I retired at the beginning of the year, and before leaving I saved all my personal email from my work account to a PST file. I had confirmed in advance that Microsoft has a free utility for converting PSTs to Gmail. What I didn’t realize until I was gone is that the utility requires you to have outlook installed, and I don’t have it at home.
I read that Thunderbird can import PSTs to MBOX with an add-on, but it doesn’t seem to. There are a mess of conversation utilities, but they’re all restricted to a small number of emails for the free versions.
I’ll probably just give in and buy one, even though I only need it one time for one (huge) file, but I thought I’d ask if anyone had done it and has a better option.
Do you have a friend or relative who uses Outlook who’d let you sit in front of their computer for half an hour to do this?
It’s possible, and that’s a good idea. The only one I know of for sure is my son, but he lives 900 miles away, so I’d have to do it remotely, and the PST file is like a GB in size, so I was trying to avoid that. It’s possible one of my friends does though.
I’m interested in knowing this too as I’d like to migrate everything I do to a non-invasive platform.
Thunderbird looks like a viable client. I installed it tonight and poked around a bit - seems fairly feature rich. If you have outlook, there are a number of options. One of the easiest is to just point Thunderbird at the same address as your Outlook points to, and move your PST contents into Outlook proper. But I don’t have outlook, and don’t want to buy it just for this.
Sign up for the free trial and cancel it as soon as you have migrated your pst file.
The free trials all limit use to like 25 emails and I have orders or magnitude more than that.
Edit: oh, you probably mean the free trial of Outlook? Is there such a thing? If so, that might be viable. As I recall, the MS tool only works with a locally installed version of Outlook, not 365. I’ll have to look into that.
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Yeah? I’ll do this if I’m forced to use Outlook for work again.