dunnkers / eml-to-html

Tiny CLI tool that converts .eml email files to .html files

eml-to-html

Tiny CLI tool that converts .eml email files to .html files.

Installation

pip install eml-to-html

Usage

eml-to-html [EML FILE]...

Feel free to pass a glob. For example:

eml-to-html some_email_file_1.eml some_email_file_2.eml

and

eml-to-html *.eml

are both valid calls to the command. Cheers!

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Example

Running eml-to-html on the test_emails folder:

$ eml-to-html test_emails/*.eml
🟢 Written `test_email_1.html`
🟢 Written `test_email_2.html`

File tree is now:

$ tree test_emails 
test_emails
├── test_email_1.eml
├── test_email_1.html
├── test_email_2.eml
└── test_email_2.html

0 directories, 4 files

About

This micro module was written by Jeroen Overschie in 2022.

eml-to-html's Issues

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 3444: invalid continuation byte

I ran this package on a folder containing exported eml files and I kept getting this error.

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 3444: invalid continuation byte

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/user/projects/storytella/.venv/bin/eml-to-html", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/Users/user/projects/storytella/.venv/bin/eml_to_html.py", line 52, in main eml_to_html(file_path) File "/Users/user/projects/storytella/.venv/bin/eml_to_html.py", line 39, in eml_to_html message: Message = message_from_file(eml_file) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/email/__init__.py", line 54, in message_from_file return Parser(*args, **kws).parse(fp) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/email/parser.py", line 53, in parse data = fp.read(8192) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/codecs.py", line 322, in decode (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 3444: invalid continuation byte