Windows based reader for saved Unix mail wanted

[Ken Wampach]

I probably won't renew my Eskimo account since I haven't really
used it for over a year. I do have one minor issue. I have a
saved mail file with about 400 saved messages in it. Obviously I
can FTP it to my Windows PC in Ascii mode which will give me a
file which I can read with Windows based editors. This will give
me some access to the messages, if I need them.

I was wondering whether there are any very low cost (FREE) tools
which can read such a mail file that anyone has used. It would
be nice to have a Windows tool which can display the message
headers, and display/print a selected message. I presume that a
fair number of former Netcom Unix users that have faced this
issue.

I have seen some indications that Eudora Lite might do the job.
Does anyone have any first hand experience? Are there issues
other than it may be overkill, since I don't need it to read and
reply to new mail?

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide.

[David Arnstein]

Post by Ken Wampach
I was wondering whether there are any very low cost (FREE) tools
which can read such a mail file that anyone has used. It would
be nice to have a Windows tool which can display the message
headers, and display/print a selected message. I presume that a
fair number of former Netcom Unix users that have faced this
issue.

The email application bundled with Mozilla can certainly do this, and
I use it as such quite often. Netscape can do it too. Yes, I am
referring to the MSWindows versions of these programs.

[Howard Siegel]

Post by David Arnstein

Post by Ken Wampach
I was wondering whether there are any very low cost (FREE) tools
which can read such a mail file that anyone has used. It would
be nice to have a Windows tool which can display the message
headers, and display/print a selected message. I presume that a
fair number of former Netcom Unix users that have faced this
issue.

The email application bundled with Mozilla can certainly do this, and
I use it as such quite often. Netscape can do it too. Yes, I am
referring to the MSWindows versions of these programs.

Those would be the easiest ways to be able to read your
old UNIX mailbox.

Less easy, but more UNIXy, would be to get a version of
one of the mail client programs that also has a Windows
version and which have used on Netcom. Pine definitely
has one, as that is what I sometimes use on my Windows
box. I think mutt also has a Windows version. Not sure
about elm or any of the others.

[Doug Faunt N6TQS [phone]]

Post by David Arnstein

Post by Ken Wampach
I was wondering whether there are any very low cost (FREE) tools
which can read such a mail file that anyone has used. It would
be nice to have a Windows tool which can display the message
headers, and display/print a selected message. I presume that a
fair number of former Netcom Unix users that have faced this
issue.

The email application bundled with Mozilla can certainly do this, and
I use it as such quite often. Netscape can do it too. Yes, I am
referring to the MSWindows versions of these programs.
--

Gnu EMACS RMAIL will do this, also.

73, doug

[Mark Hittinger]

Post by Ken Wampach
I was wondering whether there are any very low cost (FREE) tools
which can read such a mail file that anyone has used. It would
be nice to have a Windows tool which can display the message
headers, and display/print a selected message. I presume that a
fair number of former Netcom Unix users that have faced this
issue.

Another idea might be to download cygwin (http://x.cygwin.com) and
install some of those packages. There might be something in that
package that would be similar to a shell mail program.

Later

Mark Hittinger
***@pu.net

[Howard Siegel]

Post by Mark Hittinger
Another idea might be to download cygwin (http://x.cygwin.com) and
install some of those packages. There might be something in that
package that would be similar to a shell mail program.

That's somewhat overkill if his regular UNIX e-mail client is
available in a Windows version such as Pine. If not, then you
are right in that he'll have to install cygwin to bring up the
e-mail client. Or just use Mozilla's e-mail client if he already
has Mozilla installed.