Migrate Outlook into Thunderbird?

[Sarunas Burdulis]

On 7/13/23 19:15, Bo Berglund wrote:
> Still, now it seems like I have to create the email accounts manually in TB and
> then test importing the old emails to it via the mbox files.

You will need to create the accounts, but “importing” would be merely 
selecting and dragging messages from Local Folders into whatever folders 
in those accounts.

> Someone suggested to use the mbox files directly by just moving them into the
> ThunderBird profile, how can that work?

If readpst exported into MBOXes, you can just put them in 
~/.thunderbird/<profile>/Mail/Local Folders/. You can have any folder 
structure you like in Local Folders.

> Is TB using mbox as its own storage system?

Yes, it is. For Local Folders and, if one chooses to Synchronize any 
remote account folders, then those will also be in MBOX format in 
~/.thunderbird/<profile>/ImapMail/<account>/.

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

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