[filips]

Is it possible, or does something exist that I can Convert the individual OS X Mail Inboxes and/or Mail Folders or Export them somehow to Text Files?

I have a long list of repeating submissions in my Emails and I need to get them over to text and eventually XML.

Thanks.

[larkost]

AppleScript... I just took a look at Mail.app's dictonary, and here is a 30 second demo to get you started:

Code:
tell application "Mail"
	tell the first account
		tell the mailbox named "INBOX"
			get the content of the first message
		end tell
	end tell
end tell

[filips]

Hey, I'm thankful for the response... however, I'm not at all familiar with apple scripts... So, I guess a learning curve is in order... If you have any useful links and or tips, besides what I may find in OSX Help, please reply.

Do you think this work for folders too - such that I can target individual folders?

And what $ did you search for in Mail Help? I could not find this my first time around.

Thanks.

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by filips:
Is it possible, or does something exist that I can Convert the individual OS X Mail Inboxes and/or Mail Folders or Export them somehow to Text Files?

I have a long list of repeating submissions in my Emails and I need to get them over to text and eventually XML.

Thanks.

They're already text files. mbox files are just text files:

Code:
[dshaw@flybook ~] cd Library/Mail/Mailboxes/Filed/Saved.mbox/
[dshaw@flybook ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/Filed/Saved.mbox] ls -l mbox
total 21000
-rw-------  1 dshaw  dshaw  9932875 29 Jun 01:15 mbox
[dshaw@flybook ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/Filed/Saved.mbox] file mbox
mbox: Non-ISO extended-ASCII mail text

[filips]

OK. Thanks. If they are already text files, then that helps.

But I'm also not too familiar with the terminal command in your last line..

when you say "file mbox" what does that do exactly?

Is there a text program I can open a folder in to see all the emails at once?
So I can parse them for URL $'s?

Thanks.

[filips]

All I had to do was select the emails > save as > text!!

DOH!!!!

[yukon]

anyone know if Mail.app supports maildir or anything other than mbox?

[badtz]

Will Tiger's Mail.app convert the current mbox format to maildir?


anyone confirm?