mail-core - Apple Mail Technical Reference
Technical knowledge for reading Apple Mail data locally on macOS
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Updated: 2026-03-26Capabilities
Typical Inputs
Typical Outputs
What this skill does
- access SQLite database
- query mail messages
- locate emlx files
- parse email content
- extract message metadata
Inputs
- Mail database path
- message ROWID
- account UUID
Outputs
- message metadata
- database query results
- emlx file paths
- message body text
- attachment filenames
Requirements
- macOS with Apple Mail
- Bash tool access
- SQLite3 support
- Python3
