Migrating Emails from Thunderbird to Zimbra Desktop
Thunderbird is a well-known email client with services of emailing, news feed, chat, groups, newsgroups, contact management, new event option, etc. But it is also a regular email application with no extra features. Mozilla Thunderbird saves its single files into .eml format and for mailbox it used .mbox format. Thunderbird provide you option to save thunderbird emails as .eml format, but Thunderbird does not provide option of Thunderbird to Zimbra Import
On the other hand Zimbra Desktop only supports TGZ file, if you want to Export Emails from Thunderbird to Zimbra, then first you have to convert Thunderbird emails in TGZ format. To Convert Thunderbird emails in TGZ format, first you have to save Thunderbird emails in mbox format
How to Save Thunderbird Emails as MBOX format?
First – Open Mozilla Thunderbird and click on the Thunderbird Profile which you would like export i.e abcd@gmail.com
Second – Right side of your screen you can see the several options you have to click on the "View Settings for this account" option
Third – Account setting dialog box will appear, click on "Server Setting" where you can see the "Local Directory" option, simply Copy the location and open it.
- Location of Default Local Folder: C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\04p4drch.default\Mail\Local Folders
- Location of Gmail configure profile:C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\04p4drch.default\ImapMail\imap.googlemail.com
After collecting Thunderbird emails use the Thunderbird to Zimbra Migration tool, this is that prefect yet professional tool that would let users to convert multiple emails of thunderbird Mailboxes to TGZ format. It not just convert import thunderbird Mails to Zimbra also convert attached files and documents along with their respected mails.
- Now Launch the Software
- Click on "select Folder" option and browse the folder having Thunderbird MBOX files
- Then select the location to save the converted .TGZ files
Software maintains emails rich-text and other formatting during the conversion process and also maintain the folder on-disk structure. This is the perfect product for migrating Thunderbird multiple emails to Zimbra Desktop format. Software convert Thunderbird emails with attached files to Zimbra, it will keep attachments into their original format, no alteration in file formatting.
Download the trial version and easily done the Thunderbird to Zimbra Import process, Free trial version will let you convert 25 Thunderbird emails to TGZ format with no cost, so don't leave this chance download the software and convert emails by yourself and test software.
