oil3 / mbox-decompiler

Native macOS .mbox decompiler: extract everything

Mbox Decompiler

Mbox-Decompiler is a free macOS application to extract attachments from mbox files. Built with Swift and designed for sandboxed environments.

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Features

• 📤 Extract attachments from mbox files
• 🔀 Multithreading for speed
• 📎 Save every attachments to a specific directory
• 🛅 Sandboxed, hardened, notarized macOS app
• 💻 Native macOS app with SwiftUI

Installation

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App is notarized/signed and Gatekeeper friendly.

Straightforwad Usage

• 📨 Select mbox File: Click on "Select mbox file" to choose the mbox file from which you want to extract attachments.
• 📂 Select Output Directory: Click on "Select output directory" to choose the directory where the extracted attachments will be saved.
• 💾 Extract Attachments: Click on "Extract Attachments" to start the extraction process. The app will display the progress and the total number of attachments extracted.

Why this app?

• Had to sum up 365 amounts, and for a significant quantity of I had to retrieve from emails.
• Used Google Takeout to receive an archive of those emails, and the ".mbox" format, which is quite a format, wasn't expected.