What is MBOX File Extension?
Overview
Table of Contents
ToggleIt is a plain text file holding email messages as 7-bit ASCII text. It also holds attachments but in an encoded format. It is widely used to organize messages in a single text file. The starting message body holds “From” and at the bottom, it is blank.
- mboxo is a prime format using the constant string instead of email address.
- mboxrd is one of the variations of MBOX,
- mboxcl is the mailbox format used by Unix ‘system V’ mailboxes.
Category
It belongs to the database file category.
Supportive Apps
A number of email clients support MBOX. According to a reliable source. It supports more than 20 desktop based email clients.
Thunderbird
Entourage
Eudora
Mulbery
SeaMonkey
Evolution
Apple Mail
Spicebird and much more
MIME Type
text/x-mailbox
Location
The location of email client is depended on the type of email client you are operating it.
Evolution Mail: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\.evolution\mail’
SeaMonkey: C:\Documents and settings\Administrator\ApplicationData\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\nz8lvw59.default\Mail.
Netscape: C:\Documents and settings\Administrator\ApplicationData\Mozilla\Profiles\default\2yv6fh2e.slt\Mail.
Apple Mail: /User/Library/Mail/[account]/INBOX.mbox/Messages/
Thebat: C:\Users\\App Data\Roaming\The Bat\Mail\profile folder
PocoMail: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\PocoMail\Mail.
Mozilla Thunderbird: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\
Entourage 2008: C/Users/user_name/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2008 Identities/Main Identity
Mulberry: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Cyrusoft\Mulberry\Mailboxes
How to open or view MBOX File Extension
The MBOX is a Mail Box file using by various open source programs, Hence, the file extension is accessed by all apps, it is operating on.
There are some free and paid third-party apps that also support the file extension.