mbx2mbox

Converts Outlook .mbx and .dbx files into standard UUCP mailbox files.

mbx2mbox attempts to convert Microsoft's proprietary .mbx and .dbx formats to the standard Unix-style UUCP mail format used by programs like UCB Mail, Pine, and Netscape Messenger The .mbx and .dbx files provided as arguments to mbx2mbox are processed and output to files having the same name, except without the .mbx extension.

Mailboxes from newer versions of Outlook and Outlook express may not be supported. (i.e. Your mileage may vary.) Be sure to compress your mailbox using Outlook, which should help remove some of the binary data from the file. Also be aware that this script has not been tested for Outlook versions since circa 1997, and may not work.

Also see:

liboe which actually understands and parses the OE mailbox format (unlike mbx2mbox which does a "good enough" job)
demoronizer for fixing Microsoft-munged HTML
eud2mbox for converting Eudora mailboxes to Unix-style mailboxes
Ries van Twisk's dbx2mbox, which handles more modern Outlook mailboxes. (Mirror here.)
You can also use Outlook's "save as text" output option, along with Ed Avis' tools to convert to standard mbox format.
Another quick and dirty converter can be found here.
Volker Tanger has written a similar program for extracting text from AOL messages: AOLexport.

If none of these programs work for you, try the list of techniques that Joel Williams has found.

Features:

	mbx and dbx support
	"Aggressive" mode which will remove foreign language characters

Links:

	Download most recent version (0.34)
	Change log
	Get the code via CVS
	Register to be notified of updates
	Join the users and developers mailing list
	Visit the public chat forums: Open Discussion, Help, Developers
	Report a bug, or submit a patch
	SourceForge project page for mbx2mbox

Author and Maintainer:

David Coppit <david@coppit.org>, http://coppit.org/

Thanks to SourceForge.net for the project hosting and management.