Friday, June 24, 2011

Recoving Deleted email in Thunderbird

Thunderbird only deletes email when it "compacts" it's folders.
To restore deleted (pre-compacted) email in Thunderbird, locate the email store under...

C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR USER NAME\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles.

And open the .MSF file (there will be no association)...

Open it with notepad and do a global replace for
“X-Mozilla-Status: 0009″ replacing it with “X-Mozilla-Status: 0″
and save the file.

Move can be found here...
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-recover-deleted-emails-in-thunderbird/

Migrate Thunderbird Email to Outlook & Outlook Express

The program mbox-eml-extractor converts mailbox format for Thunderbird, Eudora, and Entourage into EML type usable by Outlook and Outlook Express.

http://www.outlookimport.com/mbox-eml-converter-extract-emails-mailbox-thunderbird-eudora-entourage/

To export the address book... export it as LDIF format, then use Outlook
Express to import the LDIF file.