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[Glenn Steen]

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On 06/09/05, William Schwartz <schwartzw at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using MailScanner to archive all email for a particular domain in both
> maildir and mbox formats.
>  
>  In my archive.rules I have:
>  FromOrTo: *@domain.com
> /data/mail_archive/domain.com/archive.mbx
>  FromOrTo: *@domain.com /data/mail_archive/domain.com/
>  
>  
>  Everything appears to work great.  I get daily directoies in
> /data/mail_archive/domain.com/ that contain the maildir files and I have a
> cron job that rotates the mbx file weekly.
>  
>  My question is what's the best way to read these?  I've played with
> Thunderbird and Outlook express and I don't see a good way to import the
> archive.  Is there another application out there that would allow for easy
> viewing of the archives? (both formats).
>  
>  Thanks,
>  Bill
>  
"mail -f <mbox-file>" has always been a safe thing to use (and it's
easy to use too:-).
I used to use pine for a rather long time... Or one could use Sylpheed
or even kmail...
Trick is to either work on a copy or make very sure that the MUA don't
mess up the file(s).

-- 
-- Glenn
email: glenn < dot > steen < at > gmail < dot > com
work: glenn < dot > steen < at > ap1 < dot > se

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