“Want solution to get rid of from the conversion of MS Outlook to Thunderbird efficiently. Recently, I have bought a Windows operating system and download Mozilla Thunderbird as an email application. Before, Mozilla Thunderbird I am using, MS Outlook into my local system. So, I want to copy emails from Outlook to Thunderbird account at any cost and without losing any kind of data. I have already searched many solution or forums sites and get out that there are so many techniques, I tried a few but no one gives me a sufficient output. I am wasting my beneficial time so, please suggest me an instant and effective solution to solve my problem successfully”.
In this article, I am going to describe the best techniques to Export Outlook Emails to Thunderbird. SpecyTech software avails you with online conversion tool to convert PST to MBOX. But here I will describe you the best manual methods to export/import Outlook mails to Thunderbird.
Brief about Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird
Let’s start with brief knowledge about MS outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird. And we will move ahead and learn to convert Outlook mails to Thunderbird.
Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager that is available as party of Microsoft’s Office suite. One of the most common and powerful email client application. Many organizations use MS Outlook in combination with Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SharePoint to maintain calendars, contacts, emails and etc. MS Outlook was first included with all editions of Windows up to Windows XP. It facilitates multiple functionalities to their users. But, sometimes Outlook users’ needs to migrate from Outlook top Thunderbird. It is also a desktop-based email client application and developed by Mozilla. Mainly, a user wants to perform migration because Mozilla Thunderbird being cross-platform, and simply run on another operating system. And free and open source application.
Manual Method to Migrate Outlook Mails to Thunderbird
As the manual method is very tricky and you must need to follow each and every step carefully. If any of the mentioned steps skipped or executed in an abnormal manner then it may lead to important data disaster. When the data get lost then you will never be able to get back again. So be careful and attentive where needed.
Important Note: – Please take backup of Outlook PST files before proceeding with the manual way.
Step-by-step Guide to Convert Outlook PST to MBOX Thunderbird
Solution#1. Export Outlook Emails to Thunderbird on Single System.
- Press the Start option, then Go to Default Programs >> Set Outlook your default program. By hit it off on the Set this program as default.
- Open Mozilla Thunderbird and click on the Tools then click Import/Export Menu.
- Choose the radio option which open next to Mail then click ‘Next’. Choose Outlook from the given list and press ‘Next’.
- Click on Finish to done the import process.
Again repeat the procedure for converting other PST file like Address book, Contacts etc. Now Set Thunderbird as your Default Program.
Solution#2. Export MS Outlook to Thunderbird by Google take out
This solution explains you to setup Gmail account in Outlook and Export all your mails from Outlook mail to your Gmail account. Then import PST file to Thunderbird MBOX format. For that, launch your Outlook then to implement Outlook to Thunderbird conversion by Google Takeout, you necessity to add your Gmail account to Outlook. Go and follow Step by Step solution to reaches successful conversion.
- Go to Menu bar>> Click on File of MS Outlook
- Then, press the “Add Account” which will you want to open a new windows
- Give the details such as Username, Email ID and Password
- After that, open your Gmail Account and Click on Settings option
- Click on Forwarding and POP/IMAP and choose Enable IMAP > Save the changes.
Note: By executing these action do Open your Gmail Online and Turn on the Access for secure apps
- Go to your MS Outlook account
- If the process is completed click Ok.
- Now, all your Gmail have been configured to Outlook. After that, Copy or Drag and drop all your Outlook Emails into Gmail account.
- Now, sing in your Gmail account using email id and password.
- Open Google takeout.
- Then, press create an archive of mails, search items, tasks messages etc. that is linked to your account.
- Your copy of files has been mailed to on Gmail Account. Now, exposed the zip folder that has been downloaded from Gmail.
- Now, before opening the Thunderbird Application, Download the Add-on ExportImportTool and open Thunderbird application.
- Select Application Menu>>Tools>>Add-ons and select “Install Add-on from File“. And Browse to your Download folder. Install it and “Relaunch” Thunderbird.
- Go to Tools>> ImportExportTools >>Import MBOX file. Then, it will import Outlook PST files in Thunderbird as MBOX file format
- Browse for the MBOX file (Browse in Folder Downloads\takeout-257879jik\Takeout\Mail) and click on Open option to open PST in Thunderbird
- Thunderbird will import PST files to MBOX. It may provide a name to the folder by adding a suffix. Therefore, you can now access your exported Outlook PST files in Thunderbird.
Using Manual method to copy emails from Outlook to Thunderbird, I cannot surety you with successfully conversion. Sometimes this method fails. And the failure of this process may damage your Outlook PST files. For this, you can try a utility to overcome your damaged. Use SpecyTech PST to MBOX Converter Tool.