mail-core - Apple Mail Local Data Technical Reference
Technical reference for reading Apple Mail data locally including architecture and parsing
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Updated: 2026-03-26Typical Inputs
Typical Outputs
What this skill does
- read SQLite database
- parse emlx files
- query messages
- locate mail files
- filter mailboxes
Inputs
- SQLite database file
- emlx files
- ROWID identifiers
Outputs
- query results
- parsed email body text
- attachment filenames
Requirements
- macOS
- Apple Mail installed
- Bash access
- Python 3
