Re: email client for only reading email from mbox

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On Friday, November 28, 2014 3:59:17 PM UTC+5:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Nicolas Richard <>
> > Cc: , 
> > Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 10:53:32 +0100
> > 
> > Eli Zaretskii <> writes:
> > >> From: 
> > >> It opened the 600MB file as a text file, not as a list of emails, along with ^M for each line. Did you mean this?
> > >
> > > No, of course not.  Make the file be in Unix EOL format first, I think
> > > that's your problem.  You can do this in Emacs, like this:
> > >
> > >   M-x find-file-literally RET file-name RET
> > >   C-x RET f unix RET
> > >   C-x C-s
> > >
> > > Then kill the buffer and repeat the "C-u M-x rmail" command above.
> > >
> > > If that doesn't work, either, perhaps your mbox is not in the mbox
> > > format understood by Rmail (you should have error messages in that
> > > case).
> > 
> > Since there is a requirement that the file should not be modified
> 
> Can it be copied, then?
> 
> Anyway, I suspect that the original mbox file did indeed use Unix
> EOLs, and the fact that this one doesn't is simply an artifact of the
> program used to generate it on Windows.  Mbox files always use Unix
> EOLs.
> 
> > maybe C-x RET c undecided-dos RET followed by C-u M-x rmail would do
> > it
> 
> No, it won't.  Rmail requires the mbox file in Unix EOL format.

I can copy the files - hopefully run a windows equivalent of cron for this.

After I converted to UNIX EOLs, it works - but it shows exactly 255 messages in a file with about 3000 messages. Am I missing some obvious setting to see all messages?