konimarti / elixir-mbox

Read and write MBOX files in Elixir

Mbox

Read and write mbox files. Works well in combination with elixir-mail.

Elixir fork of go-mbox.

Installation

def deps do
  [
    # Get from hex
    {:mbox, "~> 0.1.0"}

    # Or from github
    {:mbox, github: "konimarti/elixir-mbox"}
  ]
end

Usage

Parse mbox files

{:ok, body} = File.read("path/to/mboxfile")
messages = Mbox.Parser.parse(body)

Render mbox files

output = Mbox.Renderer.render(messages)

In combination with elixir-mail

{:ok, body} = File.read("path/to/mboxfile")

mails =
body
|> Mbox.Parser.parse
|> Enum.map(&Mail.Parsers.RFC2822.parse/1)