Is it stored in a legible form? (strings(1) is fine, I just want the read the "meat" of the message)

I went searching for the "mbox" of Mail.app as I was ssh'd in and wanted to check my mail.

The reason I want to do this is because I left my iBook at home with Mail.app still running, auto-POPing into my mail server. I saw an important message in my maillog but it has ended up on my iBook.