How do I Open an MBOX File as Text? Informative Guide

Summary:- As we know, MBOX is widely used file format used for storing complete email message. Most often, people are started looking to open MBOX file as text. To accomplish tasks with full integrity, we have discussed manual as well as experts’ recommended automated solution to complete tasks with all integrity intact. Let’ start the blogpost by knowing the overview of MBOX as well as TXT file format.

MBOX or mailbox is a file format used to store complete mailbox data in a single MBOX file. Also, it is supported by almost every email client like Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Eudora and much more. Moreover, it contains multiple email messages concatenated together separated by a delimiter.

Text or Notepad is a plain text file format used to store the information without any formatting. In Notepad file, we can store text, numbers, etc. Also, we cannot add any type of advanced multimedia attachments like images, audio, video, hyperlinks and more. Moreover, won’t need any high storage capacity device in order to open, save and send text file to anyone.

Primary Reasons to Open MBOX File as Text

Multiple features of text file format compels user in order to switch their data from mailbox to Notepad with all attributes.

• Notepad or TXT file can be easily opened or edited on any device without needed any specialized software.

• After conversion of mailbox file to text file format ensures easy access of data and manipulate the content whenever need.

• Text file are lightweight in version, so that you can easily share notepad content to anywhere without worrying about storage,etc.

• After saving all your mailbox files to Notepad ensures simple and efficient method for backing up data.

• Notepad files can be easily searched using text search tools allowing easy to retrieve email data from a MBOX file.

• You can easily integrate TXT file to various word processing platforms for analysis and manipulation in data.

Way to Save MBOX File as Text

You can easily save your mailbox data to Notepad using Thunderbird as manual solution and secondly experts’ recommended automated solution to complete tasks with all integrity intact.

Method 2. Manual Solution as Thunderbird

• Download & launch the Thunderbird application

• Configure email client as per your choice

• Install ImportExportTool ng add-on in Thunderbird

• In the next step, you can manually import MBOX to Thunderbird

• Open specific email in Thunderbird

• Navigate to More>>Save as option, and select.txt as file type

• Browse destination and save MBOX file as text

Limitations of Above Method

• With the help of this process, you can export one MBOX file at a time.

• This is time-consuming and more error prone method.

Method 2. Automated Solution to Transfer MBOX File to TXT

Considering the situation above, we cannot export all data in batch. To get rid of this situation, we have discussed experts’ recommended automated solution by BitRecover MBOX Converter where you can download all email data within a few clicks. Also, you can perform selective backup of foler/subfolder. Moreover, you have access to smart filter option in the software, where you can download data based on selected filters.

Prime Features of Automated Solution

• This tool offers you an option to ignore Gmail label to exclude labels during Google Takeout mailbox conversion process.

• Using this automated tool, you can preserve all email data during and after conversion.

• Convert MBOX to PST, HTML, PDF and 15+ other file formats.

• You can convert your mailbox data to Thunderbird, Eudora, Apple Mail and all other major email clients.

• It provides the facility to migrate selective data based on folder/subfolders.

• You can take the demo version of the software to know the overall working.

Procedure to Save Mailbox data to Notepad using Automated Solution

• Download & launch the wizard.

• Select *.mbox with Add file/folder options

• Choose saving format as TXT

• Set destination location to save MBOX file as text

• Finally, click on convert button to start MBOX conversion

Key Takeaways

In this blogpost we have seen, we cannot export bulk amount of mailbox data using manual method. To accomplish tasks with utmost security, we have discussed experts’ recommended automated solution to open MBOX file as text with all metadata intact. Moreover, before purchasing the software you can take the demo version of software.

I'm Robert William associated with BitRecover Software since last 10 years working in the domain of Email Recovery, Data Forensics, Cloud Migration, etc.