gromox-eml2mbox

Name

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

Synopsis

gromox-eml2mbox [file...] >out.mbox

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

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

See also

gromox(7)