Migrate Outlook into Thunderbird?

[Keith]

On 7/10/23 2:12 AM, Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2023 03:01:38 +0800, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
> 

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> 
> I have a couple of last (I hope) questions here:
> 
> 1) Do I need to install Thunderbird on the Windows laptop in order to do the
> migration? It might be a hidden requirement that Outlook is installed on the PC
> where the migration is being done, but I can't find that info.
> Or kan I copy the PST files over to Ubuntu and let the migration be handled by
> TB on Ubuntu?

A caveat: The snap packaged Thunderbird client I'm using doesn't have an 
option for importing Outlook data. I don't if this a limitation of the 
snap, or if it applies to the deb packaged version of Thunderbird as 
well. You probably would be better off doing the importation on Windows, 
make any adjustments needed, and then export the Windows Thunderbird 
profile to a zip file which then can be imported with the Linux 
Thunderbird client.

> 
> 2) If I have to migrate on Windws, then in order to go to Ubuntu, can I just
> copy the TB profile to the correct place on Ubuntu and point TB to it there and
> it will work? I.e. are file formats etc compatible Linux/Window

It should, but I'm not sure the file permissions will be set correctly. 
Usually, files copied from a NTFS or *FAT filesystem will have +x bit 
set and will be world readable. Hopefully, Thunderbird will set the 
permissions correctly when importing from the zip file.

-- 
Keith