mboxtocsv

scripts to parse mbox file, convert to csv

Converting your .mbox email collection into a .csv data file:

1. Copy this repository to your computer by opening Terminal/Cygwin and entering git clone https://github.com/akstuhl/mboxtocsv.git
2. Still in Terminal, move into the repository's directory by entering cd mboxtocsv
3. Copy your .mbox file into the mboxtocsv directory
4. Open mbox_parser.py in a text editor and in the line for message in mailbox.mbox('Spam.mbox'): replace Spam.mbox with the name of your .mbox file
5. Again in the terminal, enter python mbox_parser.py
6. You should see a file appear in the mboxtocsv directory called clean_email.csv, which you can open in Excel, etc.