Comments on: From Outlook to Thunderbird and Back Again

By: John Doffing

John Doffing — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 05:40:05 +0000

Hi Thomas, I tried the address magic personal edition program. I did not do the conversion for over a month after purchase. Now I wish I hadn’t waited so long. Address magic did a good job converting my emails. The only down side I’ve found is that it puts my many T-Bird address books into one flat Outlook 2010 address book.
As far as I can tell all my saved emails, receipts, etc. are intact after the conversion. It did not take very long to run either (at least on my 6-core AMD Phenom II, ?I think this ASUS mboard has 3G Sata so I guess it’s pretty fast).
I’m used to using Outlook so I prefer it over T-BIrd. I still have Thunderbird installed, just disabled the ISP mail settings, so I can look at the original address books if I need to.
Good program, Thunderbird ought to include it … wait, Thunderbird is free. Guess that wouldn’t work.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:07:15 +0000

That I do not know.

By: Bruce G.

Bruce G. — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:15:15 +0000

This is all great, but what about windows 7 where the OE app does not exist? How do I do the move to Outlook 2010?

By: nana

nana — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 01:12:39 +0000

Thank U Rex. I need the pity. Piles to move, no good way. Thinking I made a HUGE mistake when I went to TB. Not sure about any of the Firefox stuff anymore. Maybe I can just print all (35,000) and have them filed the old fashioned way. It would take LESS TIME!

By: T.T. Adom

T.T. Adom — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:03:19 +0000

For Moving over ThunderBird from Outlook, that way is good way but not a best and perfect way when we come in another machine. I was a Outlook user and decided to move my all emails into ThunderBird. Being as a ThunderBird user, i used same way but was unable to retrieve all emails. Making an online hunt was a single way for me and finally i got a very cost effective Outlook Conversion tool. Its converted my all outlook emails into .eml format. After that Darg and Drop was very easy for me. Anyone can try this tool if he/she want to save cost. Awesome tool, no arguments!!!

By: John Doffing

John Doffing — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:43:34 +0000

Tada ! I haven’t tried it yet, but searching with Bing I found a program called Address Magic Personal Plus at http://www.connectedsw.com that sounds like it should do the trick. It’s on sale now for $19.98. The web site says it will convert the email, folders, and address book. If it works it’s easily worth $20 just to save time.
Has anyone tried Address Magic?

By: problem

problem — Sat, 21 May 2011 19:52:51 +0000

please help me …… i need best 100% working thunderbird to outlook converter … if u know any one please post the link

By: vl

vl — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:38:59 +0000

Aid4Mail Home is able to convert, extract, export, migrate your emails to other email client applications. It supports scripting, the ignoring of duplicates, the usage of email date and content filters.

http://bstdownload.com/reviews/aid4mail-professional-2/

By: BB

BB — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:29:05 +0000

Thank you!!! After a whole bunch of hassle with other options, I did this in less than 5 minutes. Such relief! (Now I just need to link all the imported messages to their appropriate contact records in BCM — but that’s okay…good music will help. )

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 03:57:47 +0000

Found a really easy way to move mail from Thunderbird to Outlook 2010.

First set up a Gmail or some other IMAP account.
Set up the account in Thunderbird and in Outlook 2010, this is why Gmail works great.
Move the saved mail from the Thunderbird saved folders to the Gmail account saved folders.
Once the mail as moved (it might take a while), close Thunderbird, and open Outlook.
Sync the Gmail account in Outlook.
Once the saved mail from Gmail is in Outlook, then move Gmail saved folders to the Outlook personal folders account in the folders you want the saved mail in. This might take some time because the mail as to be downloaded from Gmail in to Outlook.
The move will save the folder structure.
Once the saved mail is in the personal folders, you can then move it anywhere you want in Outlook easily.

This worked great for me, although Outlook did crash 2 times while downloading the files from Gmail.

Hope this helps someone else.

Scott

By: Maria

Maria — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:30:48 +0000

I need to export emails from outlook express on my old computer to thunderbird on new computer. I didn’t have a chance to install thunderbird and transfer mails from OE before my computer crashed. However, I did export emails from OE and saved them on my flash drive they files in .dbx format.
Any way I can import them for thunderbird?

