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I have an archive of old emails in Maildir format. The directory (let's call it my_archive) has proper Maildir structure

$ ls ./my_archive
cur  new  tmp

I am able read the emails with mutt by specifying the mailbox to load:

mutt -f ./my_archive

Mutt is OK, but I would like to read the archive with a graphical email client, so that I can easily work with attachments.

Is there some similar way to open my archive in some email client like Thunderbird?

Martin Vegter
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Just install an IMAP server on your local machine, point it to these archives, and configure it as another account in your favourite graphical MUA.

I'm running an uw-imapd on my workstation at work to get synchronised access to local mail folders between text client (pine, in my case) and graphical client (kontact, in my case), since our company's new eMail hoster (G**gle) doesn't manage to get IMAP folders working right, and because I sometimes need to archive yet still access eMails that contain sensitive information.

mirabilos
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