An Unusual Alpine Challenge?

[Linux for blind general discussion]

If they're files in true mbox format, you should be able to point your
favorite mbox client app at the folder name and proceed from there as
you do with any mailbox.

I just collected a selection of emails for an unrelated project in W3C
from the past few years and forwarded the emails as a ingle mbox file to
my colleague.

Best,

Janina

Linux for blind general discussion writes:
> Hi All: I did ask in comp.mail.pine about this, with no responses. I had
> lost quite a lot of text articles which I had been collecting all the way
> back to when I first got on CompuServe in 1994. A great place of finding
> News related wire stories were in Clari.net Usenet groups. Well, Giganews
> still has postings mostly back to 2004, some from 2003. However, we found an
> archive of articles from the 90s which are in .mbox format. I wanted to
> simulate looking at these stories as single articles the way they came off
> the news server, but these .mbox files are sometime 19thousand lines or
> 13MB. Sure there is Linux software to split these, but they are not
> maintaining their orriginal article dates. I think the package is git
> mail-split.
> So I created a new folder in Alpine, gave it a path where these articles are
> housed, but not only is Alpine still seeing the large .mbox file, but Alpine
> is noticing these as read only sub-directories, which in reality they are
> individual names of Clari news groups.
> Can any1 please suggest how better to work with these? I would want to
> aggregate groups of news stories to year related directories, then nuke
> them-and-go on to the next group as you would in an actual news reader. I
> tried naming these files differently thinking I can fool Alpine in to
> rendering them as I was hoping. Thanks so much in advance for any-and-all
> suggestions. There is another more complicate Debian package, mb2mdir  but
> it just gives these files strings of numbers-and-letters.
> Chime
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Janina Sajka
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Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa