# Export own messages to MBOX format?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/export-own-messages-to-mbox-format/374643>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [July 17, 2025, 1:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/export-own-messages-to-mbox-format/374643 "2025-07-17T13:24:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![mnalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@mnalis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mnalis)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2026, 12:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/export-own-messages-to-mbox-format/374643/4 "2026-01-16T00:02:17Z")

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Anyway, since user export was useless to me otherwise, I’ve written a perl script to convert `user_archive.csv` to MBOX format: [GitHub - mnalis/discourse\_archive\_to\_mbox: Converts to Discourse user\_archive.csv to Mailbox file · GitHub](https://github.com/mnalis/discourse_archive_to_mbox)

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