Generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of electronic mail messages.
Questions tagged [mbox]
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Open mbox File?
How to open a mbox file? Mutt displays no mails when calling mutt -f sent.mbox.
The mbox format is "From" without colon.
Is there any mbox viewer for Linux?
Thank you in advance.
chris
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How can I verify the integrity of an mbox archive from the command line?
I have a large mbox file backup from gmail. It's over 5GB, and gets updated with new messages every night via a cron job. I would like the cron job to also check the validity of the archive, to make sure it's still a valid mbox format.
Is there a…
Chase Seibert
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Ubuntu 21.10 - Thunderbird 91.x.x drops (movemail) mbox support!
I just upgraded from Ubuntu 21.04 to Ubuntu 21.10.
Baring a few glitches here and there, it's now running ok.
However, I just discovered that Thunderbird 91.x.x removed movemail support! That means that I've lost support for my /var/mail/*…
heynnema
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evolution error: mbox sent folder invalid URI
My dad has a POP email account, and has been using Evolution to manage it since Karmic or Lucid (with no problems). After upgrading him to Oneiric a couple days ago, when I opened evolution, it asked to convert his mailbox format because the format…
zpletan
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How to convert multiple eml files into one mbox file?
Similar questions were asked 5 years ago and before, which answers are now obsolete. Also, I do not wish to use an online service.
I wish to convert thousands of eml files into one mbox file.
Would anybody here know if this can be done, and…
rob grune
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Transferring mails and user setting to new mail server
We have a mail server running Debian 5.0. It is one year old now but we want to deploy a new server with Ubuntu Server 10.04. The problem is that we want to transfer all the user mails and settings to the new mail-serverl. So all their usernames and…
hsinxh
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Extract mbox file emails to file system with attachments
I have a mbox file, with 200 emails, each with 4 attachments.
I want to extract those emails to a folder for each email, the name of the folder would be the title of the email, inside the folder a html file with the message, and all the…
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Does Ubuntu have a Large File 3G+ '.mbox' email reader
I recently archived my Gmail that consisted of 46K emails. I downloaded a 3G '.mbox' file from Gmail. I need an '.mbox' reader so I can search and read these emails.
I recently learned the US Gov considers any digital media on the internet that is…
xtrchessreal
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different mailbox formats for special dovecot/system users
On a server me and a friend set up we're currently using mbox mailbox format.
(Think I should mention that my friend set up the mail part of the server and I yet don't know too much about mailserver configuration...)
As I like the subfolder…
Roland Kohn
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How to iterate eml file with mailutils?
How would a directory of .eml files be iterated?
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ mail -f foomail/foo.eml
"/home/nicholas/foomail/foo.eml": 0 messages
nicholas@mordor:~$
Whereas, I'd like to see a list to select from.
Nicholas Saunders
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Install and use JOE Editor on Ubuntu 16.04
I miss Joe! I've been using Ubuntu since Ubuntu 8.04 (it was easy).
When I learned more about computering, I got JOE and had fun.
It was always hard to change my hardware or make a complete new installation. because I run a small enterprise, being…
marweis
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readpst error "could not get root record"
I have installed readpst package and while converting pst file to mbox using "readpst -r outlook.pst".I get following error message:
Could not get root record
Rahul Jadhav
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evolution -> thunderbird migration and archive size
I just migrated my email from evolution 3.2.3 to thunderbird. As that version of evolution is already storing email in maildir format I exported all folders by hand into mbox format (from within evolution, doing select all + save as) and then…
Martin Wiebusch
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IMAP mail gatherer with correct behavior of setting mail as read
At first I tried fetchmail with the given config. The problem was that all mails in the inbox would be marked as read in IMAP server upon running fetchmail:
set postmaster danial
set no bouncemail
poll mail.tld.com protocol IMAP user "danial" there…
Danial Behzadi
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How to import an mbox file into the Pine or Alpine mail client?
I'm a light Alpine e-mail client user.
If I navigate into ~/mail and run mail -f baz I'll get an expected list of old alpine/pine messages.
Alpine doesn't use mbox.
I added an mbox backup to that directory. When launching Pine I certainly can see…
Nicholas Saunders
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