Emailchemy is an amazing utility that can convert mailboxes from a vast array of email clients (ranging from most currently in use to others long forgotten) into any one of the following formats:

RFC-2822 mailboxes (“mbox” format or “UNIX-style”) and variants, folders of individual RFC-2822 email files (.txt or .eml files), Comma-separated value files (.csv files), Maildir (qmail) and Maildir++ (Courier IMAP).

A new updated version (1.8) adds a “toolbox” option to the app’s main screen:

The new utilities offer useful extra additional conversion grunt:

1. IMAP ImportServer – import your converted mail into your new email software using this desktop mail server.
2. Mailbox Splitter – split large mbox files by message count or file size
3. Address Harvester – extract email addresses from almost any file
4. Mac OS X Mail Cleaner – clean out files leftover from the Tiger upgrade

Emailchemy is shareware (USD 28 for a single user) and is available from the developer’s web site .mailboxes, conversion, mbox, email, imap, maildir, old email clients

Emailchemy is an amazing utility that can convert and retrieve emails out of almost any email client you have ever heard of and some that didn’t know existed.

See an earlier Hawk Wings post for a full list of the 19 clients and formats it understands.

It can save emails and mailboxes from these clients into the following formats:

RFC-2822 mailboxes (”mbox” format or “UNIX-style”) and variants, folders of individual RFC-2822 email files (.txt or .eml files), Comma-separated value files (.csv files), Maildir (qmail) and Maildir++ (Courier IMAP).

An updated version released today support for reading and writing Entourage .rge archive files.

Emailchemy is shareware (USD 25 for a single user) and is available from the developer’s webs site .mailboxes, conversion, mbox, email, maildir, old email clients

SystemsAligned offers a number of scripts and utilities which convert qmail-style Maildir email folders into the standard UNIX mbox format that Mail.app can import (and vice-versa).

Don’t know what that means? Neither do I really, although Wikipedia points the way. (Gosh, that’s a resource worth supporting!)

But people who do know what this means and who need to do a conversion like this may find the SystemsAligned resources a useful supplement to the Kmail to mbox script.