Aid4Mail Converter
Collect email from dozens of mailbox formats and email services. Fast and accurate conversion at your fingertips.
What Do You Want to Convert?
Collect and convert emails accurately, reliably, and quickly with Aid4Mail Converter. It’s an ideal solution for preparing mail ingestion into archival, e-discovery, and forensics tools. All popular mail services and file formats are supported.
Aid4Mail Converter can tackle almost any format
Aid4Mail integrates a very robust implementation of the IMAP protocol. This gives you the ability to collect email from, or convert it to, a large number of service providers including Gmail, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Outlook.com, Yahoo! Mail, AOL, GMX, and iCloud.
In addition, you can access any email account managed by popular IMAP server software like Dovecot, Courier, and Zimbra. Aid4Mail also includes support for the ProtonMail IMAP Bridge application.
You have the option to access Gmail accounts, as source or target, securely via the Google API. And Exchange accounts (Microsoft 365, Hotmail, …), as target only, through Microsoft’s Graph API. Both of these methods rely on secure OAuth 2 authentication.
Aid4Mail can extract mail from many popular file formats:
- Generic mbox files (mboxo and mboxrd variants)
- Mozilla Thunderbird and SeaMonkey
- Google Takeout mbox files
- Maildir and EML files
- EMLX files from Apple Mail
- PST, OST, OLM and MSG Outlook files
In addition to collecting mail from these formats, Aid4Mail can convert to many of them.
These are output formats, with PDF being the most popular. It is used by law firms and professionals in the fields of eDiscovery, auditing, and litigation. Aid4Mail can create archivable PDF/A, and press-ready PDF/X, as well as standard PDF documents. The message text is fully searchable, and you can configure page headers and footers to include page numbering, Bates stamps, email metadata, and custom text.
HTML is a useful review format because files can be opened in any web browser. Aid4Mail allows you to customize the data included, and can generate an index that enables the HTML files to be viewed as a mail app. This displays a list of all available emails along with the content of the selected item. You can filter emails by folder, or by keywords in the date, subject, sender, and recipient fields. Attachments are stored separately in their native format, relative to the HTML file, and accessible from a link in the email message.
CSV (comma-separated values) and TSV (tab-separated values) files are useful for viewing data in Excel or for importing into a database. Aid4Mail lets you configure their content, including the message texts and metadata. If you choose to include email attachments, they are stored separately (in their native format) with their file location added to the CSV or TSV file.
The XML format is typically used for long-term archiving. It is a popular solution with national libraries. As with the CSV and TSV formats, you can choose which metadata to include in the XML file. Attachments are stored separately in their native format, and links to them are inserted into the XML.
JSON files produced by Aid4Mail are optimized for use with AI tools. Simply prepare your AI prompt for email analysis and attach the JSON file, avoiding the need to set up an AI API. As with the other export formats, you can customize the content of the JSON file.
Common use cases:
- Convert Microsoft OLM and OST files to PST
- Export emails and their attachments to PDF
- Collect mail from cloud-based accounts and save them to PST
- Convert Outlook files to generic formats like EML and mbox
- Merge Outlook MSG files into a PST file
- Collect email data in a CSV file for viewing in Excel
- Export mail to a JSON file that can be used by an AI analysis tool
Compare Aid4Mail with Competing Products
Aid4Mail is the industry leader in email conversion
| Aid4Mail Converter | Competing products | |
|---|---|---|
| High-speed email collection and conversion | slower and less accurate | |
| Reliably extract emails from corrupted mbox files | ||
| Remove journaling envelope and add its metadata to the original email | ||
| Reorganize and group emails by sender, recipient, date or other criteria | ||
| Fast incremental-processing for all source formats | not common | |
| Export email data to archival and database formats such as CSV, TSV, XML, JSON, PDF, Plain text, and HTML (includes an HTML viewer) | not common |
Industry Leader in Email Processing
Convert local email formats 6-10x faster than the competition with Aid4Mail Converter.
Accurately capture email messages, attachments, and metadata without loss of information.
Aid4Mail is an on-premises tool, ensuring secure processing at all times.
Why Choose Aid4Mail?
We have been developing software since 1990 and launched Aid4Mail in 2005. Aid4Mail is Swiss-made and built in-house, putting us in total control of its code. That’s how we’re able to optimize speed, accuracy, and security more than any competitor.
IT and Legal departments around the globe are using Aid4Mail. Clients include:
- Fortune 500 companies
- Defense agencies
- Top law firms
- Major banks
- Prestigious universities
Join the ranks of world-class professionals that trust Aid4Mail for all of their email conversion requirements.
Compare Aid4Mail Editions
Aid4Mail is available in three different editions: Converter, Investigator, and Enterprise.
Aid4Mail Investigator includes everything in Converter, and adds powerful email filtering (including native), AI integration, MIME file carving, Bates stamping, and Python scripting. It also adds support for Google Vault exports.
Aid4Mail Enterprise includes all of the Investigator features, adding support for the migration and reorganization of enormous archival exports from Mimecast and Proofpoint. The Enterprise edition can also be installed on a server or run from a USB flash drive.
| Aid4Mail Converter | Aid4Mail Investigator | Aid4Mail Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Convert Mainstream Formats | |||
| Process Attachments | |||
| 6-10x Faster than Competitors | |||
| Capture Email Metadata | |||
| Process Attachments | |||
| Process Cloud Attachments | |||
| Discover Hidden Emails | |||
| Recover Double-Deleted Emails | |||
| Process Shared Accounts | |||
| Advanced Search and Filtering | |||
| AI Filtering, Classification, and Analysis | |||
| Convert Google Vault exports | |||
| Convert email archive exports from: – Mimecast – Proofpoint |
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| Install on a Server | |||
| Use from a USB Flash Drive |
For more information, please refer to the in-depth edition comparison and downloadable (PDF) feature comparison table on our website.
Flexible Licensing
Aid4Mail licenses are available as monthly or yearly subscriptions. Every license enables you to process an unlimited number of mail accounts and files, whether in-house or external.
If you need to run Aid4Mail on a computer that doesn’t allow internet access, simply contact us for a free offline-activation code. Need Aid4Mail on a server? The Enterprise edition enables this.