Aid4Mail can quickly and accurately convert MBOX files to a PST file without a hassle. Aid4Mail will preserve the entire email including the header data, body and all email attachments. Aid4Mail can also preserve the folder structure if you have multiple MBOX files from an email account.

Aid4Mail is fully Unicode-compatible and preserves more crucial data, visible and hidden, after conversion than any of its competitors.

Visible data:

• To, From, Date and Subject fields
• Status information (Read, Replied, Starred, etc.)
• Message text
• Message formatting
• Diacritical marks / accented characters (like é, ô and ç)
• Non-Latin characters (for example ??)
• Embedded images and other media
• Attachments and their filenames
• Folder/label hierarchy

Hidden data:

• Metadata in the email header
• Server relay information
• Digital signing

Aid4Mail integrates a sophisticated mbox parser that is used to extract emails from mbox files. It is able to handle a large variety of mbox and MIME format errors that can be found within mbox files. As a result, Aid4Mail can find emails that other products either miss or incorrectly merge with the preceding message. This means there is almost no data loss when using Aid4Mail for the conversion of mbox files.

Aid4Mail also provides additional options to customize the output of the emails in the PST file. Some of those options include:

• Ability to customize the folder structure of the emails when converting to the PST file
• Limit the size of the PST file being created. If the limit is reached, a new PST file is incremented and remaining emails are converted to the new PST file
• Create a new base folder in the PST file where all the contents of the MBOX file will be converted to.
• If you need to add emails to an existing PST file, Aid4Mail can append or add emails from an MBOX file to a PST file you already have.
• Filtering options to select only the folders you need to convert from the MBOX file. Of course if you need to convert all the emails from the MBOX file (even hidden folders inside the MBOX file), Aid4Mail has you covered as well.

Aid4Mail provides you with the option to convert MBOX to PST without Outlook being installed on the machine. By default, Aid4Mail will use Microsoft Outlook as it is more reliable and we are experts with Outlook and the underlying MAPI technology. If you don’t have MS Outlook installed on the machine, simply use our alternate method in the Aid4Mail GUI for the MBOX to PST file conversion.

Aid4Mail has no issues when converting large MBOX files. Aid4Mail thrives on being able to provide a solution on the market that can process any size MBOX files. If you you are already want more information on an Aid4Mail license that can convert MBOX files to PST, take a look at our Aid4Mail Converter license here.

With the Aid4Mail Investigator license, you have access to Aid4Mail’s searching capabilities. You can complete searches based on dates, keywords or even through custom scripts via python. Aid4Mail can search entire emails including the header, body and all attachments from every email. Aid4Mail can even search files contained in zipped files (that are attachments).

Also with the Investigator license, you have the ability to process multiple MBOX files concurrently at the same time to speed up a project that might entail converting multiple MBOX files to PST files. We have many clients that use Aid4Mail to process through hundreds of MBOX files per month. It’s a huge advantage for them to have the flexibility and full power of Aid4Mail to process multiple different MBOX files concurrently to different PST files. You can find more information about our Investigator license here.

Although this article covers converting MBOX to PST, Aid4Mail is far more than just an MBOX to PST conversion program. Aid4Mail supports many additional file formats like OST, OLM, PST, MSG, Outlook Profile, EML, Apple Mail, Maildir, Google Takeout, Google Vault exports, Mimecast exports, IMAP accounts and more. You can also convert MBOX files to other file types like MSG, EML, PST, CSV, TSV, XML, HTML and Plain text. You can find more information here.

Let’s now go through a step by step tutorial in Aid4Mail to convert an MBOX file to a PST file.

1. Under “Source” select “MBOX file (generic mailbox)” and then specify the location of your MBOX file(s). 
2. Under “Target” select “PST file” and then provide the location of where you want to save the PST file that Aid4Mail will create. 
3. Next you can specify a specific folder inside the PST file where the MBOX file data will be saved by adding the folder name under “Location in PST file”. For this example, Aid4Mail is set to save the emails and folder structure in the “Jim mbox emails” folder in the PST file. -If you need to limit the size of the PST file being created, use the “Limit PST file size:” option. I set mine to 50GB as that is the default size set by Microsoft Outlook.Limit PST file size
4. Finally under “Filter”, you can use the “Folder selection” tab to select only the folders (MBOX files) you want to convert. As you can see, my parent folder contains three MBOX files. I have only selected the Jim folder to process. 
5. After all your settings are set to your preference, click on “Run” to convert the MBOX file to an Outlook PST file.

After Aid4Mail finishes with the conversion, you will have a full report on all the emails and folders processed. Under the Progress log tab, you will find a full report on the settings used and see every email that passed through Aid4Mail during the conversion. If there were any errors, Aid4Mail will alert you of these under the Error log tab. To see the emails and folder structure in the PST file, simply import the PST file in Outlook.

Here are some benefits of using Aid4Mail to convert MBOX files to PST format:

• Aid4Mail is an on-premises program meaning all the data you process from an MBOX file is completed locally on your machine. Also convert as many MBOX files or any other email client data as you need! All Aid4Mail licenses allow you to process as much mail data as you need during the validity period. Some of our clients process Terabytes of data every month!
• Aid4Mail is developed in-house and we use as little 3rd party code as possible. This means that if you have any issues, we have control over our program and are able to troubleshoot quickly. Some of our competitors use almost entirely 3rd party code or DLLs. This makes it difficult for them to resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Our customer support is the best and we make sure to get back to you as quickly as possible to make sure you accomplish your task.
• As we want potential clients to have full confidence in purchasing and using Aid4Mail, we provide a free trial version. You can use the trial version to run your own tests on your MBOX Outlook data files. You can download our trial version here.
• With over 20 years of expertise in the field of email processing, we have positioned Aid4Mail as a high quality and reliable tool for exporting MBOX to PST file conversions.

For information on Aid4Mail licensing options and pricing, click here.

Important clients around the world are relying on our software. These include the US government and law enforcement agencies, top law firms, national libraries, prestigious universities, major banks, and international NGOs. Currently half of the Fortune 50 companies are Aid4Mail clients and the numbers keep growing. For confidentiality reasons, we do not disclose their names.

We at Fookes Software believe that we provide our clients with the best mbox to pst converter software program on the market. We understand that it can be hard to know which tool to choose as there are multiple other mbox to pst converter tools on the market. Please make sure you test accordingly and validate the results before making a decision.

If you have questions about processing MBOX files or how to use Aid4Mail, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us. We are always happy to assist and make sure you have all the information you need to move forward and accomplish your tasks.

If you experience any issues, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

If you would like to buy an Aid4Mail license, please visit the Aid4Mail website.