The Mbox2eml program was developed to be a Java application and therefore you should not expect the performance of a compiled application. If you load a large mailbox it might takes a minute or so before the content is shown. Sender, receiver, subject and date is shown in the top panel, the message content in the bottom panel and attachments in the small right bottom panel.
You can then export all or selected messages into the eml format, which can easily be imported into Outlook Express (via drag and drop). You can choose any folder to export the messages to. The file names of the exported messages consist of the sender's or receiver's name (choosable from the options menu) and the subject. The file date will be set to the message date. If the created filename already exist, it will be enumerated, so no message is lost.
You have also the possibility to extract all or selected attachments from one message.
If you get an error message "Out of Memory" when opening very large mailboxes (>100MB) you need to assign more memory to the Java VM. For this, start Mbox2eml directly from the command prompt with the parameter -Xmxm, where is the amount of memory in megabytes for the VM. For starting the VM with e.g. 256MB RAM, type:
java -Xmx256m -jar mbox2eml.jar
This should be sufficient even for very large mailboxes.
· Supports MIME format
· Limited support for HTML-Mail
· Handles Base64, Quoted Printable and Uuencode
· Allows easy export to Outlook Express
· Exported files will not overwrite each other like in Outlook Express when exporting to eml
· The file date of the exported messages will be set to the message date
Requirements:
· JRE 1.3 or higher
Limitations:
· Supports only Western charsets