BitRecover MBOX Viewer

With the aid of BitRecover MBOX Viewer, you can open MBOX files to read email messages. This is a common file format supported by many email clients, including Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Entourage, and Qualcomm Eudora.

Unless you have an email client that supports MBOX, you can resort to this lightweight and portable application, since it can be saved in your collection of portable utilities and fired up whenever you need to open MBOX files without having to install complicated software that requires email account configuration. On the other hand, you should know that cache files are created on the disk whenever you open MBOX files with this app, in order to load content faster when reopening files.

The interface of BitRecover MBOX Viewer is user-friendly, made from a large window that gives you the possibility to open MBOX messages from individual files or folders containing many files. Those with any extension other than MBOX are ignored by the app so no errors should pop because of this. The original formatting of the emails should be preserved.

You can view all messages available in the MBOX file, along with the contents of the messages, sender and receiver, date of the sent message, and subject. It's also possible to run a search if there are large amounts of text that have to be browsed. When it comes to settings, you can make the search case sensitive, find whole words only, look into the entire raw message or only in the displayed headers, as well as set a date range to filter the search results.

You can refresh content, switch to a more suitable date format as well as hide the status bar. Keyboard shortcuts are supported. More importantly, MBOX files can be converted to EML format while attachments can be saved in EML format by just double-clicking an MBOX entry from the list. To access the files, you just have to select the "View EML" option from the "View" menu, which opens the MBOX location in Windows Explorer.

All aspects considered, BitRecover MBOX Viewer proves to be a practical tool for opening MBOX files to read messages. It's small-sized, portable, and worked smoothly on Windows 10 during our evaluation. Also, it can save MBOX messages and attachments in EML format.