Re: email client for only reading email from mbox

[Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: right.ho@gmail.com
>> 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, maybe
C-x RET c undecided-dos RET followed by C-u M-x rmail would do it (or
work on a copy, but that's less convenient if the aim is to make links
to the original file).

-- 
Nicolas Richard