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What is a .mbox file?

application/mbox

An MBOX file is a mailbox that stores many email messages concatenated into one plain-text file, each message preceded by a 'From ' separator line. It is the classic Unix mailbox format used by many mail clients for export and archival.

How to use a .mbox file

Use an example MBOX to test mailbox splitting, message boundary detection, thread reconstruction, and import into a mail client or parser.

Convert a .mbox file to another format

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