An Efficient MBOX to Outlook Converter Tool for Windows System

MS Outlook is one of the mostly used platform among organizations foe emailing purpose and inbuilt MS Office suite applications that other email clients does not have. Other Email clients like Mozilla Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Entourage uses MBOX file format for storing their data. In order access MBOX files in Outlook, users need to convert the MBOX file to Outlook-supported data files. The article will be discussing about ways for easy conversion of MBOX to Outlook files.

Need for Conversion
Migration of MBOX to Outlook is opted by users of MBOX supported email clients like Thunderbird because Outlook provides a secure enterprise Email-client option with cross program functionality. Outlook is safer than Thunderbird as PST file associated with an Outlook account cannot be configured on other system unless it has been previously removed from the existing system. Outlook also associates with Exchange Server while working offline while Thunderbird does not have any link with the Exchange Server.

How to convert MBOX file to Outlook
Some of the ways to convert MBOX files to PST file are as follows:

- Manual Method
There exists no direct method for converting MBOX files to Outlook PST files, but the possible workaround is exporting Thunderbird mails to Outlook, which is done by using drag and drop of the EML files from Thunderbird and opening these EML files in Outlook. Limitations of manual procedure are broken images, Loss of SMTP headers and is time consuming.

- Third-Party Application
Since the above method does not give satisfactory results, users can use a third party application, MBOX Converter that helps in flawless conversion of multiple MBOX files to Outlook PST/EML and other file formats. The tool allows multiple MBOX files to be merged in single PST file that can be accessed in any MS Outlook versions. Each emails are migrated to the PST file keeping all the Meta-data of the mails intact after the conversion. Outlook installation is not necessary for the migration process of MBOX to Outlook PST file. Another unique feature of the software is that it allows auto-detection of Email clients supporting MBOX file.