Browsing a big mailbox offline

[Gerhard Häring]

In article <2002529-10584-626303 at foorum.com>, Sebastien SAUVAGE wrote:
> 
> 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)

Sounds like a job for a mail client.

mutt for Windows can read this. It's available as a Cygwin package.

Mozilla also uses mbox files, though on Windows it uses Windows line endings.
You could just try if it accepts the Unix mbox file.

One way or the other, I suppose that it will take a while until the mail client
reads all of the mbox. You'd perhaps rather have kept the original downloaded
one-month-per-mbox files ;-)

Gerhard