I was facing trouble with Windows Vista Mail so, I started using Thunderbird. But I have bundles of files created by using Windows Vista Mail and want to transfer them into Thunderbird. What is the simplest procedure to convert emails from Windows Vista Mail to Thunderbird and that should be the perfect to convert without any issue?
For the issues like this, we have some most popular and recommended ways available to convert Windows Vista Mail into Thunderbird.
Windows Vista Mail is the default mail client of Windows Vista operating system and it stores emails in the file format. Thunderbird is a cross-platform/Windows platform independent email application that stores email files in MBOX format and each mailbox contains emails as plain text. In order to export messages from Windows Mail to Thunderbird, you first need to convert files into the file format and then import them into Thunderbird.
Before knowing the methods needed to export mails from Windows Vista Mail to Thunderbird, first of all you need to know about what is the location of your Windows Mail files and Thunderbird files:
Location of EML files:
C :>> Users>>(username)>>AppData>>Local>>Microsoft>>Windows Mail
Location of MBOX files:
C:\Documents & Settings\(user name)\Application Data\ Thunderbird\ Profiles\
Note: If Application data folder is hidden then show it.
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This is a manual conversion method which uses Import \ Export option of Thunderbird to transfer emails files to Thunderbird. Follow the steps to access emails from Windows Mail to Thunderbird.
In this method, open Windows Mail email client, select the email account => highlight all the emails => click and drag to an empty folder. Now, release right click and you will get context menu, select 'copy here'.
Windows Vista Mail files data will be imported to Thunderbird. Now open the Thunderbird and you can see the email messages are migrated to respective message folder.
This process will copy all your Windows Mail messages into that empty folder. Now you can import the files from that folder to Thunderbird. Note: When you are dragging the email messages to empty folder, be patient. It takes time depending upon size of the files.
You require doing this for each email account and messages you want to transfer into Thunderbird. In both the conversion methods, single email message is converted into a format then transferred to Thunderbird thus; multiple conversion option or Batch conversion is not possible.
Above methods are time consuming, unusual and lengthy processes which require a lot of control over the conversion process.
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When all the process to convert Windows Mail files to Thunderbird look messed and puzzled. Then selecting a third party tool - The Converter tool is the only efficient and effective choice.
The Converter tool is excellent conversion tool and smoothly converts email items from Windows Mail to Thunderbird. This third party tool is most recommended and able to perform uncomplicated Windows Live mails to Thunderbird conversion.
Only few steps you required to do - Download the software and run the program -> Select the EML files -> Click on Convert Messages to MBOX file.
Although PCVARE tool is one of the trustworthy utility, any non technical user can also convert Windows Vista Mail files to Thunderbird format with few clicks of mouse. This perfectly converts files of Windows Vista Mail to Thunderbird format, offering features like: