Did you know that since Tiger your OS X email has been converted to a new format? This new format is currently only readable from OS X.

This was done so Spotlight can search your email messages - I hope this is a temporary issue. I like my mail in an open format that anything can read which is what mbox is. Well Tiger’s taken your mbox and made emlx files. Yuk.

Luckily a tool exists that can convert these emlx files back to the mbox format:

This tool will convert your individual emlx mail files (found in ~/Library/Mail/) to the old mbox format, used by almost every UNIX/Linux mail client and recognized by many more.

With this tool, you could convert some individual emlx files to mbox and then import the mbox file using Mail for Mac OS X or almost any other mail client.

Yeah, I’m late to the show with this one but I didn’t know.

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