[Tutor] mailing list archive reader

[Lloyd Kvam]

As an experiment, I downloaded a small mailman archive and unzipped it.
I changed the name to 2003March and copied it into my Netscape Mail directory.

I started Netscape and it accepted the archive as just another email folder.
The sort by thread, subject and sender functions all worked.  This kind of
approach can work with the email programs that simply save the emails as
a text file while building a separate index (.msf in Netscape's case) file for
managing the email.  This won't work with Outlook.


roy ollis wrote:
> is there a program that can read the mailing list archives from a local 
> flie and format them like the online options (ie date, thread, author).  
> i downloaded each months archies but the seem to be huge flat files with 
> alot of repition for threads.  i looked into mailman but evidently it 
> requires an expert to force it into windows and if i was an expret i 
> wouldn't need the list so much  ;) .im currently running xp on a 2.6 
> pentium if that matters.  and i have a glitchy dial up which is why i 
> want to run from the local files.  by the time i get reconnected during 
> high traffic times i lose my train of thought,  very bad for the 
> untrained mind.  thanks for any help/pointers.  i'm still at the raw 
> newbie stage learning python as a first comp language so make it for 
> dummies style if ya can.  thanx.   roy
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