{"id":205,"date":"2021-01-20T13:45:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T13:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.instantdatacare.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2021-01-21T13:02:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T13:02:14","slug":"how-to-convert-thunderbird-to-outlook-pst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.instantdatacare.com\/blog\/how-to-convert-thunderbird-to-outlook-pst\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Convert Thunderbird to Outlook PST?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mozilla Thunderbird is an open-source emailing platform that is easily available on the internet. Any user can easily make use of this application for emailing application. But for more security and advance features the expert choice for emailing service is MS Outlook. Because of this reason, most users want to switch from Thunderbird to Outlook but they are unable to make this process. Here is this blog we will talk about the methods to Convert Thunderbird to Outlook PST.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Manual method to transfer emails from Thunderbird to Outlook PST<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3>Step 1: Extract emails from Thunderbird<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol type=\"1\"><li>Launch&nbsp;<strong>Mozilla Thunderbird<\/strong><\/li><li>Select the required email or entire email by pressing <strong>Ctrl+A<\/strong>&nbsp;keys.<\/li><li>Right-click on the selected emails, and choose the&nbsp;<strong>Save As<\/strong>&nbsp;option.<\/li><li>A <strong>Save As<\/strong>&nbsp;dialog box will appear on your screen, from this window choose the folder where you want to save the EML files then click&nbsp;on the <strong>Save<\/strong> button. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3>Step 2: Transfer EML file in Windows Live Mail<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol type=\"1\"><li>Open <strong>Windows Live Mail<\/strong>&nbsp;and select create a folder or an existing folder.<\/li><li>Now&nbsp;open the folder&nbsp;of EML files that we exported from Thunderbird.<\/li><li>Import these EML files in the Windows Live mail application one by one. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3>Step 3: Export&nbsp;<strong>Emails&nbsp;<\/strong>from WLM to Outlook PST<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol type=\"1\"><li>Start the <strong>Windows Live Mail<\/strong> application.<\/li><li>Click&nbsp;on <strong>File<\/strong>&nbsp;&gt;&gt;&nbsp;<strong>Export email &gt;&gt; Email messages.<\/strong><\/li><li>Now a <strong>Windows Live Mail Export<\/strong>&nbsp;wizard will appear on your screen from there select&nbsp;the <strong>Microsoft Exchange<\/strong>&nbsp;option and click&nbsp;<strong>Next.<\/strong><\/li><li>Choose the folder that you need to export and click on <strong>Ok<\/strong><\/li><li>From the <strong>Outlook Profile<\/strong>&nbsp;dialog box select the profile name and click on OK<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>After this you see that all your email items of Thunderbird is now in MS Outlook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Automated tool to Convert Thunderbird to Outlook PST<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>All these manual methods are supportive of a limited period and even have many drawbacks. So, it is recommended to use an automated tool like- <strong>eSoftTools <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esofttools.com\/mozilla-thunderbird-to-pst-converter.html\">Thunderbird to PST converter<\/a> tool<\/strong>. This tool has offered a clean graphical user interface and an interactive design so, the conversion of Thunderbird to Outlook became easier. You just need to select the required folders and select the conversion option and then your file will be automatically converted to Outlook supported format i.e PST.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>How to Convert Thunderbird to Outlook PST with eSoftTools?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Download the <strong>eSoftTools <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esofttools.com\/thunderbird-to-outlook-converter.html\">Thunderbird to Outlook PST Converter<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li><li>Get it installed on your computer and open it.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esofttools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/thunderbird-main-screen.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Click on Add file\/folder button to open next window<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esofttools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/thunderbir-2.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>After you will see three options:-<br>1) Select MBOX file<br>2) Select MBOX folder<br>3) Auto Load Thunderbird profile<br><br>for convenience choose the option Auto Load Thunderbird profile and click on <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/li><li>Now the software will automatically load all data from your Thunderbird profile.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esofttools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/thunderbird-4.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>After this select the required folders or email items and simply click on <strong>Convert MBOX<\/strong>.<\/li><li>Select conversion option as <strong>Single PST for all Mailbox<\/strong> and choose the destination path to store the newly created file and start the conversion process by clicking on Convert.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esofttools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/thunderbird-convert-pst.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now simply import this PST file in Outlook to access the Thunderbird profile data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As known by the question, there are multiple ways to convert thunderbird to outlook pst. But coming to the manual method, the files may lose important databases or if they are oversized files, then it may crash down. Regardless of these drawbacks, it is asked to use an automated tool like <strong>eSoftTools <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esofttools.com\/thunderbird-to-outlook-converter.html\">Thunderbird to Outlook Converter<\/a> Software<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla Thunderbird is an open-source emailing platform that is easily available on the internet. Any user can easily make use of this application for emailing application. But for more security and advance features the expert choice for emailing service is MS Outlook. Because of this reason, most users want to switch from Thunderbird to Outlook<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instantdatacare.com\/blog\/how-to-convert-thunderbird-to-outlook-pst\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantdatacare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantdatacare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantdatacare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantdatacare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantdatacare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantdatacare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantdatacare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantdatacare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantdatacare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantdatacare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantdatacare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}