mbox2eml

A simple tool to convert mbox files from Google Takeout to a folder of eml files.

Features

• Extracts emails from an mbox file into a folder
• Utilizes multithreading for efficient processing

Requirements

• C++ compiler supporting C++23
• Make

Building

To build the tool, run the following commands:

make

Usage

To convert an mbox file to individual eml files, use the following command:

./mbox2eml <mbox_file> <output_directory>

Example

./mbox2eml myemails.mbox output_emails

This will extract emails from myemails.mbox and save them into the output_emails directory.