[Evolution] How to read archived mail ??

[William Case <billlinux rogers com>]

Hi;

I am looking for suggestions, tips or howtos.

Periodically, once every six months or so, I go through my Evo Saved
file.  I either delete emails I no longer want to save, or move stuff to
a sub-folder called MessageArchive. (Lots of good stuff from mailing
lists in there).  I then copy 
/home/bill/.evolution/mail/local/Saved.sbd/MessageArchive to a general
archive directory where I store all kinds of files that I have archived.
I finish by deleting every thing in Evo's MessageArchive.  I am then
good for another six-eight months

My question is: Is there an easy way to read those archived messages if
I want to look up something I have archived?  A straight text read is
difficult to sort out because of the header data and all -- that is what
I have been doing whenever I wanted something up to now.  Perhaps some
awk scripts but that would be a learning curve!  

I have thought of running a second instance of Evo, but then how would I
find the saved Message Archive file?  Would I create a link?  Copy the
files back to /.evolution?  Or is there a simple email program like mutt
or others that would let me get a quick read of one of these old stored
files?

I have been playing around, but haven't yet settled on a strategy to
dive into.  Any suggestions or thoughts would be helpful.

-- 
Regards Bill