Migrate Outlook into Thunderbird?

[Sarunas Burdulis]

On 13/07/2023 15.28, Bo Berglund wrote:
> 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.

Your needs may be different, but I would just put MBOX files produced by 
readpst into

~/.thunderbird/<your TB profile>/Mail/Local Folders/

naming them as needed. These will appear as folders in your TB's Local 
Folders. From there you can drag them to any account/profile you wish, 
local or IMAP on some server. In this case there is no such thing as 
“import” in TB...

-- 
Sarunas Burdulis
Dartmouth Mathematics
https://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas

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