By: Onyx

Onyx — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:55:07 +0000

Thank you for all the suggestions. They helped me with the problem of importing the TB mail messages from a StorageCraft image of the customers old computer HDD into his new PC running Outlook 2007.
BUT I would appreciate guidance on IMPORTING into Outlook Express or Outlook 2007 a Thunderbird Addressbook. You will all now say easy but please note you do not have the ability to run Thunderbird to perform an EXPORT.
To get the mail messages across I installed TB and somehow (blindly) eventually managed to get the mail into a TB profile then using IMapSize and finally MBOX2eml managed to get it all into OE. OE to Outlook 2007 is easy and anyone can do that.

So to summarize:
New XP PC running Outlook 2007, OE and TB Vers 3.04
StorageCraft ShadowProtect Image of the old PC. The TB client vers is unknown!
The mission should you wish to accept it is to get his address book from old TB vers across to Outlook 2007 (eventually)

By: Rex

Rex — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:09:45 +0000

Go to this link.

http://blog.nektra.com/main/2009/04/14/export-messages-and-folders-from-thunderbird-to-outlook-outlook-express/

I pity you though if you have heaps of folders and subfolders…………………………

Does someone from Thunderbird wish to explain WHY they haven’t made an ADD ON that exports messages for Outlook????????? People have been waiting for years and all this non action just proves to me you guys are really not interested in making life easier, just more complicated.

By: Rex

Rex — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:56:10 +0000

Mate, pain in the arse is what it is. It takes hours believe me. Thunderbird should be making an add-on or incorporating an export method that allows you to export to Outlook but it seems a bit of nazism is going on where they don’t want to do this. Fine for importing, absolute crap for exporting. I now fully regret using thunderbird. Don’t get me wrong, i liked thunderbird 2 because the account options were user friendly. Now some smartarse in their development team has decided everyone obviously must use email like them so they took away the option for POP accounts (automatically makes it imap) and if you don’t know how to change it (you have to stop the account setup at wizard) then it really pisses people off. The to top that off the idiots went and changed the storage options and i for the life of me hate the option because it doesn’t allow you to check a box to “delete messages from server” (like in thunderbird 2). Now we have an ambiguous statement in options that say delete messages from local AND server????????????????? (NOT ONE OR THE OTHER) When something is working donkeys then leave it be. Your going down the road of microsoft who love to play around with setting and changing options. Your going to lose alot of people this way and the only person you can blame will be your IDIOT developer who recommended it.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Sun, 30 May 2010 10:54:52 +0000

How can I store thunderbird emails in outlook 2010… I have around 10 GB data in thunderbird account?

Please help if anybody can.

By: webwolfe

webwolfe — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:17:58 +0000

I installed thunderbird 3.0.4. but on setup it doesn’t ask me to import anything. I tried it twice, once with Outlook closed and once with Outlook open. When i use the import function and choose “import everything” thunderbird continues but shows nothing to import from. If i choose import > email it does work import all my outlook mail. Then i ran import once more to import my contacts.
I used outlook 2007 to import from.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:02:04 +0000

I found the free MBOX to EML Converter tool, it works like IMAPSize but also detects the mbox version and headers type. Nevertheless the mbox to eml extractor is WIN32 utility, it can extract files of eml format from mbox mailboxes created by MAC OS X and Linux / Unix email software.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:36:59 +0000

Hi,
I want my email (on my pc) that run under Ms Outlook to be open in my laptop which use Thunderbird. And want that my existing email in thunderbird join with the ex-Ms Outlook that I want to move. Is it possible?

Thanks a lot Thomas

By: Peter Capusotto

Peter Capusotto — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:56:39 +0000

Hi,
I tried the method that you’ve specified and I got a lot of email errors and the need to do it folder by folder is a terrible mess.
Look this tutorial that I think it’s much better way to do the trick:
http://blog.nektra.com/main/2009/04/14/export-messages-and-folders-from-thunderbird-to-outlook-outlook-express/

Enjoy!

By: guest

guest — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:52:23 +0000

Veena hello,

please inform us how you make the import form Outlook2007 to TB successful.

As for the HTML, you may check the properties tab in TB for the specific folders, and make sure the options
“Apply default to all messages in the folder ….. “, for the encoding IS NOT checked, and that you have use the correcto Default Character Encoding (from the same screen, at the pull down menu)

See if that helps, and inform us,
Regards
Panagiotis