Export Email from Thunderbird: Step by Step Screenshots

Export Email from Thunderbird: Step 1

• Download mbx2eml and extract it to your desktop.

• Right click on the desktop.

• Select New | menu folder.

Export Email from Thunderbird: Step 2

• Type “email”.

• Press Enter.

Export Email from Thunderbird: Step 3

• Open the Mozilla Thunderbird storage folder in Windows Explorer.

• Open the Local Folders folder.

• Mark all files named as folders in your Mozilla Thunderbird that do not have an extension.

  • For example, exclude “msgFilterRules” and “Inbox.msf” and all other MSF files.

• Copy or move the selected files to the “mail” folder on your desktop.

Export Email from Thunderbird: Step 4

• Open a Command Prompt window (via Start | All Programs | Accessories | Command Prompt).

• Type “CD”.

• Drag the “mail” folder from your desktop to the command prompt window.

• Press Enter in the Command Prompt window.

• Like “mkdir off”.

• Press Enter.

• Now enter “..mbx2eml * out”.

• Press Enter.

Export Email from Thunderbird: Step 5

• Open the mail folder on your desktop.

• Open the “off” folder.

• From the “from” subfolders, drag and drop the .eml files into the desired folders in Outlook Express.