Re: .mbox extension question
On Mar 20, 2004, at 10:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do i extract file.mbox? A .mbox file is simply a bunch of email messages appended to one another, but normally you don't need to do anything special with it: your mail reader, or a POP or IMAP server should understand the contents as-is. However, if you want to process each message individually, look at formail, which is part of the mail/procmail port... -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .mbox extension question
On Sunday 21 March 2004 10:53 am, Charles Swiger wrote: On Mar 20, 2004, at 10:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do i extract file.mbox? Perhaps he's looking to salvage the mail in mbox to be exported to outlook/express? -- Best regards, Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .mbox extension question
On Mar 21, 2004, at 11:55 AM, Chris wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 10:53 am, Charles Swiger wrote: On Mar 20, 2004, at 10:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do i extract file.mbox? [ ... ] Perhaps he's looking to salvage the mail in mbox to be exported to outlook/express? I vaguely recall that Outlook/OE had an import Unix mail capability that would accept a .mbox file as-is. If not, I suspect it would be easier to place that file in ~/mbox or whatever, run a popd, and grab the mail via POP... -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .mbox extension question
On Sunday 21 March 2004 11:40 am, Charles Swiger wrote: On Mar 21, 2004, at 11:55 AM, Chris wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 10:53 am, Charles Swiger wrote: On Mar 20, 2004, at 10:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do i extract file.mbox? [ ... ] Perhaps he's looking to salvage the mail in mbox to be exported to outlook/express? I vaguely recall that Outlook/OE had an import Unix mail capability that would accept a .mbox file as-is. If not, I suspect it would be easier to place that file in ~/mbox or whatever, run a popd, and grab the mail via POP... There are utils in the ports (currently escapes me) however, they really don't work all that well. Oh well - it was just a guess anyhow. -- Best regards, Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
