import email from thunderbird

[Guest]

I need to import from thunderbird to outlook 2003.

The help I find so far is not helpful, since it implies I need to either
install a new version of netscape and import from tbird to netscape first, or
import to outlook express first and then into outlook. I do not have outlook
express.

Why should I need to install a thrid program to import to as an intermediary
step?

Outlook does not find the email foders located in C:\Documents and
Settings\userid\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\something.default\Mail
, which is where tbird stores them.

What's up with that?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I need to import from thunderbird to outlook 2003.

See this discussion: http://sillydog.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2062

The help I find so far is not helpful, since it implies I need to
either install a new version of netscape and import from tbird to
netscape first, or import to outlook express first and then into
outlook.

That's the technique.

I do not have outlook express.

Everyone with Windows has Outlook Express.

Why should I need to install a thrid program to import to as an
intermediary step?

Because Outlook has no ability to import directly from Thunderbird.

Outlook does not find the email foders located in C:\Documents and
Settings\userid\Application
Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\something.default\Mail , which is where
tbird stores them.

What's up with that?

Outlook has no abiliity to import mbox message stores in the format
Thunderbird uses.

 

[Gordon]

Brian Tillman wrote:

Outlook has no abiliity to import mbox message stores in the format
Thunderbird uses.

Actually the mbox files that Thunderbird uses are the same format that mbox
files have always been - it's just that the index files have a different
extension......

 

[Guest]

If that is the case, if the index files have the same structure as the
originals, could they be copied with a new name and be successfully used for
an import? (obviously not used by tbird)

 

[Gordon]

If that is the case, if the index files have the same structure as the
originals, could they be copied with a new name and be successfully used
for an import? (obviously not used by tbird)

Unfortunately not AFAIK. OE and Outlook can only "see" mbox index files in
the format that occurs in Eudora and Netscape 4.x.....

You could do worse than to have a look here:
http://www.broobles.com/imapsize/th2outlook.php

HTH