If they're files in true mbox format, you should be able to point your favorite mbox client app at the folder name and proceed from there as you do with any mailbox. I just collected a selection of emails for an unrelated project in W3C from the past few years and forwarded the emails as a ingle mbox file to my colleague. Best, Janina Linux for blind general discussion writes: > Hi All: I did ask in comp.mail.pine about this, with no responses. I had > lost quite a lot of text articles which I had been collecting all the way > back to when I first got on CompuServe in 1994. A great place of finding > News related wire stories were in Clari.net Usenet groups. Well, Giganews > still has postings mostly back to 2004, some from 2003. However, we found an > archive of articles from the 90s which are in .mbox format. I wanted to > simulate looking at these stories as single articles the way they came off > the news server, but these .mbox files are sometime 19thousand lines or > 13MB. Sure there is Linux software to split these, but they are not > maintaining their orriginal article dates. I think the package is git > mail-split. > So I created a new folder in Alpine, gave it a path where these articles are > housed, but not only is Alpine still seeing the large .mbox file, but Alpine > is noticing these as read only sub-directories, which in reality they are > individual names of Clari news groups. > Can any1 please suggest how better to work with these? I would want to > aggregate groups of news stories to year related directories, then nuke > them-and-go on to the next group as you would in an actual news reader. I > tried naming these files differently thinking I can fool Alpine in to > rendering them as I was hoping. Thanks so much in advance for any-and-all > suggestions. There is another more complicate Debian package, mb2mdir but > it just gives these files strings of numbers-and-letters. > Chime > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list