Migrate Outlook into Thunderbird?

[Bo Berglund]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2023 02:22:28 +0800, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:

>On 10/7/23 00:00, Bo Berglund wrote:
>> I know this is not an Ubuntu question but I hope that someone here can point me
>> in the right direction...
>> 
>> I want to get off of Microsoft Outlook email and use for instance Thunderbird
>> instead (should work on both Windows and Ubuntu).
>> What I am trying to find facts about is the conversion of the old email store I
>> have (massive since 1998 and migrated between Outlook versions to currently
>> Outlook 2019).
>> 
>> So can it be done? (When I checked some years back it could not...)
>> Where can I ask such questions and be on topic?
>> 
>
>https://groups.io/g/ThunderbirdEmail
>
>Personally, I primarily use Thunderbird like a webmail facility; 
>monitoring incoming email,and, responding to (and, composing) messages, 
>as needed/wanted, and, I use alpine (previously known as pine) for 
>downloading and storing messages, and, dealing with, including 
>responding to, historical messages, as I found pine/alpine to be the 
>most powerful email application, dealing with about 20GB of email, going 
>back about 20 years, involving hundreds of filters, some (many) of 
>which, having hundreds of filter field values.
>

Hi Bret,
did you ever migrate to ThunderBird from Outlook?

I have a ton of old emails in my Outlook PST files and the fact that I have not
yet found a way to migrate them to some non-proprietary format acceptable to
Linux mail clients has forced me to continue using Outlook 2019...
And Windows too.


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden