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It imports either a single message, or a batch of messages
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in mbox format. </para>
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<para>It is important to note that lurker messages
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in order and may miss new messages
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delivered during the import. For this reason, you should setup lurker
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to receive new mail before importing old mail. Only
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use lurker\-index on inactive mail folders!</para>
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<para>By default, lurker\-index reads from standard input in mbox
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format, delimited by 'From <addr> <date>' lines.
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Be aware that if the mbox is not delimited correctly between
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messages it will be interpretted as a single message with an
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invalid date. To read other sources, see the '\-i' option.
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If input is a single email, use '\-m'.</para>
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<term><option>\-b count</option></term>
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<para>Import a batch of messages; flush every count messages. A
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good value for count is 5. The larger this parameter, the more CPU
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power lurker needs during import, but the less disk seeks.</para>
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<para>It is important to note that lurker reads files from a
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maildirs and mailboxes in order and may miss new messages
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delivered during the import. For this reason, setting up lurker to
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be invoked properly when new mail is delivered is essential. Only
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use lurker\-index with '\-b' when importing from non-active mail
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<para>By default, lurker\-index reads from standard input in mbox
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format, delimited by 'From <addr> <date>' lines.
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Be aware that if the mbox is not delimited correctly between
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messages it will be interpretted as a single message with an
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invalid date. To read other sources, see the '\-i' option.</para>
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<para>Import a single message. In this mode lurker will never
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interpret 'From ' lines as message delimiters. When being fed
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newly delivered mail, this is the preferred mode of operation.
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this mode as lurker does it's own escaping which is generally
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this mode, as lurker does it's own escaping which is generally
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<para>This option should be used when lurker\-index is invoked by