. All tools have been written with
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performance in mind. Enumeration of all mails in a Maildir is avoided
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unless necessary, and then optimized to use few syscalls. Parsing mail
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wasteful), but whole messages are assumed to fit into RAM easily (at a
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time).
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Santoku has been written from scratch and tested on a big pile of
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personal mail, but is not actually 100% RFC conforming (which is neither
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worth it nor desirable). There may be issues with very old,
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nonconforming, messages.
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mblaze has been written from scratch and tested on a big pile of personal
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mail, but is not actually 100% RFC conforming (which is neither worth it
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nor desirable). There may be issues with very old, nonconforming,
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messages.
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Santoku is written in portable C, using only POSIX functions (apart from
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a tiny Linux-only optimization), and has no external dependencies. It
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mblaze is written in portable C, using only POSIX functions (apart from a
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tiny Linux-only optimization), and has no external dependencies. It
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supports MIME and more than 7-bit messages (everything the host iconv(3)
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can decode). It assumes you work in a UTF-8 environment. Santoku works
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can decode). It assumes you work in a UTF-8 environment. mblaze works
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well together with other Unix mail tools such as offlineimap(1),
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mairix(1), or mu(1).
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EXAMPLES
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Santoku tools are designed to be composed together into a pipe. It is
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mblaze tools are designed to be composed together into a pipe. It is
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suitable for interactive use and for scripting. It integrates well into
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a Unix workflow.
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As usual with pipes, the sky is the limit.
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CONCEPTS
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Santoku deals with messages (which are files), folders (which are Maildir
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mblaze deals with messages (which are files), folders (which are Maildir
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folders), sequences (which are newline-separated lists of messages,
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possibly persisted on disk in ~/.santoku/seq), and the current message
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(kept as a symlink in ~/.santoku/cur).
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Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>
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LICENSE
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Santoku is in the public domain.
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mblaze is in the public domain.
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To the extent possible under law, the creator of this work has waived all
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copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.
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Christian Neukirchen
8 years ago