Re: FN-FORUM: Reading mbox files in Windows?

date posted 17th January 2005 17:48

On 17 Jan 2005 13:15:43 -0000, sparkes [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Elizabeth Varley wrote:
> > I need to be able to access some mbox files (created by a mac) via my
> > windows PC.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions of how I can read the messages in these files?
>
> if you have perl installed mb2md.pl will convert from mbox format to
> maildir format. I can tell it does what it says on the tin because I am
> sti moving some messages to my imap server and this was a very quick and
> dirty way to do it.
>
> you can read the messages in an mbox file by opening it in a text
> editor. like most fileformats coming from unix it's a text file.


Thanks. I actually managed to get Eudora to open the files (found a
guide on their site advising to change the file extension to mbx in
trad windows/DOS format), however, the headers of the messages are
showing up fine, but there's no body text.

Not sre if it's my inexperience with Eudora that means I can't work
out how to change that, corruption of the files, or something else. So
if anyone has any suggestions on that, would much appreciate hearing
them.

Any Eudora exprts out there?


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