reading 172 meg txt file

[jdulberg]

I accidentally sent an email to my clients that accidentally started an "autoreply war" on the server. I was able to turn off the autoresponders to stop the messages but I now have a 172 meg email file that I need to check to see if there is any real email messages in there. I attempted to load it in MS Word but it crashed after about 10 minutes of loading. Edit in DOS starts to load it but fails at 80% loaded. I can "type" the file in DOS but that doesn't help.

So my question is - is there any way that I can view this file? Can I split it up into chunks?

Any ideas are helpful

[qslack]

Try getting a text editor like UltraEdit. I've opened up 100MB files in it before...you just need that much RAM, or your computer will start swapping like crazy.

[cupid]

Is your computer also the mail server? If you have pop running, you can get a program that reads and outputs the email headers only, giving you information such as the subject, size, author, etc. Something like ERemove

[Grandmaster]

You could always download it and then upload the txt on the web and view it threw IE.