Jul 31, 2013

Key factors that lead to MBOX to PST file conversion


Emails are considered as most simplified way of communication because of their speed, security, and robustness. In world of email application, there is lot of email application clients available like Thunderbird, Pocomail, Eudora, Apple Mail, Outlook and many more. Mostly users prefer email client which is easy to handle, free of errors & no need of technical expertise. Let’s discuss these email clients one by one: 
 
Thunderbird Email Application Thunderbird is the mail client designed by Mozilla. Thunderbird email application supports for MBOX file format expanded as mail boxes. These MBOX files maintain all messages associated with user’s profile in a plain text file

Pocomail Email Application: Poco mail was designed by Poco systems to work on Microsoft Windows system. Poco mail used their own scripting method to prevent spam. Pocomail does not provide support for JavaScript. File format supported by Poco mail is .mbx files. Default location for Pocomail files are:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Pocomail\Mail

Eudora Email Application: Eudora mail client is designed to work on Apple Macintosh system as well as on Windows operating system. Additionally Eudora mail client has also support for Palm Operating systems. File format supported by Eudora mail client is MBX files.

Apple Mail Email Application: Apple mail was developed to work as a default email client with Mac OS. In apple mail separate .mbox files are generated to store different email folders. Apple mail does not support for calendars, contacts and Address Book

Outlook Email Application: Ms-Outlook email application is designed by Microsoft. The whole information of user profile along their mail boxes is stored in a PST file. PST is basically known as Personal Storage Table having a limit of 50 GB. Although size limit of PST file is depend upon the Outlook version used by user. PST follows the B-tree structure with 512 bytes nodes and leafs. Storage location of PST file is user’s hard disk. 
 
Most of us choose Outlook as our email application client because of its flexibility & supports all above points. 
 
There are some other reasons that force users to switch from MBOX file format to Outlook file format. Here, are few key points that are enough to explain the reasons behind conversion of MBOX file to PST file

Reasons that make User switch from MBOX file to PST 
 
File Structure: As I explained above all email applications have their own file format. PST file format is easy to understand as compared to other file formats such as MBOX, MBX file etc. Also MS-Outlook is easily available in Office suite form which can be downloadable from the site of Microsoft. MS-Outlook can also be used in both mode i.e. online mode as well as offline mode.

File Locking System: Thunderbird email application is introduced with a feature named as “file locking” feature. Although this feature adds more security to the user’s data but have a disadvantage too. This file locking feature is not compatible with other applications such as Lotus Notes File. To read a MBOX file in safe mode, user must lock the MBOX file as this file show corrupt message in case if file is unlock. This system is not supported by PST file.

Extensive Features: Outlook is bless with vast and extensive features like connectivity with social media profiles, Attachment reminder, User friendly interface, Support for Exchange account and many more features . Facility to create to-do-list and many more advance features that make user switch from MBOX file to PST file.

Saving multimedia file: One more advantage of using PST file is that PST files are capable of saving multimedia file whether this facility is not supported by MBOX files. 
 
PST File is easy to manage: It’s easy to use and store PST files as compared to MBOX files. The main difference lies in their structure as MBOX file is a single file concatenated all messages in form of a string. It becomes tough for user to sort out a particular message while this is possible in PST file because of its flexible file structure.

Change in Work place: One more common reason behind switching from MBOX file format to MS-Outlook mail application is change in work environment. MS-Outlook is common email application used by every organization so it is also consider as a key factor in changing email application client 
 
OS Support: MBOX file format does not support for Windows Operating system. We all are aware of fact that most of us use Windows operating system because of its user friendly interface. 
 
All above explained reasons are quite enough to explain why there is need to perform MBOX to PST. After reading above, user will surely search for an option to convert MBOX file to PST file. Let me aware user there is no direct method to convert MBOX file to PST. To convert MBOX file to PST file, user has to use third party tools. Check this presentation to know more about MBOX to PST file conversion:





 







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