Reading pipermail archives with mutt

[Gregor Hoffleit]

Somehow mutt is not able to read the mail archives downloadable from
Python.org's SIG pages. The simple /bin/mail will grok them correctly
and list the contents, but mutt doesn't find any mails.

IIRC, that's true not only for Python.org's mailing list archives, but
also for other archives. I'm not sure, though, if these archives perhaps
are all written by pipermail.

Has anybody else noticed this before ? Is there any simple resolution ?

    Gregor