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Jason Shein jason-xgs8i/e9EeWTtA8H5PvdGCwD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Mar 28 17:30:23 UTC 2005


On March 28, 2005 05:15 pm, William O'Higgins wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 11:43:14AM -0500, Anton Markov wrote (when it
>
> was suggested that Mutt's "bounce" feature may be of use):
> >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).
>
> One way to check is to attempt to open that file with Mutt.  Odds are
> it's an mbox file.

http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.5/faq/mail-news.html#export

mbox format is used.

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