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Trying to transfer mail folders from Outlook email profile to Thunderbird email client? After searching and trying many methods still unable to find the right way that can help you? If yes, then your search is over by coming to this article. Here you will be show you complete steps to quickly Outlook PST Files to Thunderbird. Let’s begin.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

MS Outlook is one of the most popular applications from Microsoft that comes under the MS Office suite. The job of this application is to enable users to manage their email account from the desktop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It allows sharing of emails and other tasks such as contact\/calendar management, creating notes, etc. Outlook performs every operation with the user’s email profile and allows creating local copies of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outlook’s PST (Personal Storage Table) is the file type uses to create Outlook profile data items locally. A PST file supporting hold every component of an Outlook profile including- mail folders, contact, calendars, tasks, notes, and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are several benefits of storing data in PST file like- making backup, transferring data to different platforms, restore lost items, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also Read: – How to Import Outlook emails from OST to Thunderbird<\/a>?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Mozilla Thunderbird \u2013 Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Just like Outlook, there is also an open-source email client that we know as Mozilla Thunderbird. This application is offered by the Mozilla brand, (the same company that offers the Firefox web browser).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The major functions that Outlook offers are also available in the Thunderbird email client and that too at zero cost. This is why it is the next primary choice after Outlook as the best email client for many users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It stores users data locally just like the Outlook email client. Not a PST, but Thunderbird is able to save mail folders locally as an MBOX file.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Why users want to migrate from Outlook to Thunderbird?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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There are several reasons why users choose to migrate from Outlook to Thunderbird:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n