Opening mailboxes in TextEdit?

Hello
I use to use OS 10.3. I now use OS 10.5. If I double click on a .mbox folder I get an error message saying "there is no default application to open the document xxx.mbox" I thought emails on OS 10.5 were stored in the mailbox folder on my hard disk as individual text files?? Hence I should be able to read every single email as a text file in TextEdit?
Can anyone throw any light on this?
Thanks Mark

Mark,
Reread my last post -- in each xxxx.mbox folder there is a Messages folder, and in the Messages folder are files that can be opened. In 10.5, any xxxx.mbox is an ordinary folder, and folders typically are not something to be opened with an application -- only files. Also, in 10.3, I am fairly sure it was not the xxxx.mbox that TextEdit could open, but rather the mbox file that was within the xxxx.mbox package. In 10.3 and earlier, any xxxx.mbox folder was a special folder that would only be opened with the Show Package Contents command. In 10.4 and later that is not the case, and they can be opened as with any folder. But you must drill down to an individual file to use the Open With command.
Ernie

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