Migrate Outlook into Thunderbird?

[Bo Berglund]

On Sun, 9 Jul 2023 16:14:46 -0400, Jon LaBadie <ubu at labadie.us> wrote:

>On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 06:00:01PM +0200, 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?
>>
>>I plan on using Thunderbird both on Windows 10 and Ubuntu desktop...
>>Is the mail store format the same on both platforms?
>>I have used POP3 all these years so the emails are only inside my PST files and
>>not on the server.
>>
>
>I believe ThunderBird on the same pc can import the outlook
>files (mail, contacts, calendar).

Thanks, I did not see this before my last reply to Bret.


Maybe it uses calls to an existing Outlook API to do the migration?
Thus needs to be done on the Outlook PC...

>
>For the ubuntu system TB on the PC can export (or backup)
>to zip files its data and these can be imported by other TBs.

That is good to know! Thanks again!

>
>-- 
>Jon H. LaBadie                  ubu at labadie.us



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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden