From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: email client for only reading email from mbox Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 20:39:22 +0000 Message-ID: <87lhmpg51h.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417552802 21072 80.91.229.3 (2 Dec 2014 20:40:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 20:40:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 02 21:39:54 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XvuEk-0003uC-98 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2014 21:39:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38726 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvuEj-0004Al-Ra for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2014 15:39:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41234) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvuEQ-0004AO-NI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2014 15:39:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvuEI-0001Dp-Ee for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2014 15:39:34 -0500 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp01.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.7]:49453) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvuEI-0001DQ-8O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2014 15:39:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail03.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.16]) by outbound-smtp01.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4833698ABD for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2014 20:36:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 5350 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2014 20:39:24 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[109.76.254.213]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 2 Dec 2014 20:39:24 -0000 In-Reply-To: (message from Jason Rumney on Sat, 29 Nov 2014 18:32:41 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 81.17.249.7 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101374 Archived-At: Jason Rumney writes: > On Friday, 28 November 2014 18:29:17 UTC+8, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> 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. > > I can confirm that Thunderbird mail files on my Windows PC are using > DOS EOLs, and rmail is unable to open them properly. I am however > able to read them using Gnus nndoc backend. I've used RMAIL to read Thunderbird mail files. I haven't bothered to convert the end-of-line characters. For my Thunderbird mail files it works anyway. I don't know why the people in this thread are having problems, perhaps Thunderbird has changed it's format (I have 31.2). By the way, Thunderbird doesn't strictly use DOS line-endings in it's mail files. Each email uses whatever line-endings it came with. Often some of the mails in a file will have Unix line-endings and others DOS. I have found a big problem though, UTF-8 mails. For some reason Thunderbird converts all UTF-8 mails to base64 when it puts them in it's files. Oddly it doesn't seem to do this with any other character sets. At some point in the future I'm going to write a script to process the Thunderbird mail files I have into proper mbox files that can be read by RMAIL, I haven't done that yet though. BR, Robert Thorpe