Mutt And Downloaded Archive Files

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Thu Aug 11 18:17:37 EDT 2005


Thanks, Greg. Regretably, it didn't work, though.

Gregory Nowak writes:
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> I don't know if this would help you. However, back when the full raw
> mbox archive was still available, mutt wouldn't read that either. My
> solution was to open the mbox file with mail(1), save it, quit mail,
> and then mutt would open it just fine.
> 
> I don't know why this worked, though I suspect that mail added a From
> line to every message in the box, but I don't know for sure. Hth.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 01:19:18PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > I must be doing something wrong, but I can't quite figure it out so I'm
> > writing here looking for advice.
> > 
> > I'm downloading gunzip'd files of email messages from the archive site.
> > I unzip them and use cat >> to create a single mbox file.
> > 
> > At least I think this process creates an mbox file. But mutt is unable
> > to read the result. So, I'm obviously missing something.
> > 
> > How can I take these month by month .gz files into a single mbox file
> > that Mutt can read?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > 
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Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.202.494.7040
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com
Bringing the Owasys 22C screenless cell phone to the U.S. and Canada. Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.

Chair, Accessibility Workgroup		Free Standards Group (FSG)
janina at freestandards.org		http://a11y.org




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