Office 2010 to Thunderbird migration

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2013-12
  • Yonathan Klijnsma

    I've been reading a lot of things on the internet about this but can't get it to work. Also tried the Mozilla forums, did not get anything useful out of that.

    What I could do is importing the PST files, but the plugin for that is outdated.. Which makes it a bit of a problem. I would also like to migrate all my account settings with this as well, I have 8 accounts running in outlook.

    Does anyone know a simple way of doing this? And no, tools -> import doesn't work. Gives me errors, tried all of them.

    • Answers
  • Randolph West

    Use an IMAP server and convert your mail that way.

    You can download some open-source ones that will install on your machine. (I used dovecot on my Mac, so I can't suggest any for Windows). Then very slowly (I do 50 at a time), you move your Outlook mail to an account you've set up on the IMAP server.

    Then from Thunderbird, grab all those emails from the same IMAP account.

    It preserves almost everything, including attachments. I found the compatibility far superior to any conversion or import / export methods.

    Good luck. If you have a large PST file, you need a lot of patience but it's worth it in the end.


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  • user3183

    trying to import my outlook.pst into thunderbird, but it seems my computer has to have outlook running on the computer to do this import.

    I have the outlook.pst file, can't I just point thunderbird to that file somehow?


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  • harrymc

    Use Thunderbird PST Import plugin :

    Thunderbird PST Import plugin was created to allow importing Outlook PST and select which email folder to import. Thunderbird PST Import plugin is licensed under GPL (uses libpst).

    Some more information is here : Import .pst files.
    Unfortunately, some part of the described proceeding requires Outlook to be installed (you may even install an evaluation version and uninstall it afterward).

  • seanyboy

    Unfortunately not. They both use different file formats.

    Also, I think you need Outlook to convert .pst files to a different format.

  • Al Everett

    simply go to tools > import> select outlook and import whatever you want.

    just install outlook import your .pst data file there and then do the above.