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Re: mbox format

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On 2017-03-02, Jack Shown <jackshown@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry if this is a dumb question but does free mail software still
> exist for the Mac  in which email can be preserved in mbox format
> after download from a server?  If so, what is it and where can I
> obtain it?
>
> If not, does commercial software exist for this?
>
> I prefer mbox format since I can use grep to find important info in
> the text-based mbox format.

I don't see the point in that when the built-in free mail client, Apple
Mail, has a built-in Spotlight search facility that lets you find
messages *way* faster than any command-line grep search could possibly
hope to find them, and with flexible and rich search criteria. It's
extremely fast and flexible.

You can certainly export any mailbox from Apple Mail to MBOX format by
selecting the mailbox in question and choosing Mailbox > Export Mailbox
from the menu bar. But, again, there's no need to do that since the
built-in search facility is faster than any command-line search.

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JR

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