With the growing popularity of MS Outlook, people are exporting Thunderbird to Outlook. Here, we will be defining two process for the same: one free, one safe.
Available for multiple platforms, Mozilla Thunderbird is a free open source application that helps in managing emails. It possesses a variety of features which can be further extended with extensions. This makes Thunderbird a popular choice among users, especially the home users. When it comes to organizations and professionals, Thunderbird is just not enough. And that is where MS Outlook comes in. With security details and functionalities surpassing most other email applications, MS Outlook has emerged to be the global leader among the email clients.
So migration from Thunderbird to Outlook PST has now become a common phenomenon. But if you have actually tried to do it, you know exactly how complicated it can be. Without specialized solutions, the chances of failure are too much. You may end up with missing data while managing to waste all your efforts and time with the so called free workaround solutions.
There is no point in giving so much time and effort in methods that disturbs the originality of data and generates incomplete results.
So think hard before you go for any approach:
Opt a specialist application for such purpose. MBOX to Outlook Converter – One that has the ability to perform conversion without exposing a single bit of data to risk factors. What do you get in return? Just some perks which are sure to excite you up:
As far as the steps are considered, all you require to do is:
1. Add the MBOX file/ configured Thunderbird profile directly
2. Preview all the emails and attachments from scanned data
3. Choose from a variety of user-oriented export options
4. Convert them in Outlook PST with complete originality
For detailed steps: https://www.freeviewer.org/guide/mbox-to-pst.html
This is by far the most successful free manual procedure among all that you can find on the internet. All those workarounds involving external applications will give you nothing but headache with a large and complicated procedure. And even after that, the conversion success rate is too low to consider. So let us get right into this method.
1. Open Mozilla Thunderbird application on the local system
2. Now open the mailbox folder(say, Inbox) that contains all your messages to be moved to Outlook
3. Select the emails as per requirement. You can do this one message at a time or in bulk with Ctrl+A
4. Now save the email messages by right-clicking and choosing save as option
5. Afterward, select the folder and export the emails in EML format
6. Once you have the EML files, run MS Outlook application
7. Now, create a new folder in the Outlook program and name it accordingly
8. Then, select all the EML files you exported earlier from Thunderbird
9. Drag and drop all these messages into the newly created folder in MS Outlook
10. Wait for the transfer to complete. The total completion period depends upon the number of messages to be transferred.
11. Finally, all the emails will be moved from Thunderbird to MS Outlook.
This free process even after being better than other workarounds is still far from perfect. The success only defines the email message part. It does not show the sheer amount of time and effort put by the users. And this is just one of the risky traits.
So ultimately the choice is yours to make – a free method with low quality conversion or a specialized tool with high-class migration.
Yes for free! This intuitive utility is available on a free trial basis as well. You can simply download it and export 25 emails from Thunderbird to Outlook easily. Afterwards, just compare the emails before and after conversion to see how effective this tool is.
