plainfolder → Mail
Open a mailbox or a single message
Open a whole mailbox or a single message, find what you need, pull out the attachments and save it in a format you can use. All of it runs in your browser.
No server processing
No account
No daily limits
What it does
ReadsMbox — Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Google Takeout
EML — a single message
MSG — a message saved from Outlook
winmail.dat — the container Outlook wraps attachments in
PST — a whole Outlook mailbox file
OST — the offline copy Outlook keeps on disk
EMLX — a message from Apple Mail
ZIP — an archive with messages inside
GZ — a compressed mbox
TGZ / TAR.GZ — the shape Google Takeout hands out
Maildir — a folder with one file per message
EML — a single message
MSG — a message saved from Outlook
winmail.dat — the container Outlook wraps attachments in
PST — a whole Outlook mailbox file
OST — the offline copy Outlook keeps on disk
EMLX — a message from Apple Mail
ZIP — an archive with messages inside
GZ — a compressed mbox
TGZ / TAR.GZ — the shape Google Takeout hands out
Maildir — a folder with one file per message
WritesCSV — a table of messages for Excel
XLSX — a real Excel workbook
ZIP — every attachment in one archive
EML — one file per message
MBOX — a single archive
PDF — through the browser print dialog
HTML — one page with every message
TXT — plain readable text
JSON — for scripts and data work
XLSX — a real Excel workbook
ZIP — every attachment in one archive
EML — one file per message
MBOX — a single archive
PDF — through the browser print dialog
HTML — one page with every message
TXT — plain readable text
JSON — for scripts and data work
Operationssearch, filters, duplicates, archive overview, attachment extraction
Open a file
Open a PST file without OutlookOpen an OST file without Outlook or the original accountOpen an MSG file without OutlookOpen an EML file in your browserOpen an MBOX file without importing it anywhereOpen a Google Takeout mail archiveOpen an EMLX file without a MacOpen winmail.dat and get the attachments out
Conversions
MSG→PDFMSG→CSVPST→CSVPST→PDFPST→XLSXMSG→XLSXMSG→EMLPST→EMLPST→TXTMSG→HTMLMBOX→CSVMBOX→PDFEML→PDFEML→CSVPST→MBOXEML→XLSXMBOX→EMLGZ→CSVEML→MBOXWINMAIL→ZIPMBOX→XLSXZIP→CSVOST→MBOXMAILDIR→MBOXEMLX→MBOXEMLX→EMLOST→EMLMSG→MBOXOST→CSVOST→PDFMBOX→ZIPWINMAIL→PDFWINMAIL→XLSXEML→HTMLEMLX→PDFMBOX→TXTTAKEOUT→CSVEML→TXTMSG→TXTMBOX→HTML
What converts to what
Everything on the left opens here, and each one can be saved as any of the formats on the right. A combination does not need a page of its own to work: open the file, then pick the format you want out of it.
| Open | Save it as |
|---|---|
| MBOX | CSV XLSX ZIP EML PDF HTML TXT JSON |
| EML | CSV XLSX ZIP MBOX PDF HTML TXT JSON |
| MSG | CSV XLSX ZIP EML MBOX PDF HTML TXT JSON |
| winmail.dat | CSV XLSX ZIP EML MBOX PDF HTML TXT JSON |
| PST | CSV XLSX ZIP EML MBOX PDF HTML TXT JSON |
| OST | CSV XLSX ZIP EML MBOX PDF HTML TXT JSON |
| EMLX | CSV XLSX ZIP EML MBOX PDF HTML TXT JSON |
| ZIP | CSV XLSX EML MBOX PDF HTML TXT JSON |
| GZ | CSV XLSX ZIP EML MBOX PDF HTML TXT JSON |
| TGZ / Takeout | CSV XLSX ZIP EML MBOX PDF HTML TXT JSON |
| MAILDIR | CSV XLSX ZIP EML MBOX PDF HTML TXT JSON |
Outlook formats
MSG, PST and OST are read here: a saved message, a whole mailbox file and the offline copy Outlook keeps on disk. Reading only — nothing is written back into an Outlook file.