Windows based reader for saved Unix mail wanted
Ken Wampach
used it for over a year. I do have one minor issue. I have a
saved mail file with about 400 saved messages in it. Obviously I
can FTP it to my Windows PC in Ascii mode which will give me a
file which I can read with Windows based editors. This will give
me some access to the messages, if I need them.
I was wondering whether there are any very low cost (FREE) tools
which can read such a mail file that anyone has used. It would
be nice to have a Windows tool which can display the message
headers, and display/print a selected message. I presume that a
fair number of former Netcom Unix users that have faced this
issue.
I have seen some indications that Eudora Lite might do the job.
Does anyone have any first hand experience? Are there issues
other than it may be overkill, since I don't need it to read and
reply to new mail?
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide.
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Ken Wampach - FirstNameATLastNameDOTorg
David Arnstein
Ken Wampach <NOS...@myisp.com> wrote:
>I was wondering whether there are any very low cost (FREE) tools
>which can read such a mail file that anyone has used. It would
>be nice to have a Windows tool which can display the message
>headers, and display/print a selected message. I presume that a
>fair number of former Netcom Unix users that have faced this
>issue.
The email application bundled with Mozilla can certainly do this, and
I use it as such quite often. Netscape can do it too. Yes, I am
referring to the MSWindows versions of these programs.
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David Arnstein
arnstei...@pobox.com
Howard Siegel
Those would be the easiest ways to be able to read your
old UNIX mailbox.
Less easy, but more UNIXy, would be to get a version of
one of the mail client programs that also has a Windows
version and which have used on Netcom. Pine definitely
has one, as that is what I sometimes use on my Windows
box. I think mutt also has a Windows version. Not sure
about elm or any of the others.
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hsiegel~at~pobox~dot~com <*> Netcom Class of '93, RIP Netcom!
Mark Hittinger
>I was wondering whether there are any very low cost (FREE) tools
>which can read such a mail file that anyone has used. It would
>be nice to have a Windows tool which can display the message
>headers, and display/print a selected message. I presume that a
>fair number of former Netcom Unix users that have faced this
>issue.
Another idea might be to download cygwin (http://x.cygwin.com) and
install some of those packages. There might be something in that
package that would be similar to a shell mail program.
Later
Mark Hittinger
bu...@pu.net
Howard Siegel
> Another idea might be to download cygwin (http://x.cygwin.com) and
> install some of those packages. There might be something in that
> package that would be similar to a shell mail program.
That's somewhat overkill if his regular UNIX e-mail client is
available in a Windows version such as Pine. If not, then you
are right in that he'll have to install cygwin to bring up the
e-mail client. Or just use Mozilla's e-mail client if he already
has Mozilla installed.