Simple Ideas and Tricks to Convert EML Email to Mozilla Thunderbird MBOX
Looking for the easy tricks to convert EML emails to Thunderbird. Don’t wander here and there now as you have come to the right place to get the solution. After reading this post, users will easily transfer EML files to Thunderbird MBOX format. Let us discuss some basics before moving to the solution.
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EML is a single message file which is supported by Windows Live Mail application but when come to exporting EML data in Thunderbird, some users will face issues in carrying out the task. Therefore, we have come up with the solutions in this post.
How to import EML database to Mozilla Thunderbird?
In the following section, we will first discuss the manual solution to convert EML emails to Thunderbird client.
Approach 1. Drag and drop EML files in Thunderbird
For this, below are the steps –
- The first step is to create a new folder in Thunderbird program. To do this, Right-click Inbox folder and select New Folder option.
- Provide the name of your choice to the folder and click on the Create Folder button.
- A new subfolder of Inbox is created. Minimize Thunderbird and go to the folder where EML files are saved.
- Select all files using CRTL + A key and drag these messages into the newly created folder.
- It will take few seconds to import EML messages to Thunderbird
- Close Thunderbird application and reopen it to view EML files in it.
Approach 2. Use Import/ Export Tool Add-in to view EML data in Thunderbird
The next manual approach needs to install Import/ Export Tool Add-in which you can download from the official website. And after that, follow the steps below –
- Launch Mozilla Thunderbird application and click on Tools tab
- Select Add-Ins option from Tools menu and Install it. This will add the Import/ Export Tool in Thunderbird.
- Restart Thunderbird application
- Once the application opens, Right-click the Inbox folder and select new folder option to make a new folder.
- Open the newly created folder and click on the Menu button
- Go to Tools menu and then Import/Export Tool and finally choose Import Messages option
- Select EML files whom you want to move to Thunderbird. Click Open.
- Open EML messages into Thunderbird desired folder.
Drawbacks of the manual approaches
The manual approach works free of cost but does not assure 100% safe and desired conversion results. Here are the drawbacks due to which the manual approach is not considered a smart way to convert EML to Mozilla Thunderbird.
- The drag and drop approach fails when multiple EML files are processed at a time. It slows down the process and sometimes hangs the system. Moreover, chances of file lost also exists with this method.
- The second manual approach takes too much time to upload EML files to Mozilla Thunderbird.
- Novice users are unable to carry out manual approaches.
What’s the next alternative?
The answer of this query is EML to Mozilla Thunderbird Converter Tool which beats all the limitations of the manual approaches and provides results with 100% accuracy. The tool seamlessly converts multiple EML files at a time and rapidly perform the whole conversion. The utility works smoothly on all Windows versions without making any changes to the original files.
Final Note
If you want a safe and smooth solution, we would recommend the software solution which provides results without any glitches. Both manual and software approaches are discussed in the above article. Users should analyze both the methods before converting EML messages into Thunderbird.