For its emailing and several advanced features, Office 365 is being used among users. However, it has been observed that several users demand to switch from Office 365 mail to Thunderbird. Mozilla Thunderbird being one of the best and free email clients has been the prominent choice of users for a long time. Due to several advantages offered by this desktop email application, users wish to move their O365 user account to Thunderbird. In this section, we will discuss how to configure Office 365 account to Thunderbird so that the users can easily access their O365 emails and other data items in the Mozilla Thunderbird application. Let us discuss the user queries regarding the export of Office 365 to Thunderbird.
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Many users attempt to move to Thunderbird so that they can easily access their data on the local desktop location. Some of the possible reasons for using Thunderbird with Office 365 are:
There are two possible solutions to connect Office 365 to Thunderbird. One is the manual and another is the automated solution. Let’s discuss each one in detail.
While migrating to an alternate email application, the major concern of every user is to retain the existing mailbox. The user always desires to access the emails and other data items from Office 365 in the Thunderbird account. The following manual method helps with Office 365 Thunderbird setup.
Limitation of Manual Method
It has been reported that the manual procedure does not download all the messages to the new account and often leads to loss of data. This is not an efficient solution to connect Thunderbird to Office 365. This makes it problematic for users who wish to maintain data integrity and consistency while they export Office 365 mailboxes to Thunderbird.
Now we have analyzed the limitations of the manual approach. It’s time to go ahead and look for an efficient solution. The Office 365 Export Tool is the one that can generate the Thunderbird supporting file. This tool is easy to operate and completes the task without any errors. Along with the Date Filter for the selection of data, this tool also has some advanced features such as Delta, Re-retry migration, and many more. You just need to execute the below steps to create the Thunderbird supporting file that can be imported into Thunderbird easily. You can Export Office 365 mailbox to PST it required by selecting the option of Outlook.
The tool carries out migration of Office 365 data items in the following steps:
Step 1. Download the tool. Select Office 365 as the Source and MBOX as the destination.After completing the above steps, an MBOX is file generated having all the emails of the Office 365 account. Now it’s time to connect Thunderbird to Office 365 by the resulting MBOX file.
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Understanding the need to connect Office 365 mail to Thunderbird, we have discussed the manual method as well as the automated approach for mailbox transfer. The users can easily switch within client applications without any data loss by using these methods. We have also discussed the limitations of the manual method & an alternative method to configure Thunderbird for Office 365.