showpartial(1M)

showpartial -- display the body of a mail message included by reference

Synopsis

showpartial filename id partnum totalnum

Description

The showpartial program uses the type message/partial to identify the body of a MIME-format message and attempts to fetch each of the pieces for later use. When showpartial is called on the last piece, it will put the pieces together and call metamail to display the full message. It is intended to be called by metamail via a mailcap entry modeled after the following:

   message/partial; showpartial %s %{id} %{partnum} %{totalnum}

The parts are temporarily saved on /tmp, which can be a problem, since /tmp can fill up before the remaining parts are fetched. When the message is finally displayed, via metamail, the parts are all discarded, and the user is asked whether or not to delete the file containing the entire message.

References

metamail(1)

Notices

Author is Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Bell Communications Research, Inc. See copyright page for further information.