Here is the answer to my question with the help of some emails I received off the list. <div><br></div><div>WinRar and Windows compressed folders do not work for this very well. Use 7-zip to open the Gzip'd Text files. Once you open the file in 7-zip it looks like a text file i.e. 2011-October.txt, but it is not a txt file, it is actually a another zipped file ending in .txt After about 8 more double clicks you finally drill down to the real .txt file. </div>
<div><br></div><div>After this I finally got a file that had readable text but it was all run together.</div><div><br></div><div>I wanted to read this in a mail viewer for easy searching so I installed Thunderbird and went to the directory where the mail is kept. You can find this by right clicking on "Local Folders" and selecting "Settings". There you will see a link right to your folder where your mail is kept. Copy and paste that link into Explorer and once you are in that directory you can dump the .txt files there. Then after restarting Thunderbird all the messages will be in there just like you received them through your email account.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This process is a little cumbersome and there is probably a better solution but it works.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mike - N3KPU</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Mike Ping <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@pingmonster.net">mike@pingmonster.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I asked this question before and still haven't conquer this problem. I a<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">m trying</font> to view the Gzip'd Text archives on the App_rpt-users Archives webpage at <a href="http://ohnosec.org/pipermail/app_rpt-users/" target="_blank">http://ohnosec.org/pipermail/app_rpt-users/</a>.<div>
<br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I have tried the instructions found at <a href="http://johnpoelstra.com/tag/import/" target="_blank">http://johnpoelstra.com/tag/import/</a> and it works for his example but when I apply the same instructions for the files of this group it doesn't produce anything I can read. When I download and unzip I get a .txt file but when I open it all I get is a bunch of box symbols</font></pre>
</span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><br>
</span></div>It would be really useful to be able to search these locally all in one folder as opposed to browsing through each month one at a time.</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Any suggestions?</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mike - N3KPU</font></pre>
</span></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div>