Convert Apple IMAP Mail Spool to MBOX format
From Simson Garfinkel
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I lost some email. My TimeMachine backup has the mail in the IMAP cache, so I wrote this program to convert the Apple IMAP Mail Spool cache to MBOX format. Once in MBOX format you can re-import through Apple Mail.
#!/usr/bin/python
import os,email,mailbox,os.path,sys
indir=sys.argv[1]
if os.path.exists(sys.argv[2]):
print sys.argv[2],"exists."
exit(1)
out = open(sys.argv[2],"w")
if __name__=="__main__":
for (dirpath,dirnames,filenames) in os.walk(indir):
for filename in filenames:
if filename.endswith(".emlx"):
fn = dirpath+"/"+filename
print fn
msg = "\n".join(open(fn,"r").read().split("\n")[1:])
em = email.message_from_string(msg)
out.write(str(em))
out.write("\n")