MailToolbox

I've needed many times to move some of my emails to another place, and it's been a hard time every time.

Searching on the Web, I found many small tools in Python that can read emails from only one source storage and write to only one email storage.

So I've decided to build a tool that can move emails from any source to any target. I want to make it easy to use with a nice interface with PyQt.

When to use MailToolboxStudio

MailToolboxStudio will be handy in the following situations :

• You are changing ISP and want to move your mail from the old ISP's IMAP server to the new one
• You have multiple mail storages and want to centralize it in a single storage, either locally or in the cloud
• You want to split your mail into folders based on mail sender, date or other categories (TODO)
• You want to extract attachments from mails (TODO)
• You want to extract mail informations as lists : mail addresses, dates, subjects, size (TODO)
• Your company forces you to use a mail reader, and you want to use another one (MailToolboxStudio will not help you in sending mail)
• You want to backup all you mails

What MailToolboxStudio can't do

MailToolboxStudio is not designed to :

• Synchronize 2 or more mail storages
• View mail
• Send or receive mail

Current status

MailToolboxStudio currently can :

• Read mail from Lotus Notes on Windows (the initial need I had)
• Read mail from Outlook PST files on Windows
• Read and write from Maildir, Mbox and Thunderbird mail storages, using standard Python library
• Read and write from IMAP servers, also with SSL/TLS
• For GMail IMAP access you have to enable IMAP and create an application password
• Edit, save and load projects (passwords are saved in clear text)
• Some mail transformations are working, but need some more testing

MailToolBoxRunner can run a project in the background.

Next steps

I intend to work in order on :

• Making more mail transformations work
• Outlook PST files write