apple-mail-exporter

You can export Apple Mail messages locally by searching the mail database by keyword, sender, or subject and saving matched emails to a chosen output directory without launching Mail.app.

Yes, searching Apple Mail emails by sender or subject is supported for offline archiving, allowing you to extract specific messages from the local mail database directly to a designated directory.

Migrating mail data between machines is best handled by querying the local Apple Mail database and exporting matched messages to a directory, which can then be transferred to the new machine.

Yes, the Apple Mail exporter supports overriding default Mail directory paths, allowing you to specify custom local database locations during the search and export process.

You can limit exported emails by using the result limits feature, which caps the number of matched messages saved to your output directory during an Apple Mail database search.

Yes, you can use the list-only mode to display matched Apple Mail messages in the local database without exporting them, providing a quick preview before committing to a full export.