Switching to Thunderbird

Table of Contents

  • i Switching from Apple Mail to Thunderbird
    • one.1 Importing Apple Mail letters
    • 1.two Importing the Os X accost book
  • two Switching from Windows Post or Windows Live Mail to Thunderbird
    • ii.1 Importing Windows Mail Messages
    • two.2 Importing Windows Postal service Contacts
  • 3 Importing from Outlook and Eudora
    • 3.1 Eudora is not installed
  • 4 Switching from Evolution to Thunderbird
    • four.1 Importing Evolution Messages
    • 4.2 Importing Evolution Contacts
  • 5 Switching from Spider web-based Email Applications to Thunderbird
  • six See Also

Switching from Apple Mail to Thunderbird

Thunderbird can import your messages and Bone X address book, but it cannot import your business relationship settings. (Currently, message and address book import is only functional with Apple Post 5.0 or earlier.)

Importing Apple Mail messages

  1. On the menu bar, open the menu and click on . The import wizard will open up.

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  2. Select Mail service so click Next.

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  3. Select Apple Mail service then click Next.

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  4. You will meet a log of successfully imported folders, then click Finish to close the import wizard.

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Your imported letters will announced in the Local Folders account, in a binder chosen "Apple Mail service Import".
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Importing the OS Ten accost volume

Thunderbird will read your Os X address book and display information technology in the Thunderbird address book window! From the menu bar, open the menu and click on . Your Os X address book will announced in the left pane.
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If you desire to import it to the Thunderbird accost book, but drag and drop entries from the Mac Bone X address volume folder to the Personal Address Volume.

Note: You can select all entries at in one case by holding downward the control fundamental and pressing A.

Switching from Windows Post or Windows Live Mail to Thunderbird

Windows Mail is the default mail client included with Windows Vista. Windows Live Mail is the e-mail client bundled with Windows Live Essentials. Both customer programs store emails in the .eml file format. In order to export messages from Windows Mail or Windows Live Postal service to Thunderbird, you must export messages from the Windows application and import them into Thunderbird. A similar method is needed to export contacts from Windows Mail or Windows Live Postal service to Thunderbird.

To discover the location of the email files in Windows Postal service or Windows Live Postal service, go to .

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Importing Windows Postal service Letters

Importing Windows Mail service (.eml files) into Thunderbird is enabled by the third-party add-on ImportExport Tools. Download and install this add-on to transfer messages from Windows Live Mail to Thunderbird.

  1. Consign your letters from Windows Post in .eml format.
  2. In Thunderbird, create a binder in "Local Folders" to hold your imported mail and select it.
  3. Right click the folder and select .
  4. Navigate to the .eml files folder. The default location for Windows Live mail is C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Postal service (or \Windows Mail).
  5. Click Open. Your data will be imported.

Notation: To be able to see the "AppData" folder, you must change the Binder Options to "Evidence hidden files, folders, and drives" first. See the Microsoft Support article Show hidden files for more information.

In order to import Windows contacts into Thunderbird, you must consign the contacts to vCard files (.vcf format) and import the files into Thunderbird.

  1. In Windows Live Post, open up the Contacts and select all the contacts you wish to export.
  2. Click on .
  3. Select an empty directory to save these to.

In Thunderbird, install the MoreFunctionsForAddressBook improver following these instructions.

  1. Click on Address Book.
  2. Click on the address book you wish to import the contacts into.
  3. Click .
  4. Browse to the folder where you exported your contacts to.
  5. Select all the contacts you lot wish to import.
  6. Click Open to import all selected contacts.

Alternatively, if this does not work or is not supported in your instance, y'all tin can endeavour this:

Run into the Export contacts from Outlook article at Microsoft.com for instructions on how to export contacts in Windows.

After creating the required file, you lot can import your contacts using the import sorcerer:

  1. In Thunderbird, go to .
  2. Cull Address Books and click Side by side.
  3. Choose Text file (LDIF, .tab, .csv, .txt) and click Next.
  4. Cull Comma Separated (or All files) in the drop-down list at the bottom correct, scan to the .csv file you but created, select it and click Open.
  5. Expect for the import to finish and click Finish.

