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Re: email client for only reading email from mbox
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right . ho |
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Re: email client for only reading email from mbox |
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Fri, 28 Nov 2014 05:14:26 -0800 (PST) |
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On Friday, November 28, 2014 3:59:17 PM UTC+5:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Nicolas Richard <>
> > Cc: ,
> > Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 10:53:32 +0100
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii <> writes:
> > >> From:
> > >> It opened the 600MB file as a text file, not as a list of emails, along
> > >> with ^M for each line. Did you mean this?
> > >
> > > No, of course not. Make the file be in Unix EOL format first, I think
> > > that's your problem. You can do this in Emacs, like this:
> > >
> > > M-x find-file-literally RET file-name RET
> > > C-x RET f unix RET
> > > C-x C-s
> > >
> > > Then kill the buffer and repeat the "C-u M-x rmail" command above.
> > >
> > > If that doesn't work, either, perhaps your mbox is not in the mbox
> > > format understood by Rmail (you should have error messages in that
> > > case).
> >
> > Since there is a requirement that the file should not be modified
>
> Can it be copied, then?
>
> Anyway, I suspect that the original mbox file did indeed use Unix
> EOLs, and the fact that this one doesn't is simply an artifact of the
> program used to generate it on Windows. Mbox files always use Unix
> EOLs.
>
> > maybe C-x RET c undecided-dos RET followed by C-u M-x rmail would do
> > it
>
> No, it won't. Rmail requires the mbox file in Unix EOL format.
I can copy the files - hopefully run a windows equivalent of cron for this.
After I converted to UNIX EOLs, it works - but it shows exactly 255 messages in
a file with about 3000 messages. Am I missing some obvious setting to see all
messages?
- email client for only reading email from mbox, right . ho, 2014/11/27
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- Re: email client for only reading email from mbox, right . ho, 2014/11/28
- Re: email client for only reading email from mbox, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/28
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