Give it a few moments to process the file, and when it's finished you can click on the Install Now button xpi file (ImportExportTools NG add-on) you downloaded in step one and click Open.
The zip will be sent via your selected delievery method (by default, you will get an email with a link to download the zip) - it may not be instant, the more emails you are downloading, the longer it will take to create your archiveįor more information on creating achives, click here.Do not change the file type, click "Create Archive".Check the labels that tag the emails you want to download.If you want to download only certain messages, click "All Mail".Scroll down to "Mail", click on the gray X to the right.Click "Select None" (Thunderbird can only store your emails, it cannot store this other data).If you only want to download select message(s), start in your Google Mail by applying a label, for example "messages to download," to only the message(s) you want to download.
If you are transfering messages to someone else, for example the successor of a project, send the recipient the MBOX file so he or she can access it (If the MBOX file is larger than 25MB, you cannot email it, but you can share it through Google Drive). You can then use Thunderbird (or Apple Mail on a Mac) to access messages and attachments in the MBOX file and transfer them to another account, if you wish. Note: If you have a large number of messages, this operation could take a long time.You can do a one-time transfer of all Google Mail messages or just those in certain label(s) using Google Takeout, which downloads your messages as an MBOX file. Go to the local directory where the EML files are stored and drag & drop them into Outlook.Create a folder in MS Outlook to contain the email messages, then select it to make it the active folder.Importing EML files into Outlook is pretty easy: All messages will be saved in the EML format, which Outlook can recognize. In Thunderbird, use “Ctrl+A” to select all messages in the mbox folder, right click the selected messages, click “Save as…”, then select a directory to save the selected messages. Restart thunderbird, and you should see that all messages in the mbox file are now in your Local Folders list.Change the folder to the directory where the mbox file resides. Right click Local Folders, select Settings, click the Browse... button beside the Message Storage > Local directory text field., then click Next.Īfter the account has been set up, you will see there is a Local Folders structure on the left panel in Thunderbird. Enter a fake name and Email address in the dialog that pops up, then click Next.Click the Newsgroups link in the Thunderbird > Accounts section.You can simply click Cancel to close the dialog. On the first launch, Thunderbird will ask you to set up an Email account.You can create a fake account just for the conversion process: You will need to create a Thunderbird account so that the mbox file can be imported, although this doesn’t need to be a real email account. Note: The following operations are based on Thunderbird version 68.
Install Thunderbird on your Windows Computerĭownload Thunderbird from, then install it on your computer. One way around this is to use another mail client, like Thunderbird, to convert Mbox files to a format compatible with Microsoft Outlook. The Mbox format can be opened by Apple Mail and other mail clients, but unfortunately, Microsoft Outlook cannot open Mbox files directly on Windows. In CubeBackup, Gmail messages are exported as Mbox files (similar to Google Takeout exports).
How to open an Mbox file in Microsoft Outlook.