[headbirth]

anyone know of an app that will open my archived mailboxes without having to import them into Mail?

[waffffffle]

pine

[brachiator]

BareBones' TextWrangler can open the mbox and read its constituent files. But at 49 bucks, hardly an elegant solution!

Alternatively, you can just read the file "mbox" in the .mbox package, with TextEdit (or any other text reader). Just ctrl-click on the .mbox in question, select the contectual menu "Show Package Contents," and then you'll see the "mbox" file that's plain text.

[headbirth]

That's great. Any idea though on how to get this Plain text file to read as RTFD so that any imbedded graphics will show?

[SuperHard]

Why don't you want to use mail.app? It is free and will import .mbox files including any pictures or movies that were originally attached. Also, it won't dump them into your inbox, rather it will place them in a newly created local folder to keep things tidy.

[P]

Eudora works. Just about any terminal-based email program (pine, elm...) works. I think the mail feature in emacs can do it, if you're feeling masochistic.

[headbirth]

This is for archived project mail I might need to access. I was just looking for a quick way to access old email. My project mail files can get pretty hefty and I like to simply archive them with the project and then delete them from Mail.

Importing them back into Mail and risk corrupting or cluttering mail to simply do a search or access and old attachment just seems like to much trouble. So, I was thinking a simple way to access the mbox file and do a search or detach a file I might need again would be handy.

I'm open to other methods of archiving your project mail if you have any.

[Mithras]

[blurp]

[Thor]

In mail, just use:
File > "Save As..."

You can save the message with the project as RTF. You can choose the option to include attachments.

Note:
You can select multiple messages and "Save As...". If more than one of the messages include attachments, all the attachments will be included.... However there seems to be a bug where if there is any text AFTER the attachment(s) those attachments will not be included in a multiple "Save As..."

Interesting. I had two e-mails with attachments:

E-mail 1:
==============
Text of message
<attachment1>
<attachment2>
Text
==============

E-mail 2:
==============
Text of message
<attachment1>
<attachment2>
==============

If I select E-mail 1 first, then E-mail 2, and "Save As..." the attachments from E-mail 1 are not included in the RTF file.

If I select E-mail 2 first, then E-mail 1, and "Save As..." all attachments are included.

[headbirth]

Thanks for the info. The Save as... is pretty buggy.

I selected 6 emails with no attachments and the resulting file had the first email, but only the headers of the rest.

Hope Apple is aware of this problem.