Re: Opening 300MB sent mail file
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:45:57AM -0700, george@georgesbasement.com wrote:
> What's a workable method of opening a 300MB file that I saved
> several years ago ? It's from Mozilla's email client, and it
> was an unorganized Sent Mail file. It's one huge concatenated
> set of emails. When I've tried to open it so far, I see 100%
> memory usage right away, but after long waits (half an hour)
> progress appears to slow to a crawl. When I most recently tried
> to open it with Mozilla-Thunderbird, I could read the beginning
> of the file (starting in 1998 !) but the screensaver came on
> before it opened all the way, and that seems to put the kibosh
> on finishing ...
>
> I have also tried OpenOffice, AbiWord, Mozilla-Firefox as well,
> with about the same result.
>
> My system has 500MB of memory and 10GB of free disk space that I
> can be sure of.
>
> Are there any debian app's which can handle this file ?
Is it a mailbox file? Then you could use mb2md:
apt-cache show mb2md
Run it (with nice, ecause it will take a very long time), and you'll
have a Maildir, which should be easier to access (it stores one message
per file).
J.
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