Windows MBox Viewer Reviews

fantastic tool! awesome, advanced features!

Excellent. Very fast ! 2 GB .mbox file.

Solved my problem very quickly. Thanks go to the fellow who posted the YouTube video.

Really glad to find and try this alpha-version. It takes some getting used to, but so far its a great simple tool for searching and reviewing .mbox files, particularly Gmail takeouts. Some suggestions/wants for future consideration: - extract/display unique ID in csv output; - or if print individual emails to html/pdf, enable the unique filename of the pdf or html to part of the csv output, possibly with their filepath (so they can be located or linked to); - similar for attachments to emails - output their unique ID or hash, and path in csv output; - enable email attachment metadata and text to also be part of csv output. I know that is probably asking alot. Thanks for the effort so far. Not a coder but happy to help/test. I sent a small donation by paypal.

Saved my day. Very good application.

I am very pleased with Windows MBox Viewer. The gmail takeout archives which I am accessing with MBox Viewer is over 15 GB and covers a span of about 17 years and includes many attachments, photos, videos, etc. I've used the search functions and various screen configurations, sorting and printing features, and all work flawlessly. I watched the short tutorial on this website, which I recommend -- it is very helpful, although MBox Viewer is very easy and user friendly and likely can be used without viewing the video. But the video has several useful tips. My gmail archives took about 10 hours to download. After downloading, I copied it onto a separate hard drive, along with MBox Viewer, which allowed me to plug the hard drive via USB into a different computer without installing MBox or the archives onto the other computer, which is quite handy. Very pleased.

I didn't have SourceForge account before I downloaded this application. I made an account exclusively because I felt like this app was amazing enough to merit my leaving a positive review. I had an .mbox file which, for some unknown reason, no application I used was able to open. Whether it be because of its size or anything else, it wasn't working. Any website or error I looked at suggested the file might have been corrupted. Then, I downloaded this app, and miraculously, it worked flawlessly. The file was a .mbox file which contained about four years' worth of emails, many of which were very important, some for personal reasons, some for professional. The account to which these emails are linked has since been deleted for reasons outside my control, and with this app, I'm still able to see all the emails in their original form. Tremendously, tremendously helpful. Invaluable.

This tool does everything I need. It provides search, the ability to save the results, the ability to merge multiple mbox files and eliminate duplicates. I've paid for and tried a number of other tools, but this is the best.

Very handy utility. I have a lot of archives from Yahoo Groups and Google and this lets me go through those old emails easily. There are always going to be features I wish for (drag-and-drop folders) but that doesn't diminish the usefulness of this utility.

Wow , this is actually a quality program

Excellent!

exported from google all emails with a label opened the folder using this tool works! Brilliant!! Very useful with filters and great support from the author.

It works perfectly for me. I was able to open an mbox file of over 200MB. I am running windows 10 on a lenovo laptop. I use this program to open mboxes that someone gave me at archive dot org.

This is easy to use and is helping me edit my gmail account. Although you can search for a range of dates, I wish you could simply order the entire file and I have sent a Twitter to the author just now.

Love the utility. It missed out on one star as it is missing Open File option, it only has Open Folder. This is missing both in GUI & commandline. I was intending to use it an an external viewer for WinSCP where I'd need a command invocation something like [utility fullpath] <winscp temporary filename>.

ripl, the problem you complained about with large .mbox files is solved! MBox Viewer is a very nice program! The author, Enea Mansutti, has updated it (January 21, 2015) to work with very large .mbox files. It now works well for me on 64-bit Windows 7 to read a 14.9 GB .mbox file containing my saved gmail archive (which I downloaded from Google Takeout). Of course, the initial load of a 14.9 GB .mbox file takes a long time, but that's unavoidable, because the .mbox file format has no index. So any program which reads it has to read the entire file, to build an in-memory index. Enea also enhanced the main display, to show "to" addresses (instead of just "from" addresses), and he added an "attachment" indicator. He also apparently incorporated some performance enhancements. He also enhanced the search function considerably. The search can now still search entire message bodies as before (i.e., search the entire .mbox file, which is slow!), but you now also have the option of searching just the message headers, which are kept in in memory, so that's fast! Also, you can constrain the search to include just a desired range of dates, which is very useful. Enea made all these improvements just because I emailed him and told him that the old version didn't work on my giant .mbox file, and asked him whether there was an updated version. What a nice guy!

It's unpossible to open large MBOX files, it shows empty folder, no error message etc. It can not show correctly spec.characters (Czech), it can not to find Czech words in messages. There is not a possibility to sort messages (date, from...)

The product allows you to view and MBOX in a decently formatted fashion. The only suggestion would be to allow EXPORTS of Selected Email or ALL EMAIL to TXT or PRINT directly a particular Email. But in-lieu of importing into Thunderbird, this is a nice quick solution.. THANKS!

MBox viewer works perfect for archiving project IMAP folders as MBox-files. Missing a file open widget with input field of the path for copy-paste.

This app is great. We have tons of emails from clients we need to keep (with attachments etc). We can safely archive our IMAP emails with a click-drag from the Thunderbird folder, and delete them from our server (without ever needing to reinstate the folder simply to check an old email, or grab an old PDF). It might not be much, but it's actually been a life-saver. Thanks :)