.mbox Email
How to open a .mbox file
Unix Mailbox
Concatenated-message mailboxes from Eudora, Netscape Mail, Thunderbird and Apple Mail exports.
- Full name
- Unix Mailbox
- Made by
- Unix / Netscape / Thunderbird / Eudora
- Era
- 1970s-present
- Family
- Also seen as
- .mbx, .mbs, .eudora
- Converts to
- eml
- Detection
- Recognised from the file's bytes, even if renamed
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What survives the conversion
Each message becomes a standard .eml file.
Other ways to open .mbox files
- Thunderbird
- Apple Mail
Related email formats
- .msgOutlook Message1997-present
- .pstOutlook Personal Folders1997-present
- .dbxOutlook Express Mail Folder1997-2006
- .emlEmail Message (RFC 822)1982-present