Migrate Outlook into Thunderbird?

[Steven Davies-Morris]

On 7/10/23 01:33, Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2023 00:18:14 -0700, sdavmor <sdavmor at systemstheory.net> wrote:
>
>> I have done this several times.
>> I keep an old version of Thunderbird around for exactly this.
>> I will post information about how to do this Monday.
>> Sent from my T-Mobile 5G Device
> Thanks, I appreciate that!

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.

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