Browsing a big mailbox offline

Sheila King usenet at thinkspot.net
Wed May 29 10:09:36 EDT 2002


On 29 May 2002 09:58:04 GMT, Sebastien SAUVAGE <nospam at sebsauvage.net>
wrote in comp.lang.python in article <2002529-10584-626303 at foorum.com>:

> 
> Hello.
> 
> I'm looking for a convenient way for browsing *offline* the
> marvellous comp.lang.python archive (a nice 397 Mb mailbox file available at
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/  )
> 
> I found no news client capable of reading/importing a raw unix mailbox.
> Does anybody know a news client capable of this ?
> (platform : Windows)
> 
> Or will I have to install a local NNTP server ?
> (something like CoffeeLink Open News Server or Hamster ?)

Another suggestion (for Windows) is Forte Agent. http://www.forteinc.com
It has a 30 day preview, is both a mail reader and a news reader, and does
import mbox formatted files.

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Sheila King
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