Mbox-short.txt - Download

The most widely used version in tutorials (e.g., Google's Python class) is the one from the Python source repository (Option 1). That file contains several real email samples and is ideal for learning how to parse mbox files.

From test@example.com Tue Apr 20 10:00:00 2021 From: sender@example.com To: receiver@example.com Subject: Test email 1 This is the first test message. It has two lines.

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python/cpython/main/Lib/test/test_email/data/mbox_short.txt Or if you prefer using wget : mbox-short.txt download

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python/cpython/main/Lib/test/test_email/data/mbox_short.txt Then save the page as mbox-short.txt .

(most common)

From another@example.com Tue Apr 20 10:05:00 2021 From: someone@example.com To: you@example.com Subject: Second email

Just a quick note.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python/cpython/main/Lib/test/test_email/data/mbox_short.txt