On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 06:51:29 +0100, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > On Wednesday 10 Aug 2016 19:26:56 Mick wrote: > > > Peter, I recall you being a long term sufferer of Kmail2 problems, which I > > do not experience here. > > Yes, I have some old archives preserved as tar.bz2 files, but I can't import > them into KMail because of some internal damage to many of the messages. I > think the damage was caused by a gradually developing hardware problem > (which has eventually forced me into replacing the whole box), and KMail, > akonadi and friends can't handle the mess. They aren't what I would call > defensively programmed. They either throw wobblers or refuse to co-operate > at all. > > So I have the basic data and can use standard tools to examine them if > necessary; that will have to do for now. Meanwhile, KMail is working happily > with stuff originating on the new box - apart from the apparently inevitable > duplicate messages of course.
You could just try notmuch. Extract your tarball and run "notmuch new" on that - of course you want to configure notmuch before that, "man notmuch" may help. If it doesn't throw any errors you can try some basic queries like "notmuch search subject:MUA" to see if indexing went fine. You could try https://github.com/astroidmail/astroid as a frontend. It supports HTML-Mails, is highly configurable and completely keyboard-driven but still requires webkit-gtk:3... Happy testing ;)
