mbox-extract

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mbox-extract 0.2.0
Created by:
Paul Sajna <hello@paulsajna.com>

Extracts a mailbox text format file to individual text files per-message, with attachments

Usage: mbox-extract [OPTIONS] <MBOX_PATH> <OUTPUT_DIR> <FORMAT>

Arguments:
  <MBOX_PATH>
          Path to mailbox text format input file

  <OUTPUT_DIR>
          Path to output directory

  <FORMAT>
          Output format

          Possible values:
          - text: Text body only
          - html: HTML body only
          - raw:  Entire message with all headers

Options:
      --ss <START_DATE_RFC3339>
          Starting date in rfc3339 format

      --to <END_DATE_RFC3339>
          Ending date in rfc3339 format

  -h, --help
          Print help (see a summary with '-h')

  -V, --version
          Print version

Example Usage

# From Cargo
cargo run --release -- ./testdata/gmail.mbox ./out raw
# From executable
mbox-extract ./testdata/gmail.mbox ./out raw

The RUST_LOG environment variable may be used to set the log levels for different log output verbosity other output formats may be used to select different parts of the email.

Logging to file

mbox-extract  ./testdata/gmail.mbox ./out text 2>&1 | tee  log.txt