Migrate Outlook into Thunderbird?

[Bo Berglund]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:02:48 +0200, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

>Now I have converted my GMail Outlook profile file (PST) using the command:
>
>time readpst -M -e -o gmailbosse GMail-Bosse.pst
>(took less than a second)
>
>Then I have also installed the add-on ImportExportTools_NG in TB and tried to
>use it to import a profile copy in TB.
>
>But it returns a "no valid profile found" error...
>
>So I guess I am out of luck?
>
>PS: My Gmail profile in Outlook_2019 uses POP3 and *NOT* IMAP so that should not
>be an issue. DS

I now have checked *which* files the readpst command produces and it seems like
it ONLY writes out the emails it finds!
No sign of any account profile data!!

So that makes it incapable of being used to import a *profile* into ThunderBird,
because that would need the profile data (which exists in the PST file) to also
be output!

It seems like readpst is designed to only dump the *messages* and nothing more.
And TB seems not to like importing these without the profile itself.

Do I have to create the GMail profile again in TB and then somehow import just
the messages into that TB profile?

I use my GMail profile for this test because that PST is pretty small, GMail is
not my main mail account.
The main account is about 30 times bigger...


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden