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- Opening your Google Takeout mbox file: three methods compared 3 min Compare three ways to open a Google Takeout mbox on convenience, speed and privacy, and pick the approach that fits you.
- Mbox vs eml vs maildir: which email format is best? 7 hr Compare the three popular local email formats and learn when to choose mbox, eml or maildir, and how to open all three safely.
- Getting started with Mbox Viewer 8 hr Install Mbox Viewer by Cloud Captains, drag your email archive into the window and read, sort and search your messages entirely locally on your own device.
- Error codes and troubleshooting in Mbox Viewer 9 hr Every Mbox Viewer error code explained, with concrete steps to resolve each one locally, plus the known browser notes that are not errors.
- Privacy, settings and frequently asked questions 9 hr Everything about Mbox Viewer's privacy guarantees, the settings for themes, contrast, external images, display styles and storage, and answers to the most common questions.
- Searching and filtering in Mbox Viewer 9 hr Find any message in your archive with the search bar, Gmail-style operators, regex, saved searches and filters by date, source file, attachments, stars and tags.
- Exporting emails and building a forensic case file 9 hr Export a selection of messages in bulk to EML, PDF, HTML, CSV or MBOX, or build a password-protected AES-256 case file. Export single messages too, and print-friendly PDFs with a document header.
- Spotting phishing and checking authenticity with the forensic view 9 hr Use the Forensic tab to see whether a message really comes from its sender: SPF, DKIM and DMARC verdicts, a suspicion score on nine signals, SHA-256 and MD5 hashes and the full route with TLS status.