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I have installed getmail and followed the gmail backup wiki from arch
the mails are stored in the folder ~/bak/mail/new
one sample file name in the folder is
1301676432.M385710P11869Q0Rfbdaf27df5ad25b6.localhost
How to view this in the mail format. Which application to use
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up to you, you can read them raw with vim or emacs (don't worry, quite readable)
or you can use proper clients like thunderbird and mutt
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Can you explain how to use those email clients.
I am interested in thunderbird since its installed in my pc
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This is maildir format. AFAIK Thunderbird cannot read the maildir folder directly, although it should be able to show individual messages (via File >> Open >> Saved message, then switch to "all files" type). You may install and setup an IMAP server to make the archive accessible to Thunderbird and almost every modern mail client.
Mutt can access maildirs directly, just use
mutt -Rf ~/bak/mail/
(R is for readonly -- it's archive after all..), but it is a text-mode program. One of most powerful mail clients in existence, BTW, but text-mode is appaling to many...
Evolution and kmail are graphical mailers capable of accessing maildirs directly (or so I've heard), but I do not use any of them, so I cannot give a valuable advice.
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