mailing list/mail web-archive software

[Peter]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Anton Markov wrote:

> 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).

That's the unix mailbox format. The file stored under 
/var/spool/mail/$USER has the same format if you are not using a MTA 
with maildir option.

To split such a file into individual messages, try formail (from the 
procmail package). Web mail archives can be made from the messages using 
a variety of tools, like Hypermail (search the web for more).

Peter
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