Switching from Apple Mail to ThunderbirdThunderbird can import your messages and OS X address book, but it cannot import your account settings. (Currently, message and address book import is only functional with Apple Mail 5.0 or earlier.)Importing Apple Mail messages. On the menu bar, open the Tools menu and click on Import.
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The import wizard will open. Select Mail then click Next. Select Apple Mail then click Next. You will see a log of successfully imported folders, then click Finish to close the import wizard.Your imported messages will appear in the Local Folders account, in a folder called ' Apple Mail Import'.Importing the OS X address bookThunderbird will read your OS X address book and display it in the Thunderbird address book window! From the menu bar, open the Window menu and click on Address Book.
Your OS X address book will appear in the left pane.If you want to import it to the Thunderbird address book, just drag and drop entries from the Mac OS X address book folder to the Personal Address Book. Switching from Windows Mail or Windows Live Mail to ThunderbirdWindows Mail is the default mail client included with Windows Vista.Windows Live Mail is the email client bundled with Windows Live Essentials.Both client programs store emails in the.eml file format. In order to export messages from Windows Mail or Windows Live Mail 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 Mail to Thunderbird.To find the location of the email files in Windows Mail or Windows Live Mail, go to Tools Options Advanced Maintenance Store Folder.If you do not see Tools, try File Options Mail Advanced Maintenance instead.Importing Windows Mail MessagesImporting Windows Mail (.eml files) into Thunderbird is enabled by the third-party add-on ImportExport Tools. And install this add-on to transfer messages from Windows Live Mail to Thunderbird. Export your messages from Windows Mail in.eml format.
In Thunderbird, create a folder in 'Local Folders' to hold your imported mail and select it. Right click the folder and select ImportExportTools Import all messages from a directory also from its subdirectories.
Navigate to the.eml files folder. The default location for Windows Live mail is C:UsersAppDataLocalMicrosoftWindows Live Mail (or Windows Mail). Click Open. Your data will be imported. Note: To be able to see the 'AppData' folder, you must change the Folder Options to 'Show hidden files, folders, and drives' first.
See the Microsoft Support article for more information.
Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird are the two most sought-after email client. Both services are amazing in their own way. Nowadays, more and more people want to import Outlook contacts to Thunderbird because Mozilla Thunderbird is an open source email service and sometimes all they are left with only Thunderbird as an option.