Migrate Outlook into Thunderbird?

[Bret Busby]

On 10/7/23 02:52, Bo Berglund wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

Hello.

No, I have not migrated email messages (and filters, configurations, 
etc), from any "brand" MUA, to a different one; what I have done, in 
each occasion, is simply discontinued use of one, and, set up, and used 
instead, another one.

Which is why my current alpine message repository does not include 
previous messages from Star Office, Netscape, SeaMonkey, previous (more 
than twenty years ago) use of Thunderbird, and, my use of pine, from 
back to about thirty years ago (before the Internet, when I had access 
through a node on the ARPAnet).

You had asked "Where can I ask such questions and be on topic?", so, I 
had pointed you to the Thunderbird email list of which I am aware (and 
subscribed to); migration from one MUA to another, may be able to be 
done, but, I have no experience of it.

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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