Cut Mbox The only thing this program does, is to copy the contents of an mbox file to a number of smaller mbox files, each holding one message. These output files will be in the same location and have the same file name as the source mbox file, but with an undersore, a sequence number and the extension .mbx added. It is strongly suggested not to run this program on files in the Thunderbird profile, but only on copies in other locations as Thunderbird will pick up these files.