Regarding email, it is known that it is an important part of our daily routine, whether it is office, home or personal. Everyone needs it nowadays in some form or the other. In this case, email conversion is a common process like MBOX to PST. If you want to migrate MBOX to PST manually then you have know all about it.

What is mbox file?

The MBOX file is one of the most used mail formats in the entire email client world or is said to be the most. Therefore, there are many reasons for migrating an MBOX file to PST. But due to lack of information, the data is not Securely converted resulting in damage to the mailboxes.

Now if you want to manually convert data from MBOX to PST, this post is for you.

How to manually migrate MBOX to Outlook PST?

This manual process is going to be quite simple if you do each step carefully. The MBOX file is the only mail format used in more than 25 email clients, so it may have several methods of conversion process. But I will explain here the two most commonly used process, which will allow you to convert MBOX to PST .

First Manual Process


You are using any MBOX based email client, just import into Mozilla Thunderbird using Import / Export Tool and then follow the below steps.


Phase (A)

  • Create a new Gmail account and then go to the gear icon.
  • Click the "See all settings" option at top of the menu and then select the "Forwarding and POP / IMAP" tab.
  • Go to the IMAP row and enable IMAP and press the save button at the bottom.
  • Now open a new tab and search "Less Secure Apps" then click on the first option related to the Google Account and then ON the button.

Phase (B)

  • Run Mozilla Thunderbird and click on Set up New / Another Account.
  • Fill in the Gmail account detail and press the continue button.
  • Once it is configured, create a new folder under the newly created Gmail account setup. After that drag all emails to a new folder.

Phase (C)

  • Run Microsoft Outlook and Go to file >> info >> Add Account
  • Enter Gmail account address and press advanced option
  • Select IMAP and fill server detail:

Incoming port: 993, Server: imap.gmail.com

Outgoing port: 465, Server: smtp.gmail.com

  • Put the password of Gmail and press connect.
  • If all setting are corrected, you will see “Account successfully added”.
  • Now click on done button and enjoy ....!

Second Manual Process

The restriction of this method is that you can't use on latest MS Outlook versions.

  1. Download, install and configure Eudora email client
  2. Move MBOX file to Eudora default location and change the mail format: ASD.mbox == ASD.mbx (mbox and mbx both are similar data structure)
  3. Open Microsoft Outlook application >> Go to file tab.
  4. Choose import export tool >> Select “import internet mail and address” then press Next button.
  5. Select “Eudora (2x, 3x & 4x) pro and light” option then press next button.
  6. Browse the Eudora location to save the mailbox (You can also check “Remove duplicate email”) and click on next button.
  7. Save the destination where you want to add mailbox and press finish button to initiate the synchronization.

Now you can see the above manual method which helps you to manually migrate MBOX file in Outlook. However, if you need further assistance, I would like to recommend an alternative solution or a third-party solution below.

Alternative Choice

We know that the manual process is a long process, so it is not at all capable of following the entire process. So using a simple and reliable solution, you can easily convert MBOX to PST.

MailsDaddy MBOX to PST converter is a very useful solution that offers converting data not only to PST but to many other mail formats. Using the solution, you can convert single and more MBX data into PST, Office 365, EML etc.


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Closing Word

Here i have clearly described how to manually migration mbox to pst format. Any user who have some technical knowledge easily convert MBOX to PST format, but you want quick method then MailsDaddy MBOX converter is the best solution for you. You can also use the free demo edition first.

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