On 08/11/13 14:49, mick wrote:
Hi guys
I have been given a large stash of (email I believe) files with the extension .eml. I think these were created with outlook or outlook express. I have no MS software.
The files appear to be text/XML but reading them with a text editor is difficult in many cases.
Does anyone know of a linux based application I can use to make this task any easier.
Hi, they are email, and as Mark said, Thunderbird can read them. I don't think they're XML, but they will be the bare bones of the emails: Headers & associated text. Perhaps HTML for HTML emails If you're unlucky you may get some "rich text" and you may get some files encoded as a mime attachment. You won't get very far with attachments in a plain text editor. Thunderbird will open .eml files. If you drag and drop into TBird, it will add them to whichever folder you have opened. I dunno if it will do many at a time, but you could create a folder and import them into it. File/Open works well - it doesn't seem to copy the email into a folder, it just displays it. There's a possibility that Tools/Import will help.
I guess the question is, what do you want to do with them?
If you want to decode the attachments, ISTR that there's an app for that, to strip/extract/decode mime attachments from txt/eml files, but I can't remember what it is.
Sorry, hope that helps in some way.
Steve