mbox-to-html

Convert mbox email archives to beautiful, readable HTML files.

Features

• 📧 Converts mbox files to clean, styled HTML
• 📁 Process single files or entire directories recursively
• 🎨 Beautiful responsive design with CSS styling
• 📋 Expandable email headers
• ⚡ Streaming parser for handling large mbox files
• 🔄 Skip existing files or force overwrite

Installation

Using bunx (recommended)

No installation needed! Just run:

bunx mbox-to-html <path-to-mbox>

Global installation

bun install -g mbox-to-html

Using npm/npx

npx mbox-to-html <path-to-mbox>

Usage

Convert a single mbox file

bunx mbox-to-html ./emails.mbox

This creates emails.mbox.html in the same directory.

Convert all mbox files in a directory

bunx mbox-to-html ./mail-archive/

Recursively finds and converts all .mbox files.

Force overwrite existing files

bunx mbox-to-html ./emails.mbox --force

Options

| Option | Alias | Description | |--------|-------|-------------| | --force | -f | Overwrite existing HTML files | | --help | -h | Show help message | | --version | -v | Show version number |

Programmatic Usage

You can also use mbox-to-html as a library:

import { convertMbox } from 'mbox-to-html';

// Convert a single file
await convertMbox('./emails.mbox');

// Convert with options
await convertMbox('./mail-archive/', { force: true });

Output

The generated HTML includes:

• Email subject, sender, and date
• Full email body (HTML or plain text)
• Collapsible detailed headers section
• Responsive design that works on mobile and desktop
• Clean, modern styling

Requirements

• Bun runtime (for best performance)
• Or Node.js 18+

License

MIT © Ozan Turksever