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Mbox Viewer

Features

A complete, native MBOX toolkit

Everything you need to open, search, read and export huge email archives on your Mac — without a web app in a window.

Built for scale

Any file size

A streaming parser with a 1 MB buffer opens files from a few KB to 50+ GB without ever loading them into RAM.

Instant re-opens

A binary index with SHA-256 validation makes every re-open take under a second, regardless of size.

Low memory footprint

Even a 50 GB archive stays under 600 MB of RAM thanks to on-demand streaming and an LRU message cache.

Find anything

Powerful search syntax

Use from:, to:, subject:, body:, date:, has:attachment, size:>, OR, negation and exact phrases — or the visual filter sheet.

Gmail labels

Reads Gmail labels straight from Takeout. Browse by label in the sidebar with live message counts.

Conversation threading

The JWZ algorithm groups messages into conversations with visual reply chains up to four levels deep.

Get your data out

Export anywhere

Export to EML, CSV (Excel-ready, UTF-8 with BOM) or plain text, and extract attachments in bulk.

Merge & dedupe MBOX

Combine multiple MBOX files into one, with optional Message-ID deduplication. Export a single label as its own MBOX.

Attachments

View attachments inline, preview with Quick Look (Spacebar), save individually or in bulk, or drag straight to Finder.

Native & private

Truly native macOS

SwiftUI + AppKit. Dark mode, Drag & Drop, Quick Look, Share, Print and full keyboard navigation. No Electron, no Java.

Privacy by design

Everything runs locally. No cloud, no telemetry, no account. Remote images blocked and HTML sanitized by default.

Drag & Drop everywhere

Drop MBOX or EML files onto the app to open them, and drag messages out as .eml or attachments to Finder.

Search syntax at a glance

Combine prefixes, operators and exact phrases to pinpoint any message.

from: from:john@example.com Messages from this sender
to: to:team@ Sent to this address
subject: subject:"quarterly report" Subject contains phrase
body: body:invoice Full-text body search
has:attachment has:attachment Messages with attachments
label: label:Important Gmail label
date: date:2024-03 From a given month
size:> size:>5mb Larger than a size
- -spam Exclude a term
OR from:alice OR from:bob Either condition