Dear friends,
Emails are so important to people today, so I intend to make it available on all the platform: Windows, MAC OSX, Linux… Unfortunately, my company uses Outlook to manage emails, but not all of us can use it. So, I have to move to Thunderbird - a free, cross platform email client. My problem is how to move my old email to Thunderbird? Anybody faces this situation? Please help!
Thank you for your consideration!
Hoc Nguyen Triet from Vietnam.
You should be able to export from Outlook and import that to Thunderbird
On 2015-07-25 04:36, nthkmf wrote:
>
> Dear friends,
>
> Emails are so important to people today, so I intend to make it
> available on all the platform: Windows, MAC OSX, Linux… Unfortunately,
> my company uses Outlook to manage emails, but not all of us can use it.
> So, I have to move to Thunderbird - a free, cross platform email client.
> My problem is how to move my old email to Thunderbird? Anybody faces
> this situation? Please help!
There are two ways of doing it.
One, in a Windows computer that has both Outlook and Thunderbird
installed, you can try in Thunderbird to import email. But the last time
I tried was a decade ago, and I used Netscape, which at the time was
commercial, but “gratis”. Netscape, and I hope Thunderbird does the
same, accessed Outlook stores by using the Outlook DLLs, so import was
perfect.
Mind, it may be possible that the main inbox is encrypted and not
accessible. It happened to me using Exchange: the inbox I could not
transfer, only the auxiliary folders. I only lost the few recent emails.
The other method is to upload the emails using Outlook to any imap
server, and then retrieve them from the same server using Thunderbird.
This method works with any client, and any operating system, and across
different computers. And it works perfectly.
As you have to port several clients, it would make sense you create a
local imap server, even if temporary, using dovecot, for instance. Email
transfer on a local network will run fast, and protects privacy.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
Thank you gogalthorp, I did it 
Thank you very much, robin_listas! Your help are so great, and as you said, it works perfectly with my IMAP email I will ask my up line for considering create a local imap server for this. Again, thank you and have a G9! :good:
According to my experience you should utilize MailProPlus Thunderbird to Outlook Migration Tool. This software can export your Thunderbird Files in seven different file types. You should try it.
For more Info: - http://www.mailproplus.com/email-migration/thunderbird/outlook.html
PST and MBOX both are different file formats. If you want to access your Outlook mails into Thunderbird the converting their file formats is very important. However, I have discussed a method by which user can import MS Outlook messages into Thunderbird.
To import the mails from MS Outlook to Thunderbird, you need to configure your mail account as IMAP (or you can create a new one with Gmail) and forward all your messages to Inbox Folders in that. Then you can download and archive them into Thunderbird from the remote mail server.
If you want to export the Contacts from MS Outlook to Thunderbird - Export the Outlook contacts to CSV and import them to the Thunderbird address book.
You can also use libpst to convert an Outlook PST file to MBOX format (which can then be easily imported by Thunderbird).
Cris
To move all your emails from PST(Microsoft Outlook) to Thunderbird you will be requiring a converter to convert all your emails. PST Extractor Pro is one of the such converter which helps you to convert PST to MBOX, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Entourage, RGE and EML file format. It help you in bringing all the solution for migrating different files format under one converter. Along with the emails it also convert contacts, calendars, etc. to provide better migration of all the data.
For more info: http://www.pstextractorpro.com
Hi,
I found KTools PST Converter from Google search engine.
This software was very helpful. I have 17 GB of PST file that easily exported all mail data from Outlook PST to MBOX format.
After that, I imported all mbox files to Thunderbird.
Reference link: http://www.ktoolssoftware.com/pst-converter.html
Visit here: https://storify.com/Abrienne/how-to-export-outlook-emails-to-thunderbird
Know how you can move PST file to Thunderbird. Here you get the 3 ways to export your Outlook PST to Thunderbird.
Good Luck!
Manual method requires both Outlook and Thunderbird to be installed in your system, which is not always possible. If you are only having PST files of Microsoft Outlook and want to move them into Thunderbird, then you have to convert your PST files into MBOX format. And for that you will need a conversion tool that will convert Outlook emails to MBOX without any data loss. One such tool that I know is PST to MBOX Exporter that helped me a lot in converting my PST files to MBOX format. You can also try it yourself by downloading its demo version. To know more : |https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Export-Outlook-to-f493ab13|
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