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EML to text

Pull the readable text out of a saved email, decoding quoted-printable and base64 bodies.

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Open EML to text and you get an answer straight away, with no account to create. You will find it under Email, with EML to HTML and EML viewer for the neighbouring cases.

How to use it

  1. Open the tool — no signup or install needed.
  2. Enter your input or adjust the available options.
  3. Get your result instantly, then copy or download it.

Frequently asked questions

What is EML to text?

Pull the readable text out of a saved email, decoding quoted-printable and base64 bodies.

When would I actually use this?

Reading a message exported from a mailbox you no longer have open, pulling the attachments out of one, and turning an mbox export — one long file holding a whole folder — back into messages you can open one at a time.

What is the most common mistake?

Reading a raw header as if it were text. Any header may be encoded, so a subject with accents arrives as base64 and shows as gibberish taken literally. The matching trap is in the body: a line that happens to begin "From " is not a message boundary, and treating it as one cuts the message in half without changing the message count.

How is EML to text different from EML to HTML?

They sit next to each other but answer different questions: EML to HTML is the one to open when you need it to save the HTML part of an email as a standalone page you can open in a browser. Pick whichever matches what you're starting from — both are free.

Is there a tool for the next step?

EML viewer is the closest one after this: Open a saved email and read it — sender, date, subject and body — with no mail client.

Where do the figures come from?

Messages are parsed against the mail and MIME specifications, in the browser, so nothing is sent anywhere — which matters more for mail than for most files. The mbox separator is matched on its full shape, sender and date together, rather than on the two words it starts with.

Further reading

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