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Pre-scan folder names. Shorten manually or use a tool that truncates from the middle, not the end. Pitfall 4: Corrupt From_ Lines Real example: A marketing email with From: "From The Desk Of" <ceo@spam.com> – the From at line start tricks naive parsers into splitting the email.

Use a tool that validates MIME parsing. Test with a known email containing .pdf , .jpg , and .eml attachments. Pitfall 2: Date/Time Corruption Why: MBOX lacks a standard timestamp field. Tools often rely on the From line’s timestamp (which is delivery time, not sent time). Outlook shows wrong sent dates. convert mbox to pst

import mailbox from pypst import PSTMessage, PSTFile mbox = mailbox.mbox('inbox.mbox') pst = PSTFile('output.pst', 'My PST File') Pre-scan folder names

pypst is incomplete (no attachments, no folder nesting, limited Unicode). Real-world emails break it. Use a tool that validates MIME parsing