I used Thunderbird off and on as my email client back in my Windows days (dark days indeed), and then again on Mac OS X for a while. I finally switched to Apple’s official Mail client and haven’t interacted with Thunderbird much until I started thinking about writing this review. Airmail, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Mail.app are probably your best bets out of the 19 options considered. 'Clean interface' is the primary reason people pick Airmail over the competition. This page is powered by a knowledgeable community that helps you make an informed decision.
Mail Account Setup Wizard
Prior to this feature you had to know your IMAP, SMTP, and SSL/TLS settings. Now all you need to provide is your name, email address, and password and the email account set up wizardry will check our database and find the email settings for you.
Personalized Email Addresses
Ever dreamed of having a personalized email address (such as 'dad@thesmithfamily.com') for you, your family or your business? Thunderbird makes this easy - you can sign up for a new email address within Thunderbird, and it will all be set up automatically for you ready to send and receive.
One-click Address Book
One-click Address Book is a quick and easy way to add people to your address book. Add people by simply clicking on the star icon in the message you receive. Two clicks and you can add more details like a photo, birthday, and other contact information.
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Attachment Reminder
The attachment reminder looks for the word attachment (and other words like file types) in the body of your message and reminds you to add an attachment before hitting send.
Multiple-channel chat
Enjoy real-time conversation with your contacts, right from your favorite messaging application, with multiple supported networks. Thunderbird makes it easy to search through both past conversations and received emails.
Tabbed Email
Thunderbird replicates the new look and feel of Mozilla Firefox in an effort to provide a similar user experience across all Mozilla software desktop or mobile and all platforms.
Tabbed email lets you load emails in separate tabs so you can quickly jump between them. Tabs appear on the top of the menu bar providing a powerful visual experience and allowing the toolbars to be much more contextual.
Tabbed email lets you keep multiple emails open for easy reference. Double-clicking or hitting Enter on a mail message will open that message in a new tab.
When quitting Thunderbird, visible tabs will be saved and will be restored when you open Thunderbird the next time. There is also a Tab menu on the Tab toolbar to help you switch between tabs.
Search the Web
You can now search the Web without having to leave Thunderbird. Type whatever comes to mind in Thunderbird’s search box and choose from several different search providers.
You can also highlight words in your email, right click, and select 'search the web for:' to start your Web search.
Quick Filter Toolbar
The Quick Filter Toolbar lets you filter your email faster. Start typing in words in the Quick Filter search box and the results are displayed instantly. Or you can filter your email by New Messages, Tags, and people in your Address Book. You can also 'Pin' or save a Filter and use it across multiple folders.
Search Tools
The search interface in Thunderbird contains filtering and timeline tools to pinpoint the exact email you’re looking for. Thunderbird also indexes all of your emails and chat conversations to help you search even faster. Your search results are displayed in a tab so you can easily switch back and forth to your search results and other email.
Message Archive
If you think you’re going to need an email in the future but want it out of your inbox without deleting it, archive it! Archiving helps you manage your inbox and put your email into the archive folder system.
Selecting the Archive button or hitting the ‘A’ key will archive your email.
Activity Manager
The Activity Manager records all the interactions between Thunderbird and your email provider in one place. There’s no more guess work. You only have to look in one place to see everything that’s happening with your email.
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Anyone who undergoes a shift or changeover in the services they were using has countless worries about the entire process. It’s not just changing the service but the migration of all the goods, data, information that was associated with the previous service provider.
It’s not any different with the switch between email clients. And one of those changeovers can be particular demanding because of no common data file between them that they share, and that’s the one that we are talking about here.
Even though both clients are for Mac / Windows operating system, they both use separate formats for storing data, and those formats are not similar to each other in any way. Thunderbird uses EML files inside its SBD directory and Outlook uses PST. (Note: Mac Outlook stores it data in OLM file format, but can import PST file).
This difference and incompatibility can come in the way of users who are switching their email client from Thunderbird to Outlook.
There’s an option of manual conversion method using a dummy email account that supports IMAP sync and has enough available space on servers, at least equal to the size of the database in Thunderbird you want to move. However, this approach can often be tedious and depending on the size can even be impractical. It’s basically uploading local data in Thunderbird to the web-server and then downloading it from the server to Outlook local folder. It takes too long even if you fast connection but in most cases, it’s impractical because no one offers a huge space on their web-servers.
But this too has its flaws making it not worthy of your time and efforts. It is making it too time-consuming. And it also leads to data loss and incomplete conversion.
The final option, and the one that works under certain situations, is by converting Thunderbird Mail to Outlook (PST file). You can convert them to the files that Outlook can import (PST) or convert to the full database directly than you can simply move to Outlook.
And this option works best if you have a professional converter.
The one we can recommend is “Mail Extractor Pro,” from USL Software.
For Mac Thunderbird to Outlook:
You do not need to archive your Thunderbird Mail Database. Just click on “Auto Load”, It will load your entire Email Database for conversion.
For Windows Thunderbird to Outlook:
You need to copy the Thunderbird ‘Profile’ folder from Windows system. Click on “Browse” to Add your database for conversion.
Whatever we said above about the difficulty of switching email client and moving data can be a tad bit intimidating to experts, but it is very painful for beginners. Any casually tool built by throwing together ordinary algorithms can make matters worse.
Therefore, worrying about moving data is totally justified, but it’s time to let go of that.
“Mail Extractor Pro” falls under a completely different category of fully professional, smart software utility that delivers output files to perfection, without losing anything in between, without data integrity loss, and in no time.
Mac terminal program. You can download it and see it for yourself how the tool functions with your Thunderbird files. Fist you need to copy the profile folder from Windows or Mac Thunderbird, load them up to “Mail Extractor Pro“. If you have installed Thunderbird on Mac system, then use Auto load features. Click “Convert” and it will start converting your data. Once finished, you can easily import the output files to Microsoft Outlook for Mac or Windows.
You can try the free demo version to check it out!
Try Mail Extractor Pro to import Thunderbird Mail to Outlook for Windows and Mac.