---
name: "dl10n-mail"
section: "1p"
platform: "linux"
package: "dl10n"
version: "3.00+nmu1"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dl10n-mail"
---

# dl10n-mail(1p)

## NAME

dl10n-mail -- translator mailing lists (and BTS) robot for status updates

## SYNOPSIS

dl10n-mail \[options\] lang+

## DESCRIPTION

This script can receive mails from the debian-l10n-\<language\> mailing list or read an archivein thembox format. It looks for emails which title follow a specific format indicating what the author intend to translate, or the current status of his work on this translation.

Those informations are saved to a dl10n database which can then be used to build a l10n coordination page or any other useless statistics.

## Command line option parsing

- General options:

  - \-h, --help

    display short help text

  - \-V, --version

    display version and exit

  - \--check-bts

    check the BTS

- Begin point of the crawling:

  - \--msgid=Message-ID

    if not specified, will crawl for new messages.

- ...

  - \--mboxfolder=MBOX\_FOLDER

    ...

- Database to fill:

  - \--sdb=STATUS\_FILE

    use STATUS\_FILE as status file (instead of `$STATUS_FILE`)

## LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

## COPYRIGHT (C)

```
 2003,2004 Tim Dijkstra
 2004 Nicolas Bertolissio
 2004 Martin Quinson
```
