Conversion Tools: E-Mail
formail is a filter that can be used to force mail into mailbox format,
perform `From ' escaping, generate auto- replying headers, do simple header
munging/extracting or split up a mailbox/digest/articles file. The mail/mail-
box/article contents will be expected on stdin. formail is part of the
procmail
package.
platform: Linux
license: GPL
convert_mail.pl
makes it easier to migrate a large amount of maildir
mailboxes to mbox format for the Communigate mail server.
platform: Linux
license: GPL
Utility to transfer UNIX mailboxes to a Windows POP3 server
mailshift
is a utility that
reads a user's UNIX mailbox and writes the messages in a form readable by
Infradig's Inframail Windows POP3 (and other protocols) server. It's useful for
receiving all users' mail at once on a dual-boot machine under Linux while
allowing Windows users to read their mail with the client of their choice.
platform: Linux
license: GPL
stripmime
is a quick and dirty Perl script to strip user-specified MIME
sections out of email messages. stripmime acts as a filter, and can be used
with programs like procmail and majordomo to turn MIME-encrusted messages into
something that text mail readers can deal with more easily.
platform: Linux
license: GPL
mbx2mbox
attempts to convert Microsoft's proprietary .mbx and .dbx format
mailboxes to the standard RFC822 mailboxes used by programs like Pine, Eudora,
and Netscape.
platform: Linux
license: GPL
mbox-extract
consists of two
utilities, parse and mparse, which try to extract uuencoded and mime-encoded
files, respectively, from email contained within an MBox. This goes
hand-in-hand with fetchnews or fetchmail.
platform: Linux
license: freely distributable
OtlkToNs
can be used to
migrate mail files from OutLook Express (mbx only) to UNIX mail files suitable
for use in Netscape Communicator.
platform: Linux
license: GPL
mail2sms
converts a (MIME) mail to a short message, allowing search/replace,
conditional rules, date/time dependent actions, customizing the output format,
etc. The output defaults to 160 characters, which is perfectly suitable for
sending the text to a GSM telephone as an SMS message. This software does not
include any code for actually sending the text to anything else but another
program or stdout.
platform: Linux
email2sms
is a filter written in Perl which converts an e-mail into a form
suitable for sending as an SMS message. Its main advantage over the
alternatives is that it uses the CPAN module Lingua::EN::Squeeze to compress
the text down to as little as 40% of its original size, so you can get much
more of your e-mail into the 160 character limit imposed by SMS. It is fully
MIME compatible, and has many configurable options, including removal of quoted
text. Ideal for use with procmail. A Perl script for sending the output to a
typical e-mail to SMS web gateway is included.
platform: Linux
license: Artistic
tozwgc
is an image to Zephyr message converter. It can convert any picture
format that ImageMagick is able to handle into a message suitable for sending
over the Zephyr service. Essentially it colorizes a large chunk of text to
simulate the original image. It is intended to be used along with a program
like netcomics to send todays comics to subscribing users.
elm2mutt:
This script takes all aliases from Elm and outputs a list of aliases suited
for Mutt. It is handy for people who want to switch from Elm to Mutt or for who
wants to use both email clients.
platform: Linux
eud2mbox:
This is a conversion utility to convert Eudora mailboxes (already mostly
mbox format) to real mbox-formatted mailboxes, removing all the html/x-flowed
and other garbage. It also reads the TOC file and properly inserts both Status:
and X-Status: headers so that mailers like mutt/pine/elm can properly tell what
messages are read, new, replied, etc.
AutoConvert
consists of three parts: A converter from Chinese HZ encoding to
GB encoding, an auto-converter from HZ/GB/BIG5 encoding to GB/BIG5 encoding,
and a working procmail example to auto-convert incoming mail.
platform: Linux,
license: GPL
mll2html
reformats an ASCII mailinglist file to a more practical HTML
file.
Converts Mailto form data into readable format SimtelNet
platform: MS-Windows95/98
compface
converts 48x48 .xbm format (X bitmap) files to a compressed format
that can be placed in your X-Face: mail header. Some mailreaders,
like exmh will then display this image when the user is reading your mail.
platform: Linux
lotus2mail.pl
is designed to reformat mail forwarded from a Lotus
Notes account (useful if you have two accounts: the lotus notes one and
another, where you forward the mail using agents). The typical Lotus Notes
forward splits the header information in 2 columns; this script
re-constructs the header information.
license: GNU General Public License (GPL)
rss2email
is a simple Python script that lets you subscribe to a list of XML newsfeeds (RSS or Atom) and get new items sent to you by email.
license: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Mb2md.pl
not only converts mailbox files into a Maildir, but also
the /var/spool/mail/$USER mailspool file. It is smart enough to not
transfer a dummy message such as the one UW IMAPD puts at the start of
Mbox mailboxes. You can add your own search terms to the script to make it
ignore other forms of dummy first messages.
license: Freeware
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