
There is no migration tool for transferring rules. Have 30 some rules that route mail to something like 30 folders, 14 of which IĬonsider to be a kind of prioritized “sub inbox”. Now, Filters, or as they called in Outlook, “Inbox Rules”, are a keyĬomponent of how I manage the large volume of email that I get every day. I manually recreated myĮmail accounts, and things were looking very, very promising. My contacts, and my thousands of emails flawlessly. Play well with my backup and multiple computer strategy. The files and settings are stored – which is a key part of having Thunderbird I was able to set up a new location for Thunderbird’s profile – where all It’s a show-stopper forįirst let me say that almost every aspect of the migration went really, I received a lot of goodįeedback on that plan, and, after having lived in Outlook since before it wasĪnd after a couple of frustrating hours, I aborted my attempt.īut the news is most definitely not all bad, and I’m lookingįorward to trying again, after one little bug is fixed. Switch from Outlook to Thunderbird as my email client. In my weekly newsletter last week I announced that I was considering a Hi everyone, this is Leo Notenboom with news, commentary and answers to some I now recommend Thunderbird as a capable, full-featured, cross-platform email client, and have been using it for several years. Update: Since this was recorded in 2006 Thunderbird has progressed significantly. Migrating from Outlook, I jumped into the deep end of the pool … and jumped back out.
