Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your MAIL file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert MAIL to another file type
To convert MAIL emails to another format, you need Micro Focus GroupWise or other Text software.
Convert a file to MAIL
To convert other file formats to the "Email Archive File" file type, you need software like Micro Focus GroupWise or a similar tool.
About MAIL files
A .mail file is a generic extension primarily used to store saved email messages, mailbox archives, or server-generated attachments. Because 'mail' is a broad term, this extension is used by multiple incompatible systems, including Micro Focus GroupWise, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Unix mbox formats. In some developer environments, such as Ruby frameworks using wkhtmltopdf, a .mail file might actually be a generated PDF document or a PNG queue file. The biggest disadvantage of the .mail extension is its ambiguity. Without knowing the origin system, your operating system cannot guess which software to use. An email saved by GroupWise requires a paid enterprise client to open, while a Unix mailbox archive requires specialized server tools like Mailman. Relying on this format for long-term storage is risky because you may lose access to the specific software needed to decode the headers, text encoding, and MIME attachments. To ensure your data remains accessible, you must convert these files to standardized formats. For archiving and legal compliance, convert to PDF. For migrating to another email client, convert to standard EML or MSG. For quick reading in any web browser, convert to HTML. Drop your file here to analyze and convert it securely right in your browser.
Convert.Guru analyzes your MAIL file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted EML, MSG, INLINE_IMAGE_CID, ATTACHMENT1, HT_ and PDF files.
FAQ
If you want to convert MAIL file to PDF, TXT, RTF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, PAGES, TEX, LATEX, MD, MARKDOWN or LOG, you can use Micro Focus GroupWise or similar software from the "Saved Email Message Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert PDF, DOC, ASC, TODO, NFO, MEMO, README, DOCX, JPG, TXT, NOTE or RTF files to MAIL, try Micro Focus GroupWise or another comparable tool in the "Saved Email Message Archive" category.
The MAIL Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our MAIL converter.