Can We Export Thunderbird Emails into Multiple Formats- Detailed Solution

In today’s technological world, email is considered one of the important parts of communication. We use emails for our personal and professional use. We have different email clients like Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail, and etc that provide email facilities so that we can send or receive emails for others. Thunderbird is one of the popular email clients that is used by most users due to its functionality. These email clients use different file formats to save their email. Due to this file format difference, compatibility issues are created when users try to move from one email client to another. To solve this issue users need to export Thunderbird emails into multiple formats.

In this article, we discuss the methods of exporting email into multiple formats for Thunderbird users and the reason for these conversions.

Thunderbird uses the MBOX format as mailbox format which is also handled by MBOX Converter for various operations

Need to Save Thunderbird into Multiple File Formats

There are various reasons for exporting Thunderbird into Multiple formats 

• One is the compatibility issue because Thunderbird email is not compatible with every platform. So the user can save it in the desired format in which they want.

• Sometimes users need to take a backup of the email into more reliable methods like PDF and HTML etc for safety purposes.

• Converting Thunderbird emails into multiple facilitates the easy sharing of the documents with colleagues, clients, and others.

• For legal purposes, users need their print-ready documents like PDFs.

• Sometimes user wants to change their email client from Thunderbird to another. So, the user needs to make the email compatible with new email clients.

• Sometimes user want to change the computer and want to their old email.

Method for Export Thunderbird Emails into Multiple Formats

There are various methods that we discuss in this section. We discuss the expert methods and manual methods for completing our task.

Expert Method for Save Thunderbird into Multiple File Formats

As we discuss how important is to change Thunderbird email into a different file format. For that, we have a professional method that is most used in every industry for handling Thunderbird mailbox. Which is also recommended by the experts. Here, we use the SysTools Thunderbird Converter.  Which is a popular tool for handling conversion tasks with Thunderbird.

Steps to use this Tool

• First of all download & install the tool in your system.

• Open this Tool in your System.

• Click on the Add Folder option from the top left corner..

• A new popup is open > Select the Thunderbird from “Select an Email Application”.

• Choose “Select file(s)/folder from File System” from right side options

• Tap the Next button to proceed.

• Browse & navigate to the location of the Thunderbird mailbox and click on the proceed button to add the folder to this tool and Export Thunderbird Emails into Multiple Formats

• Select the desired email. 

• Go to the Export Button. 

• Select the desired format from the Export Type options.

• Give the destination location where you want to save.

• Hit the Export button to start the process.

Features of this Tools

• It provides multiple export options.

• No file size restriction.

• Give the advanced filter option to filter emails.

• Compatible with Windows 11 and its below versions.

Manual Method  Export Thunderbird Emails into Multiple Formats using Add-ons

In this method, we use the free add-ons to export our emails in our desired formats. For this method, a user must have Add-ons in their Thunderbird.

For adding add-ons to Thunderbird follow these steps.

• Go to the tools for the menu (if the menu bar is not visible at the top then press Alt),

• Select the Add-ons and Themes.

• Search for “ImportExportTools NG” > and add to Thunderbird.

• Now the ImportExportTools NG is visible to the Tools list.

NOTE :- if you already have this add-on then skip these steps

Steps to Convert Thunderbird into multiple formats with this add-ons

• Right-click on the Inbox > Choose the ImportExportTools NG.

• Select Export All messages in Folder > Select the desired format in which you want the convert in this selection it will give some more options related to attachments and all according to a selected format that you choose.

• After the selection, a new popup is opened to give the folder name.

• Hit the selected folder button.

Limitations of This Method for Export Thunderbird Emails into Multiple Formats

• This method gives limited file format options.

• In this method, the user need to follow many steps if something wrong it leads to data loss

Manual Method for Save Thunderbird into Multiple File Formats using the Save AS option of Thunderbird 

In this method, the User has Thunderbird installed in their system. In this process, we use save as an option to perform conversions.

Steps to Follow

• Select the email that you want to save in a different format. 

• Right-click on the selected email. 

• Choose the Save as option from the list.

•  A popup is open giving the file name.

• Select the desired option from Save As type. 

• Hit the save button. 

Limitation

• This is a very repetitive process because which user repeats the method of each mail.

• This is a very time-consuming process and limited export options.

• Sometimes this method does not work due to various internal reasons 

Conclusion

As we discuss the methods export Thunderbird Emails into multiple formats. Users can export and manual methods according to their needs but the professional method is the fast and secure way to save Thunderbird into multiple file formats with zero data loss and file corruption.