Re: awk or sed program to convert mbox files to HTML
s/&/\&/g
s/</\</g
s/>/\>/g
s/"/\"/g
1s/^/<HTML><PRE>/
$s/$/<\/PRE><\/HTML>/
Won't be pretty, but will do what you requested.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Does anybody here know of an AWK or sed program to convert mbox files to HTML?
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> My google (well, ddg) fu has not been very helpful -- I've turned up proprietary programs to do that, most of which run on Windows :-(
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> I need to have the source code as I will need to modify the conversion in some special ways.
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> I guess I could use something other than AWK or sed, but I'm reluctant to use (and learn) some other language (including things like Perl, C[++], or Python, although I think I'd like the syntax of Python the best, just wish it was compiled instead of interpreted (P-code, iiuc)).
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> I know that maildir is the currently favored approach for mail storage, but I have well over 100 MB of emails (or pseudo emails) stored in mbox files, and want to convert them for easy viewing on the Internet (by anyone).
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> Thanks!
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