Bill Houle wrote:
> At 05:37 PM 5/28/98 -0700, Jack Killpatrick wrote:
> >
> >He recommended that I download the file and read the mail
> locally, but I'm
> >not sure how to do that. I want to run the email through an email client
> >that will do filtering for me, not read it from raw text. Any
> ideas here? My
> >client is using Win 95 and has access to Outlook, Eudora Pro 3
> or Netscape
> >mail.
>
> I've never thrown 10,000 at it, but Eudora 3.0/4.0 has given me
> no problems
> with up to 4,000.
I'm feelin kinda dumb here. How exactly do you get Eudora to read the big
single file that contains all the email (assuming the complete mailfile is
downloaded to a local machine)? Let's say it's downloaded to a typical Win
95 box with no server software of any kind on it.
> You can take a server-side approach and break the mbox into
> chunks, copying
> each chunk back to the system mailbox, reading, copy, read, etc. (Break
> each chunk at a message delimeter [From_], of course.) 'vi' is the
> sledgehammer approach, and it's even easier if you have access to
> something
> like the Perl mailtools.
Sledgehammer is right. With this 28 meg file, I'd rather use it on my foot .
;)
Thanks,
Jack
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