Re: email client for only reading email from mbox

[Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>]

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 08:44:23 -0800 (PST)
>> From: right.ho@gmail.com
>> 
>> Can one of you provide pointers to this usage? Summary :
>> 
>> I do NOT need :
>> 1. fetching email, using IMAP or anything else.
>> 2. sending email
>> 3. filtering email
>> 4. not particular on which emacs client to use, if it is good
>> 
>> Constraints I have :
>> 1. Tons of email
>> 2. Windows OS
>> 3. Thunderbird's mbox files to be read-only
>> 4. Reading mail and linking to mail from org-mode
>
> Did you try Rmail?  "C-u M-x rmail RET mbox-file RET" will allow you
> to read mail from the named "mbox-file" (which stands for the file
> name where you have that mbox).

another oprion is to use e.g. offlineimap [1]to get your email and read it
with e.g. gnus?

From their webpage:

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| OfflineImap synchronizes emails between two repositories, so that you
| can read the same mailbox from multiple computers. It supports IMAP as
| REMOTE repository and Maildir/IMAP as LOCAL repository. See below for a
| full list of features.
`----

I do this for three accounts (gmail, university exchange
server, iCloud mail account) and it works perfectly.

There are other imap sync programs as well which you could use.

Cheers,

Rainer

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Footnotes: 
[1]  http://offlineimap.org

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