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title: Install Mbox Viewer on Debian using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of Mbox Viewer for on Debian - Read and search
  .mbox mail archives
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/mbox-viewer/debian
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# Install Mbox Viewer on **Debian**

# Mbox Viewer

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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/mbox-viewer/debian#install)

#### Read and search .mbox mail archives

Mbox Viewer is a GTK4 desktop application for reading and searching .mbox
archives.

An .mbox file concatenates every message in a mailbox into one long text
file. Mbox Viewer imports an archive once into a local SQLite database with a
full-text search index, so that messages become individually addressable and
searching across subjects, addresses and message bodies is effectively
instant, even for large archives.

Features:

* Import a single .mbox file, or a folder of them (re-importing is cheap)
* Full-text search over subject, From/To/Cc and bodies (SQLite FTS5)
* Chunked, sortable message browsing
* HTML message rendering via WebKit (plain-text fallback)
* Inline image gallery, plus attachment save/open
* One-click database reset

### Package name

* mbox-viewer

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### License

* GPL-3.0-or-later

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### Last updated

* 5 October 2026 - latest/stable
* 5 October 2026 - latest/edge

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### Websites

* [forgejo.vosjes.cloud](https://forgejo.vosjes.cloud/yarrith/Mailbox_Viewer "https://forgejo.vosjes.cloud/yarrith/Mailbox_Viewer")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/mbox-viewer/debian#report-snap-modal)

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[See more information about mbox-viewer ›](https://snapcraft.io/mbox-viewer)

## Enable snaps on Debian and install Mbox Viewer

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

On Debian 9 (Stretch) and newer, snap can be installed directly from the command line:

```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
```

After this, install the snapd snap in order to get the latest snapd:

```
sudo snap install snapd
```

### Install Mbox Viewer

To install Mbox Viewer, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install mbox-viewer
```

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