Free tool

Export your mailbox addresses to CSV

Headers only, never the content of your messages. Free, whatever the size of your mailbox.

The mailbox to export from
Advanced settings (IMAP)

Usually detected automatically; otherwise check with your mailbox provider.

Credentials encrypted (libsodium) for the duration of the operation, erased as soon as it ends. CSV kept for 48 h at most.

Headers only, never message bodies
Credentials erased as soon as the export ends
Hosted in France

How it works

  1. Enter the credentials of the mailbox to scan — address, password (or app password) and IMAP server settings.
  2. The export starts right away — no volume to approve, no payment: this tool is free with no strings attached.
  3. MailSync reads your message headers — From, To, Cc and the date, folder by folder, without ever downloading a message body.
  4. Addresses are grouped together — one row per address, with the most frequent display name, the received/sent counters and the date of your last exchange.
  5. Download your CSV file — ready for Excel, LibreOffice or an address-book import; available for 48 hours.

Five columns: address, display name, messages received, messages sent, last exchange. Rows are sorted from the most active correspondent to the least, which puts the people who matter at the top and leaves one-off addresses at the bottom of the file.

Fast by design: because only headers are read, a mailbox with tens of thousands of messages is processed without downloading its gigabytes of content. That's also what lets this tool be free with no volume limit.

Use cases

  • Rebuilding a lost address book — your exchange history already holds every real contact you have: the export lays them out, ready to be imported again.
  • Taking your contacts along when you change address — before closing a mailbox, get the list of the people you corresponded with, so you can tell them your new address.
  • Filtering before an import — the counters tell a regular correspondent from a one-off address at a glance, so you only import what matters.
  • Spotting senders worth filtering — an address with hundreds of messages received and none sent is almost always a newsletter or a notification bot.
  • Reconnecting after a long gap — the "last exchange" column shows immediately who the conversation stopped with, and how long ago.

What this tool doesn't do

  • The export works over IMAP only: mailboxes reachable solely through POP3, or through a closed proprietary Exchange connector, cannot be scanned.
  • The tool does not read your address book (CardDAV): it rebuilds the list from your message headers. A contact you saved but never exchanged with will therefore not appear.
  • The CSV holds the address and the display name, nothing more: no phone number, no postal address, no photo — that information isn't in message headers.
  • Trash, spam and drafts folders are skipped. That's deliberate: counting the senders of your spam would fill the file with throwaway addresses, and a draft was never sent to anyone.
  • The file stays downloadable for 48 hours after the export finishes, then it's permanently deleted from our servers.
  • On a mailbox with tens of thousands of distinct addresses, the export stops at a cap of 50,000 addresses and tells you so on the tracking page. That cap is the same for everyone.

Frequently asked questions

What exactly is in the CSV file? +

One row per address, with five columns: the email address, the display name that person uses most often, how many messages you received from them, how many you sent them, and the date of your last exchange. Rows are sorted from the most active correspondent to the least.

Is the content of my emails read? +

No, never. The tool only downloads the technical message headers — From, To, Cc and the date. No message body and no attachment is ever downloaded: that's what makes this tool both free and fast, even on a very large mailbox.

How are received and sent messages counted? +

In your incoming folders, each message's sender (From) increments the "messages received" column. In your sent folder, each recipient (To and Cc) increments the "messages sent" column. Trash, spam and drafts folders are skipped: their senders aren't contacts, and a draft was never sent.

Does the file open correctly in Excel? +

Yes. The CSV is UTF-8 with a BOM and uses the semicolon as its separator: exactly what Excel expects in Europe, so a double-click is enough — correct accents, properly separated columns. It also opens as-is in LibreOffice, Google Sheets and Numbers. Dates use the ISO format (2026-01-31), with no day/month ambiguity.

Can I import these contacts into an address book? +

Yes, through the CSV import of your contacts tool (Google Contacts, Outlook, a CRM…): at import time you map which column is the address and which is the name. The counting columns are mostly there to help you filter beforehand: keep regular correspondents, leave out addresses seen only once.

Is my mailbox changed? +

No. The connection is read-only: no message is deleted, moved, or even marked as read.

Is this tool really free? +

Yes, with no volume limit and no account required. It only reads headers, so the processing cost is low — there's no reason to charge for it.

Are my credentials kept? +

No. Your IMAP credentials are encrypted for the whole duration of the export, then erased as soon as it finishes. The CSV file itself stays downloadable for 48 hours, then it's permanently deleted from our servers.

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