In order to view these emails, we recommend you use Mozilla's Thurderbird. Instructions for doing so are appended below, but most people should ask for help from a computer-savvy person.
Town emails to VHB engineering can be downloaded from here: Town Emails
Follow the steps below to get the town emails imported into Thunderbird.
The minutes from Mill River Greenway Committee meetings available in two forms:
- MS Word .docx or .pdf files. A few months are missing from this collection.
- Scans of printed copies. These are more complete and are grouped with a single file per year, but can't be copied & pasted from.
Setting Up Thunderbird
Steps to make the emails available on your computer (need be done only once):
- Download Thunderbird from here
- Install Thuderbird
- Open the application
- Click Tools on the menu bar and chooose "Add-Ons and Themes"
- In the Find More Add-Ons search field, enter "ImportExportTools"
- To the right of the entry for "ImportExportTools NG," click the green "Add To Thunderbird" button
- Close the two tabs up top labeled "Add-ons Manager" and "ImportExportTools"
- Download both the MRGC Email and Town Email .zip files
- Open each zip file in turn, and
- Unzip the emails into a temporary folder
- Within Thunderbird, find "Local Folders" on the left
- Right-click on Local Folders, and then, from the pop-up menu, choose ImportExportTools NG > Import MBOX files > All MBOX files from directory
- Point the import to the temporary folder in which you unzipped the email files
Once this setup is complete, to view the emails, start Thunderbird, and choose one of the Local Folders on the left. The list of emails from that year will appear on the right. Double-click on one of them to display the email. When you're done, click the X on the tab for the email to close it.