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How can I read an INBOX file from an old UNIX account?
Several years ago I had an email account on a system running FreeBSD. The email ran on either 'pine' or 'elm', (I don't recall which). When I gave up that account, I saved back the file 'INBOX'. Is there some way I can read that file on my Windows PC? It would be helpful to be able to read the headers, even if I couldn't read the messages contained in the file.
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- G PLv 58 years agoFavorite Answer
It's very possibly a text format. Try opening in Wordpad.
If it comes down to it, you could install Cygwin (a unix emulator) and find a version of elm or pine that will run on it.
- Chris DLv 68 years ago
It's a plain text file. Each message follows the next and starts with the five characters "From ". (Not to be confused with "From: ".
There are tools and utilities that can split it up into individual messages, and IIRC Thunderbird can read it natively.
