gromox-eml2mbox(8)

🌸 Name 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to gromox-eml2mbox(8) from the Gromox admin reference 🫶 — the manual name is folded in right here like a little name tag, no cap. gromox-eml2mbox is the utility for converting RFC5322 Internet Mail messages into a RFC4155 mbox-format mailbox. It's giving serious “your eml files are getting a whole new lease on life” energy 💅✨.

✨ 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 whole purpose is to make those messages openable with command-line MUAs such as Alpine (https://alpineapp.email/). That's the serve. That's the whole plot. 👑

yes, “formated” is literally the spelling from the page — we're keeping the facts exactly as they are, bestie 😭

🎀 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. Like so:

gromox-eml2mbox *.eml >all.mbox

That may result in a "Argument list too long" error in sh. No stress — the remedy is this:

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

And to convert a single message coming from elsewhere via pipe:

gromox-exm2mbox <1.eml >1.mbox

Yup, that example really says gromox-exm2mbox — copy it exactly as shown, bestie 💅.

💜 See also 💜

• gromox(7) — go read that too, fr fr 🫶

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super cute sign-off: this is from Gromox 🌈, it's gromox-eml2mbox(8) 💖, and the footer didn't give us a date — so we're not inventing one, periodt. 🎀