In the Import Address Book window that appears, apply the Move Up and Move Down buttons to lucifer the address book fields on the left to the correct data for import on the right, and uncheck items you do not want to import. When you lot are done, click OK. Your contacts should at present exist imported and ready for apply in Thunderbird.

Annotation that if you are having problems importing the fields properly (like when all record data to import shows up inside the showtime field row when within the Import Address Book window), this is probably a result of an exported .csv file containing semicolons instead of commas, or the other way around. This unremarkably happens considering the separator in Windows Regional settings does not lucifer the one for the Thunderbird locale, for instance when y'all exported a .csv file using an English Windows version and try to import it into a non-English version of Thunderbird. In this case, you lot should make the list separator friction match in your Regional settings before exporting the .csv file, or you could edit the already exported .csv file using a text editor and replace all semicolons by commas (or vice versa), and retry the import step.

Importing from Outlook and Eudora

The normal Thunderbird import process requires that yous accept Eudora or Outlook installed on your computer. If you exercise non have them installed, there are alternatives as noted below.

To use Thunderbird's import sorcerer, you lot must use an older version of Thunderbird, because the wizard is disabled for Outlook and Eudora in Thunderbird version 38 and newer versions. Install version 31.8, import your data, then upgrade to the latest version of Thunderbird via the built-in update mechanism.

For Eudora, if you have data problems or crashes, attempt an even older version of Thunderbird and a tool to clean the information. An example of a data cleaning tool for Mac OS is Eudora Mailbox Cleaner.

An alternative to Thunderbird's import sorcerer is to find a tool to transform your data to mbox format (.mbx), so use Import Export Tools improver in Thunderbird to import the mbox files. One such mbox conversion tool for Eudora is Eudora Rescue.

Eudora is not installed

If Eudora is not installed and y'all want to utilise the Thunderbird import wizard, y'all can easily change the Windows registry to bespeak to your Eudora files, then run the import wizard.

  • Create a .reg file called eudora.reg containing the following lines. Replace H:\\SCRATCH\\Eudoradata with the location of your Eudora data. (note the double backslashes and the blank line) 
                    === Registry file, conform file location as required === Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00                                      

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Qualcomm\Eudora\CommandLine] "Current"="Annihilation H:\\SCRATCH\\Eudoradata Anything" ===

  • In a Windows control prompt, run "regedit /south eudora.reg".
  • Use the Thunderbird import wizard.

Switching from Evolution to Thunderbird

The following instructions describe how to import messages and contacts from Evolution.

Importing Development Messages

Thunderbird and Evolution utilize the same file format (called mbox) to store your mails, so its not difficult to import them manually.

  1. Open Nautilus.
  2. Open ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local which is where Evolution shop your mails.
  3. Copy all the file without extension (such every bit Inbox, Outbox,..) into the emplacement used by Thunderbird to store its post (something like ~/.thunderbird/uk41lql0.default/Mail/Local Folders,where you need to conform uk41lql0.default to your ain installation).
  4. Launch Thunderbird to check that all your post have been correctly imported.
  1. Open your accost volume in Evolution, right-click on it and choose: Save equally vcard… to consign it into vCard file format.
  2. In Thunderbird, open the carte, select Address Books and then vCard file (.vcf) and select your contact file.

Switching from Web-based Email Applications to Thunderbird

If you are using a spider web-based awarding provided by your Internet Service Provider (Internet service provider) to access your electronic mail, you probably only need to configure your account information to switch to Thunderbird. Come across Manual Account Configuration for instructions.

Once yous have configured your account in Thunderbird, y'all should be able to access all your messages (both incoming and sent). Nonetheless, your accost volume (contacts), mail service filters and other settings will not exist automatically transferred to Thunderbird.

Some web-base e-mail applications let you lot to export contacts in text or comma-separated formats. Check your Internet access provider's documentation for more information. To import contacts into Thunderbird, select and follow the instructions on the screen.

Run across Also

  • Business relationship Setup affiliate in the Thunderbird FLOSS transmission
  • Migrate to Thunderbird chapter in the Thunderbird FLOSS manual

These fine people helped write this commodity:

Chris Ilias, Underpass, Tonnes, Michele Rodaro, YFdyh000, Wayne Mery, Swarnava Sengupta, Matt, user917725, pollti, vesper, Michael Buluma, MozGianluc, amsg

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