Apple Mail

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File Format
Name Apple Mail
Ontology
Extension(s) .emlx
Released 2001

Apple Mail is the default email software included in all version of MacOS since 10.0.[1][2] With the release of MacOSX Tiger (10.4), the EMLX format was introduced.

File Information

EMLX files are stored in the Users home Library/Mail folder and an Eml file with the addition of a byte count at the beginning and a Plist at the end.[3] The Plist contains flags[4] indicating read status, replied, and other attributes.[5]
EMLX files can be converted to stand-alone Eml files.[6]

References

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Mail
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS#Software_compatibility
  3. https://pypi.org/project/emlx/
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20080921093825/https://jwz.livejournal.com/505711.html
  5. https://web.archive.org/web/20080719165435/http://www.jwz.org/hacks/emlx.pl
  6. https://github.com/qqilihq/partial-emlx-converter
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