Free mbox software for linux

mboxstats project creates several top-10 lists from a file containing message in mbox-format.
List of top10 lists:
- Top writes
- Top receivers
- Top subjects
- Top ccers
- Top top-level-domain
- Top timezones
- Top organisations
- Top useragents (mailprograms)
- Top month/day-of-month/day-of-week/hour
- Average number of lines per message
- All kinds of per-user statistics
- And much more!
It outputs a formatted text-file or XML output.
Enhancements:
- Added nummer of messages per year

yahoo2mbox is a small Perl script which retrieves all messages from a mailing list archive at Yahoo! Groups (there is a missing copyright sign somewhere here probably). yahoo2mbox stores them into a local file in MBOX which is recognized by all Unix mail readers and good many of other ones.

If you dont know what Yahoo! Groups are, you probably dont need this program. But if you want to search through the existing archive using your favourite MUA instead of Yahoo interface as I did you might like it.

Other interesting features include support for localized and age-restricted Yahoo groups. Unfortunately, automatic address unmangling doesnt work any more (as of December 2003 and probably before) because of a change in Yahoo address presentation algorithm.

MT::Import::Mbox::Importer is a wrapper class for importing a collection of mbox folders using MT::Import::Mbox.

SYNOPSIS

use MT::Import::Config::Importer;

my $mt = MT::Import::Mbox::Importer->new("/path/to/config");
$mt->collect();

# You can also do this :

my $cfg = Config::Simple->new(...);
my $mt = MT::Import::Mbox::Importer->new($cfg);
$mt->collect();

This is a wrapper class for importing a collection of mbox folders into Movable Type using MT::Import::Mbox.

Mailbox Strainer is a Superkaramba widget that examines an arbitrary number of IMAP mailboxes, POP3 mailboxes and local mail folders for new messages. For the latest new messages, the content of a specified header is displayed on the screen. When new messages arrive, Mailbox Strainer emits a notification via KNotify.

You may have serveral instances running such that each one checks its own collection of mailboxes. SpamAssassin may be invoked to detect spam, or message headers modified by external spam checkers can be evaluated. It is also possible to make SpamAssassin learn from specified IMAP or local folders.
Configuration can be done through a graphical interface or manually via a configuration file (an annotated configuration file is supplied).

Mailbox Strainer is written in Perl. Depending on the features you want to use, a number of Perl modules must be installed. In particular, PerlQt will be needed for the configuration dialog. All modules can be found at http://www.cpan.org , consider using the CPAN shell (perl -MCPAN -e shell) for this will automatically resolve dependencies. To find out which modules are missing on your system, invoke module-test.pl . (Hopefully I didnt forget any of them, it has become quite a number.)

The local mail capabilities are those of the Email::Folder::* modules, so they should be able to handle mbox and maildir. Currently, using the spam detection with local mbox folders is _strongly_ discouraged! It is likely to destroy your Emails, see http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.pep/68 for the reason. (A possible workaround is presented in http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.pep/72.) So spam checking is currently disabled for local mailboxes. You can enable it by changing lines 975, 998 and 1081 of perl/mailbox-strainer.pl. Remove "0 &&" from each of those lines.

A few words about password storage: The configuration dialog stores encrypted passwords (of length at least 8) in the configuration file. This is meant as a protection against accidentally displaying the configuration file, but nothing else. Consider this as a parody on proper encryption, even the secret key can be found in the perl scripts.

Mb2md.pl not only converts mailbox files into a Maildir, but also the /var/spool/mail/$USER mailspool file.
mb2md program is smart enough to not transfer a dummy message such as the one UW IMAPD puts at the start of Mbox mailboxes.
You can add your own search terms to the script to make it ignore other forms of dummy first messages.
Mb2md.pl does not only convert mailbox files into a Maildir but also the /var/spool/mail/$USER mailspool file. It is smart enough to not transfer a dummy message such as the UW IMAPD puts at the start of Mbox mailboxes - and you could add your own search terms into the script to make it ignore other forms of dummy first message.
Main features:
- converting the users main mailbox that is referenced by the ENV variable $MAIL
- converting a single mailbox into corresponding maildir
- converting multiple mailboxes in a directory into corresponding maildirs
- recursive operation on a given directory to convert the complete mail storage of one user
- replaces all occurrences of dots (.) in a mailbox name by underscores (_)
- is able to handle spaces in mailbox names
- is able to handle leading/trailing spaces in mailbox names
- converts mbox files in DOS format (CRLF) to Unix file format
- can strip an extension (e.g. ".mbx") from a mailbox name prior to converting
- uses the Content-Length: header iof told to
- removal of dummy message that a couple of IMAP servers (e.g. UW-IMAPD) put at the beginning of a mailbox
- removal of the "From " line that starts every mail in a mailbox
- removal of the special escape character (>) that the MTA puts in front of lines starting with "From " other than the first line
- setting the file date of a converted message according to the date found in the "From " line of the original mail
- setting the flags F,R,S,T (flagged, replied, seen, deleted) on the filename of the converted message according to the flags found in "Status:"/"X-Status:"/"X-Mozilla-Status:"/"X-Evolution:" headers of the original mail
- should work on all *nix-like OS

mairix is a tool for indexing and searching email messages stored in Maildir, MH, or mbox folders. The index contains a map of which words occur in which parts of which messages.
Searches on this index are fast and generate symlinks to the matching messages in a new Maildir or MH folder, or copies of matching messages in an mbox folder, which can be browsed normally in a mail client.
Main features:
- Indexing is fast. It runs incrementally on new messages - any particular message only gets scanned once in the lifetime of the index file.
- The search mode populates a "virtual" maildir (or MH) folder with symlinks which point to the real messages. This folder can be opened as usual in your mail program. (Note, if messages are in mbox folders, copies are made. Similarly if the virtual folder has mbox format, it is filled with copies of the matched messages.)
- The search mode is very fast.
- Indexing and searching works on the basis of words. The index file tabulates which words occur in which parts (particular headers + body) of which messages.
Enhancements:
- A handful of bugs were fixed: crashes in the name/value parser, handling of . and .. in MH folders, broken mbox folders, and indexing when the database only contained a single message.

msgcab is an easy-to-use and extensible mailing list archive system. msgcab provides a built-in mail filter which allows users to track discussions across multiple mailing lists. msgcab can be extended by Ruby plugins.
Main features:
- Installation is easy (actually not needed.)
- Can import mails from typical mailbox formats. (e.g. MH, mbox, Maildir)
- Allows users to keep track of discussion across multiple mailing lists.
- Provides built-in mail filter.
- Can be dynamically extended by Ruby plugins.
- Provides JavaScript based friendly user interface.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes a bug in importing mail messages from standard input and improves thread generation speed.