This applies only to Apple Mail found in Leopard and Snow Leopard - earlier versions store and handle mail differently.
- create mbox2eml.pl, and put it on your $PATH
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Copyright (C) 2009 Josh A. Beam
#
# Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
# purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
# copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
#
# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
# WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
# MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
# ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
# WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
# ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
# OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
# mbox2eml.pl (last modified July 14, 2009)
# This Perl script creates separate .eml files for each email message in
# a given mbox file. The .eml files are created in the directory that the
# script is run from and each file is named according to the position of
# the message in the mbox file (for example, "1.eml" for the first message).
use strict;
# make sure an mbox filename was given
if($#ARGV != 0) {
print STDERR "Usage: $0\n";
exit(1);
}
# open mbox file
open MBOX, $ARGV[0] or die "Unable to open mbox file\n";
# loop through each line from mbox file
my $fileCount = 0;
my $blankLineCount = 2;
while(my $line =)
{
chomp($line);
$line =~ s/\r//g;
# check for the start of a new message
if($blankLineCount >= 1 && $line =~ /^From /) {
# open new eml file
close EML;
open EML, ">" . ++$fileCount . ".eml";
print "Saving " . $fileCount . ".eml\r";
} else {
# write line to file
print EML $line . "\n";
}
# check for blank lines
if($line eq "") {
++$blankLineCount;
} else {
$blankLineCount = 0;
}
}
# close files
close EML;
close MBOX;
print "Saved " . $fileCount . " files\n";- mkdir ~/someFolder
- cd ~/Library/Mail
- find . -type d -iname '*.mbox' -exec cp -R "{}" ~/someFolder/ \;
- cd ~/someFolder
- for directory in *.mbox ; do mkdir "${directory}-email" ; done
- for directory in *.mbox ; do mbox2eml.pl "${directory}/mbox" ; mv -v *.eml "${directory}-email" ; done
- rm -rf *.mbox
- Copy someFolder to the Windows computer
- Run File -> Import from Windows Live Mail - choose Live Mail format when asked
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