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This might be a dumb question but:

Once the mail processor has processed all the mail in the catch-all verp queue and filed it away in media/civicrm/custom/Mail.processed/etc/etc/,  is there supposed to be a way to view the mail either through Civi or by pointing a mail client at the folder?

I can read it native through the server or on the server admin panel file manager, but I'm sure there is meant to be a better way that I'm missing! 

That's just it, I'm not reading them as emails through a webmail client or downloading them as pop3.

Once civi has processed them, dealt with the bounces and opt-outs and filed them away in /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/media/civicrm/(you know the rest) the only way to look at them is through Plesk File Manager where I can view them as raw text files files and not as emails.

Webmail and pop3 on my server look for their emails elsewhere not in httpdocs.

Civi files them in a mail store structure (with new, cur tmp directories etc) so there is obviously a purpose to this, but I don't know what I'm supposed to do to access them as emails  (other than write a cron script to move them back to a 'real' mailbox).

I guess my question boils down to - what is the recommended method of accessing these processed emails as intended by the CiviMail designers?  I'm just not sure how to do it as designed.