Re: search mailreader to read big archives

Ekkard Gerlach <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:12:31 +0100
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Hallo Dave,

thank you so much for your help:

* Dave Leifer schrieb:

> On Wednesday 10 December 2003 12:52 pm, Ekkard Gerlach wrote:
> > Who hat experiences with mailreaders? - I want to copy
> > some of my big mail archives (each files about 8MB
> > with about 5.000 Mails)   to Z. and read them
> > when I'm travelling. The mailreader delivered with Z.
> > original software needs some index files that I don't
> > know to generate.
> >
> > I seach a mailreader who doesn't need index files (like
> > mutt) or is able to generate them itself. The mailreader
> > hast to cope with mail archives with one file is about 8MB
> > and containing about 5.000 mails.
> >
> > thx
> Ekkard,
> 
> You don't say which software / version you are using on your Z or what 
> mail services you are currently using on the PC and how your archives 
> are are packaged.

I'm using original software:
 embedix Plus PDA v. 1.0
 Qtopia  1.5.0 (trolltech-translation)

> In case your mail archives are in "mbox" format then this reader might 

Yes, they are!! Pure mbox format. I'm working with mutt
and mutt only make mbox format.

> be just the thing for you:  Mbox Reader:
> http://killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=986

the download site
 http://www.tigress.co.uk/rmy/zaurus/MboxReader/MboxReader_0......
 is offline at the moment. But this mbox reader seem to be 
 *exactly* the application I need!! 

lets wait until tigress.co.uk is up again ...

thx
Ekkard