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    1) To import emails from Outlook on Windows to Thunderbird on Ubuntu, first install the ImportExportTools add-on and readpst package in Thunderbird. 2) Next, copy the Outlook .pst files to the Ubuntu machine and use the readpst command to convert and extract the files to a format Thunderbird can read. 3) In Thunderbird, import the converted emails by selecting "Import all messages from a directory" and choosing the extraction directory, doing this for each .pst file conversion.

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    1) To import emails from Outlook on Windows to Thunderbird on Ubuntu, first install the ImportExportTools add-on and readpst package in Thunderbird. 2) Next, copy the Outlook .pst files to the Ubuntu machine and use the readpst command to convert and extract the files to a format Thunderbird can read. 3) In Thunderbird, import the converted emails by selecting "Import all messages from a directory" and choosing the extraction directory, doing this for each .pst file conversion.

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    1) To import emails from Outlook on Windows to Thunderbird on Ubuntu, first install the ImportExportTools add-on and readpst package in Thunderbird. 2) Next, copy the Outlook .pst files to the Ubuntu machine and use the readpst command to convert and extract the files to a format Thunderbird can read. 3) In Thunderbird, import the converted emails by selecting "Import all messages from a directory" and choosing the extraction directory, doing this for each .pst file conversion.

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    1) To import emails from Outlook on Windows to Thunderbird on Ubuntu, first install the ImportExportTools add-on and readpst package in Thunderbird. 2) Next, copy the Outlook .pst files to the Ubuntu machine and use the readpst command to convert and extract the files to a format Thunderbird can read. 3) In Thunderbird, import the converted emails by selecting "Import all messages from a directory" and choosing the extraction directory, doing this for each .pst file conversion.

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    Importing Email From Outlook

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    By ReasonNovember 1, 2013Permalink
    Transferring email from Microsoft Outlook to Thunderbird is easy and
    straightforward once you know how to do it, but as for many of these comparatively
    simple tasks finding a recipe that works can be an exercise in frustration. Hence
    these notes, which are based on moving mail archives from Outlook 2007 on
    Windows Vista to Thunderbird 24.0 on Ubuntu 13.04, but apply generally to any
    effort to import PST or OST format mail files into Thunderbird on Linux.

    Install Required Packages and Add-ons


    In
    Thunderbird
    open
    up
    the
    Tools
    ->
    Add-ons
    tab,
    search
    for
    the ImportExportTools add-on, and install it. Note that this is a little flaky: it works,
    but the usage and mail format has to be exact or it will fail to run the import.
    Next install the readpst package. This is in the default repositories, and it allows the
    conversion of PST files into other formats.

    apt-get install readpst

    Copy Over Outlook PST Files


    Outlook will stash your PST or OST files somewhere in the application data space
    for your Windows user: see the Microsoft Office site for the locations for Outlook
    2007, Outlook 2010, and Outlook 2013 for example. You will probably have at least
    two mail files, both of which will need to be imported into Thunderbird. Whether
    they are in PST (archive.pst) or OST (archive.ost) format depends on what type of
    mail server and which version of Outlook you are using.
    You can copy over PST files as-is, but if your mail is stored in OST format files you
    will have to open up Outlook and export your mail to a PST format file. This isn't
    hard to do, fortunately, and you can find descriptions of the process for Outlook
    2007, Office 2010, and Outlook 2013 at the Microsoft Office site.
    Copy the resulting PST files to the destination Ubuntu machine using WinSCP or a
    similar tool. If you have the standard PST files for a single POP account with default
    settings in Outlook, then you might end up with these:

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    /home/user/Downloads/outlook.pst
    /home/user/Downloads/archive.pst

    Convert and Import


    To convert the files into a format that Thunderbird can read, run the following
    commands. You can look over thereadpst man page to learn more about the
    available options:

    cd /home/user/Downloads
    mkdir outlook

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    mkdir archive
    readpst -o ./outlook - M -u -w -e -b outlook.pst
    readpst -o ./archive - M -u -w -e -b archive.pst

    You will have to rename the Inbox folder in order to avoid a blocking conflict on
    import. The same goes for any other folder that has the same name as one that
    already exists in Thunderbird, but only Inbox will be there by default in a new
    installation. The following is for a vanilla Outlook 2007 mailbox setup, but your
    folder names might be different. There will still be Inbox folders in there
    somewhere, however, and they will have to be renamed:

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    cd
    mv
    cd
    mv

    /home/user/Downloads/outlook/Personal*
    Inbox OldInbox
    ../../archive/Archive*
    Inbox OldInbox

    Next switch to Thunderbird and create a new temporary subdirectory called "tmp"
    under "Local Folders". Right-click on "tmp" in the left mail folder pane and select
    this from the right-click menu:

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    ImportExportTools
    -> import all messages from a directory
    -> also from its subdirectories

    In the dialog choose "/home/user/Downloads/outlook/Personal Folders". You will be


    given no confirmation in response, but if you click on the parent folder you will see
    subfolders start to appear under "tmp". Open any of these and you will see that
    importing of email is underway.
    You will now have to repeat this process for each of the converted Outlook PST and
    OST files, each with a different temporary folder: "tmp2", "tmp3", and so on. If you
    use the same subfolder, then the import will fail because of duplicate folder names.
    As noted above, you will probably only have two files to import.

    Clean Up
    Uninstall the ImportExportTools add-on. You won't want it hanging around to clutter
    up your right-click menus. Then move your mails and folders around until
    everything is where it should be.

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