Email – How to Open EML Files

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I've got a mail with eml file attached. I'm using Thunderbird but it doesn't open it.

Could anybody suggest program to open eml files?

Update:

I don't want to import my mailbox I want only read the content of eml file.

For the love of command line tools, instead of the visual/heavy Thunderbird/KMail or Evolution.

sudo apt-get install mpack

Then to extract the eml contents

munpack 1.eml

In my case I need to use -t to get past the following error messages

munpack ./ServerPerformance.eml 
tempdesc.txt: File exists
image001.jpg.2 (image/jpeg)

I then get every thing out like this.

munpack -t ./ServerPerformance.eml 
part1 (text/plain)
part2 (text/html)
image001.jpg.3 (image/jpeg)

Here is a Thunderbird addon that can perform the necessary backup. It can save to multiple text files, or just one, depending on your settings, and is licensed under the GNU GPL.

I just tried installing the pst plugin myself. It turns out it's too old. So I guess you'll have to use readpst.

The following instructions are taken directly from here

Open the file manager and navigate to the directory where your pst archive is located
right-click somewhere in the directory and select "open in terminal"
in the terminal run:

(just copy these 2 commands and paste them into the terminal with Ctrl-Shift-v)

create dir for your exported mail

 mkdir pst-export

export the pst archive

readpst -D -M -b -e -o pst-export name_of_your_archive.pst

Make sure you change name_of_your_archive.pst to the correct file name.

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install the importexport tools
you will be asked to restart thunderbird -> do so
right-click your mail account folder and create a new folder (temporary) where you want your outlook mails to go to.

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right-click the new folder and choose import/export > import all messages from a directory > also from its subdirectories
finally choose the directory where you exported your pst archive to. In this case: pst-export

this will take a while. When it's done you can move the emails to any directory you want. Hope this helps.