gromox-eml2mbox - Utility for converting RFC5322 Internet Mail messages into a RFC4155 mbox-format mailbox

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Name

gromox−eml2mbox — Utility for converting RFC5322 Internet Mail messages into a RFC4155 mbox-format mailbox

Synopsis

gromox−eml2mbox [file...] >out.mbox

gromox−eml2mbox reads one or more RFC5322-formated e-mail messages and re-exports them as a Unix mbox to stdout. The purpose is to make messages openable with command-line MUAs such as Alpine <https://alpineapp.email/>.

Examples

When − is given as an argument, standard input is expected to contain a list of filenames (i.e. indirection). This can help when *.eml leads to an expansion the system cannot handle:

gromox−eml2mbox *.eml >all.mbox

May result in a "Argument list too long" error in sh. Remedy for that:

find . −maxdepth 1 −type f −name "*.eml" | gromox−eml2mbox −
>all.mbox

To convert a single message coming from elsewhere via pipe:

stuff | gromox−exm2eml >1.mbox