gromox-eml2mbox(8)
gromox-eml2mbox — Utility for converting RFC5322 Internet Mail messages into a RFC4155 mbox-format mailbox
Synopsis
Section titled “Synopsis”gromox-eml2mbox [file...] >out.mbox
Description
Section titled “Description”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
Section titled “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:
gromox-exm2mbox <1.eml >1.mbox
See also
Section titled “See also”gromox(7)