>This is very timely. I'd like to expand (don't want to use that other >"ex" word) some email archive files that are open and available to the >public. These files are from some public mailing lists, they are text >files (generally one file per month's worth of traffic), and they often >are named "<something>.mail". The purpose is to extract and organize >messages having certain specific threads/subjects. > >It would be great if I could open/import/convert such a file and use an >email client to see it as a folder or mailbox of individual messages. >Saving a file of a useful subset of extracted messages would be nice, too. > >Any suggestions? Maybe it's as simple as changing the file extension >and using the right client?
Good chance that these are in "mailbox" format. You can Google that and examine the files to see if they look like that. Unfortunately there are different flavors of mailbox format and different programs handle different flavors. Thunderbird and Eudora should handle some of them. You can find converter scripts on the Web. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
