Open MBOX files and Gmail Takeout mail

MailTrove opens MBOX mailboxes on your PC: the file Google Takeout gives you, and the ones Thunderbird and Apple Mail keep and export.

Open your Gmail Takeout

  1. At takeout.google.com, choose Mail and download the export.
  2. Unzip it. The mail is one .mbox file.
  3. Get MailTrove from the Microsoft Store, choose File > Open and pick the .mbox file, or drag it onto the window.

Gmail labels appear as folders. An email with several labels appears once: under Inbox, Sent or Drafts if it’s there, otherwise under its first label of your own, otherwise under All Mail.

Thunderbird and Apple Mail

Thunderbird keeps each folder as an MBOX file, and Apple Mail exports mailboxes as MBOX. MailTrove opens either, large mailboxes included. To open many at once, choose File > Open Folder.

Read, search and keep it

  • Read every email with its attachments, with pictures from the sender blocked until you load them.
  • Search every word, the text in attachments included, with operators like from:, has:attachment and after:2015.
  • Group replies into conversations.
  • Export folders or search results to EML files, one MBOX file or PDFs, or save just the attachments.

Free to start

The free version lists every email and reads the 10 newest in each folder, and searches subjects and senders. The full version reads everything and adds full search, conversations and export, for $29.99 once (plus any tax), not a subscription. Your mailbox is read on your PC and never uploaded. See pricing.

Get MailTrove

Free from the Microsoft Store, for Windows 10 or later. A Mac version is coming to the Mac App Store.

Get it from the Microsoft Store

Other files MailTrove opens: PST and OST files, OLM files, MSG and EML files. Questions? See support.