Migrate Outlook into Thunderbird?

Jeffrey Walton noloader at gmail.com
Mon Jul 10 16:26:31 UTC 2023


On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 11:39 AM Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
>
> On 10/07/2023 15:10, Liam Proven wrote:
> [...]
> > (E.g. maybe T'bird on Windows can directly import from Outlook? I have
> > no idea! AFAIK nothing else can read .PST files.)
>
> I had forgotten this. Get the OWL plugin for Tbird. It's commercial but
> cheap, and iot lets you create and open an email account in Tbird which
> talks directly to an Outlook server. I used it for a while when my
> university account was Outlook-only but they still provided IMAP access
> for people using non-MS MUAs. It worked very well, AFAIR. But if your
> provider has closed off IMAP access, then you're out of luck. My
> university forced everyone to use OWA, which sucks little black toads,

Lots of interesting results here, too :
https://www.google.com/search?q=outlook+import+pst+site:github.com .
Some may be worth trying out in a VM.

Jeff




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