mailing list/mail web-archive software

[Anton Markov]

Taavi Burns wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 20:42:07 -0500, Anton Markov <anton-F0u+EriZ6ihBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
>>Anton Markov wrote:
>>Now there's an idea I haven't considered. The only problem I can see is
>>loosing the From, Date, and other headers. But I suppose that I could
>>forward the message to the group, in which case it would still contain
>>all that information. Or I could fake the From and Date headers somehow.
> 
> 
> mutt has a "bounce" feature ('b' for bounce) that simply remails the message
> with a new destination (but leaves all the other headers unchanged).  As far
> as I can tell it's indistinguishable from the message simply hitting another
> mailserver along the way (a very normal thing).  It perserves all of the headers
> including the date, To:, and From:.
> 
> I don't know if Thunderbird has the same feature, though.  You might look into
> procmail, and/or may have to convert the Thunderbird mailbox into a standard
> mbox/mailbox/maildir format if it's not already in such a format.
> 

Thanks for the tip. Does anyone know which format Thunderbird uses, and 
how I can get it into mutt or some other 'traditional' format? The 
messages all appear to be stored in a single large file, seperated only 
by their own headers. Is that what is called "mbox"? (sorry, I am new to 
this low-level e-mail thing).

Thanks.


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