---
name: "topica2mail"
section: "1p"
platform: "linux"
package: "libwww-topica-perl"
version: "0.6-5"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/topica2mail"
---

# topica2mail(1p)

convert a Topica mailing list into a mail box

## NAME

topica2mail - convert a Topica mailing list into a mail box

## USAGE

```
    topica2mail <list-id> <mailbox> [login] [password] [ -d ] [ -l ] [ -s <start> ] [ -e <end> ]
```

## OPTIONS

### list-id

The name of the list

### mailbox

The mailbox you want to deliver the mail into.  Will automatically prepend the year and the month so

```
    foo
```

will turn into

```
    foo-2004-10
```

etc etc

### login

Your login email address.

If you don't pass in your login and password you may not be able to read some lists.

### password

Your password

If you don't pass in your login and password you may not be able to read some lists.

### -d

Debug - print out debug messages where appropriate

### -l

Local - use the local test files (for testing, obviously)

### -s \<start\>

Which mail offset to start from

### -e \<end\>

Which mail offset to end on

## AUTHOR

Simon Wistow \<simon@thegestalt.org\>

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c), 2004 - Simon Wistow

Distributed under the same terms as Perl itself