Technical Question

[Star Spangler]

Does anyone know how you can migrate emails stored on Thunderbird across to Outlook '07?

Reward offered.

[Donagh]

http://www.broobles.com/imapsize/th2outlook.php

[David McKeown]

Do you know what type of email account it is that you have?  If its an IMAP it will just be a matter of entering the new settings.  I have had some problems with customers with the method Donagh had linked to above.  Drop me a PM if you do too.

[Star Spangler]

Thanks for the info.  I'm not sure about your question.  We were using Mozilla Thunderbird here in the office and we then introduced Office 2007 which included modules such as Groove and Infopath which integrate easily with Outlook so we decided to switch back to Outlook to make better use of the new version.  The email account is Pop3 - is that what you're asking?

I tried using that link Donagh, but I couldn't locate the mbox files!

[armaghniac]

I think Thunderbird is great, but won't have access to Office 2007 for another week or so.

Thunderbird folders are similar to those used in Eudora and other mail software. Windows XP Outlook Express can import Eudora files, once converted Outlook 2007 can used them.

Another idea is to install a temporary mail client running imap locally, both Thunderbird and Outlook could talk to this. Not sure which software to use though.

[Star Spangler]

Thanks.  I got Donagh's suggestion to work great.

It was interesting to see that what came across included every deleted and permanently deleted email as well including a few thousand spam mails.  Goes to show though that you can permanently delete an email to easily.