Migrate Outlook into Thunderbird?

[Bo Berglund]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2023 09:16:38 -0700, Steven Davies-Morris
<sdavmor at systemstheory.net> wrote:

>Thunderbird release 17.x is what I have used.  Install it on Windows 
>then use the built-in Outlook import tool to read the PST files.  This 
>gets you away from Outlook into an older version of Thunderbird.  You 
>will see you existing Outlook account setup mapped into Thunderbird. 
>Then copy the Thunderbird storage files over to your Linux system and 
>open them in a current version of Thunderbird.  You should be good to go.
>
>Alternatively there are 3rd party software solutions that will let you 
>open the PST files and export to one of many formats, including MBOX.  
>Those will cost you some change however. Probably $50 USD or so.
>
>If you can't find Thunderbird 17.x out there in the wild let me know and 
>I will upload it to a 21 day fileshare.
>

I found the TB version store here:
https://thunderbird.en.uptodown.com/windows/versions

But when I navigated to TB version 17.x it turned out those were from 2012-2013.
I really doubt that there is support for the Outlook 2019 version there...

As I mentioned in a recent post I installed the current version of TB and it is
102.13.0.

In this version there is next to no control over *what* to import/convert, just
"Outlook" and the selection of which kind of data.

I have multiple PST files attached to my Outlook because it handles 3 mail
accounts and each uses one PST file and additionally I have archived data in 4
extra PST files.

In the import sequence in TB 102.13.0 there is no way I can see to select
*which* PST or which mail account to convert.
Sum total of PST files is 15.2 GB.


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden