On 20/01/2018 Shal Farley <shals2nd@...> wrote:
Once downloaded, what is the mechanism for either accessing or
reinstating the data?
The .mbox content (inside the .zip file) is plain text, so you could
open it with a plain text editor such as Notepad (on Windows).
(...)
To see it in a more useful form you need a program designed for reading
email, such as Thunderbird. Thunderbird doesn't make this process easy,
it doesn't have an "import" method for .mbox files, you either need to
install an add-on or put the file in a folder under Local Folders in
Thunderbird's internal data structures.
I've done this several times; just put the mbx file in the same directory
as the other email files and Thunderbird should detect it. I don't think
you even need to rename it.
Perhaps some other email readers
make it easier.
The same system (or thereabouts) should work for any mail reader that uses
MBX files. I've seen a couple that have an "import" function; anything by
Microsoft, of course, doesn't have any means to make life easy.
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rgds
LAurence
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