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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> OFF TOPIC: My Unix mail file is too huge to access
Last fall I stayed away from the computer for a long time -- nice vacation. When I went to read my email, I had over 6,000 messages. I started reading and deleting away. Got knocked off the net without exiting. This happened several times until I was no longer able to bring up my email in PINE on Unix.
I saved the mail file and let the system continue in a new file. The old mail file is 30 MB. Now I have a stable environment. How do I get into my old mail so I can 1) delete old messages and 2) access a VERY important email that I need to use.
I don't think my unix account has a pop3 server. Someone suggested I ftp the file to my PC and read it there. When I did a file command, it said the mail file was ASCII text, but my important email has an attached Excel spreadsheet. Do I ftp in ASCII or binary mode? I don't have any mail software on my PC (I use a shell account and Yahoo). I don't want to use my Yahoo account to process this huge file via pop3.
How do I access my important email in this old mail file?
Thanks.
Jenny Jacobson
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Author: Jenny Jacobson
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