How do i export emails to excel?

Question

I am trying to categorize and count emails in Mac Mail.  Is it possible to export emails from Mac Mail into Excel so that I can sort and count based on "sent from" and "date"?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Well, I don't know of any way to do it using Mail or other GUI tools, but it's certainly not impossible with some work in Terminal.  I can easily give you a partial solution. If that's acceptable to you, the following type of commands should help:
Firstly, you need to open Terminal and change directories into your mailbox folder.  The name of this will depend a bit on the account you are using but it should be something like:
cd Library/Mail/V2/POP-username@domain
Then you need to find all the mail files and extract the fields you want:
find . -type f -name \*.emlx -exec egrep "From:|Return-path:|Subject:|Message-ID"  {} \;
At this point to put the fields together in one line with a field separator (I wouldn't recommend a comma because the subject might include a comma) would make that command pretty messy I think. However it shouldn't be too hard to take the output and process it.
Hope that helps get you started.
Ivan