{"id":217,"date":"2022-06-07T21:13:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T21:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fakler.es\/it\/?p=217"},"modified":"2022-06-23T10:36:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T10:36:11","slug":"migration-from-outlook-2010-to-thunderbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fakler.es\/it\/2022\/06\/07\/migration-from-outlook-2010-to-thunderbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Migration from Outlook 2010 to Thunderbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My email provider told me that I would not get my mail (POP3) no more, because Outlook does not support the TLS 1.1 version.<\/p>\n<p>So good bye Outlook, hello Thunderbird, but &#8230; I still want to have access to all my messages. This is not an easy task.<\/p>\n<p>There are several websites proposing a solution :<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"rj3aF1hAAT\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.softwarepro.org\/blog\/how-to-transfer-outlook-emails-to-thunderbird\/\">How to Transfer Outlook Emails to Thunderbird Easily<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/www.softwarepro.org\/blog\/how-to-transfer-outlook-emails-to-thunderbird\/embed\/#?secret=rj3aF1hAAT\" data-secret=\"rj3aF1hAAT\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;How to Transfer Outlook Emails to Thunderbird Easily&#8221; &#8212; Technical Blog\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.freeviewer.org\/blog\/import-outlook-mail-to-thunderbird\/<\/p>\n<p>But they want me to buy a special application. Not interested in doing that because I got no more than two PST files to convert and then I am done.<\/p>\n<p>I already knew that there is a tool to convert PST files to a mbox format &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It is the libpst Utilities  &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/slackbuilds.org\/repository\/14.2\/libraries\/libpst\/<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;libpst&#8221; is a MS Outlook Personal Folders converter. The libpst project includes a library and a set of utilities to decode<br \/>\nand convert MS Outlook PST files. The tool I need is readpst for to convert PST files to mbox and other formats<\/p>\n<p>Further information can be found here :<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.kali.org\/tools\/libpst\/<\/p>\n<p>First the utilities have to be installed ..<\/p>\n<p>sudo apt install pst-utils<\/p>\n<p>Then the mailbox conversion has to be performed<\/p>\n<p>$ readpst -u 1.pst<\/p>\n<p>Now that I have converted the data file to the mbox format I was looking for a way to import the file to the Thunderbird application<\/p>\n<p>The decisive hint came from  &#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"tyxeudT7yl\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcvita.com\/import\/mbox-file-to-thunderbird\/\">Import MBOX to Thunderbird &#8211; A Complete Step by Step Guide<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcvita.com\/import\/mbox-file-to-thunderbird\/embed\/#?secret=7kSLWoGCHD#?secret=tyxeudT7yl\" data-secret=\"tyxeudT7yl\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Import MBOX to Thunderbird &#8211; A Complete Step by Step Guide&#8221; &#8212; Import Data Items\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For to import to Thunderbird the &#8220;ImportExportTools NG&#8221; can be used\u00b7 It  is completely free. <\/p>\n<p>(https:\/\/www.bitrecover.com\/blog\/import-mbox-to-thunderbird\/ is recommending the Thunderbird import wizard &#8211; This is also a software I would have to pay for &#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>The setback of this method is when importing the mbox formatted data there are many folders with the foldername mbox created , for instance &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>mbox123<br \/>\nmbox147<br \/>\nmbox111<br \/>\nmbox132<\/p>\n<p>etc.<\/p>\n<p>That means &#8230; the &#8220;ImportExportTools NG&#8221; does not keep the namens of the Outlook folders. It puts &#8220;mbox&#8221; there followed by a number. <\/p>\n<p>After the migration I have to change the name of these folders,there are nearly one hundred folders to be renamed so there is quite a lot of work to be done. <\/p>\n<p>At a certain point I have been worried about where to find the storage place of my mailbox.<\/p>\n<p>That s not hard to find with a right click on the inbox, it appears as &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\/home\/pi\/.thunderbird\/togys4ze.default-default\/Mail\/pop.gmx.net\/Inbox.sbd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My email provider told me that I would not get my mail (POP3) no more, because Outlook does not support the TLS 1.1 version. So good bye Outlook, hello Thunderbird, but &#8230; I still want to have access to all my messages. This is not an easy task. There are several websites proposing a solution &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fakler.es\/it\/2022\/06\/07\/migration-from-outlook-2010-to-thunderbird\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Migration from Outlook 2010 to Thunderbird&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[104,6,105],"tags":[51,106,107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fakler.es\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fakler.es\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fakler.es\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fakler.es\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fakler.es\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/fakler.es\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/fakler.es\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fakler.es\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fakler.es\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fakler.es\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}