Important: These instructions include using a 3rd party application which is not supported by the Help Desk or UW-Madison Microsoft 365 team. Read this answer in context 👍 0 All Replies (4)This document will provide step-by-step instructions on how to export local mail from Thunderbird. Perhaps the reasons you have for changing over are not really issues, just lack of knowledge as to what is available. You might also share what it is you don't like about Thunderbird. Internet email is almost a bolt on extra. Outlook, despite it's flaws is very similar in that regard, just with a corporate focus. Thunderbird has a dated and simplistic interface that sort of hides an immensely complex and powerful mail management tool.

If live mail met your needs, you perhaps should consider using web mail as around 80 or 90 percent of folks do. It's popularity is more about ignorance as to options, and the fact they gave it away with MS Office for 20 years, than about the quality of the product for casual email use outside of a corporation. Outlook is not a panacea, it is a deeply flawed product that struggles to do email properly outside of a corporate Microsoft exchange environment it was designed to work in. I spend 4 hours yesterday recovering mail from a corrupt outlook profile for a friend would had spent the previous week working with Dell and Microsoft Support and getting no useful result. I hope you enjoy your outlook experience. For instance if you used outlook and have it installed when Thunderbird is first run it actually asks if you want to import outlook and just does it. That is how it works You do not export to a product you import from a product. Perhaps what you needed to do was ask Microsoft how to import your mails into their products. I'll try some of the information you provided before I just unplug it and deliver it to my computer tech when he gets back.

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