Email Address Extractor

This is a simple Node.js script for extracting email addresses from an MBOX file. It reads the content of the MBOX file, extracts email addresses from each message, and outputs them to a text file. I am a development student and I would appreciate any and all feedback. Thanks everyone!

Features

• Extracts email addresses from an MBOX file.
• Outputs the extracted email addresses to a text file.

Prerequisites

Before running this script, ensure you have the following installed:

• Node.js (v14 or later)
• MBOX file containing emails

Installation

2. Navigate to the project directory:

cd email-extractor

3. Install dependencies:

npm install

Usage

1. Place your MBOX file (with the .txt extension) in the project directory.
2. Open a terminal and navigate to the project directory.
3. Run the script with the following command, replacing your_mbox_file.txt with the name of your MBOX file:

node extractEmails.js your_mbox_file.txt

4. The script will process the MBOX file and output the extracted email addresses to a file named output.txt in the project directory.

Example

Suppose you have an MBOX file named emails.mbox.txt containing emails. To extract email addresses from this file, run:

node extractEmails.js emails.mbox.txt

The script will generate an output.txt file containing the extracted email addresses.