How to Migrate Lotus Notes Mail to Thunderbird Manually or Alternatively

Lotus Notes is used by several enterprise users to share data, similarly Thunderbird is using by several home or professional users. So there may be need to migrate Lotus Notes Mail to Thunderbird. The reasons and requirements for that migration may be any, but the problem is how to migrate Lotus Notes to Thunderbird because Lotus Notes has not direct option to do the conversion.

At this situation, several Lotus Notes users are such who are searching for solution to migrate Lotus Notes Mail to MBOX Thunderbird. They face difficulty to get exact solution. So we are here to do the migration emails from Lotus Notes to Thunderbird manually or alternatively. Before exploring about the emails migration we will discuss about the files extension of both email clients which help to understand why there is no direct solution for that.

Files Extension of Lotus Notes & Thunderbird

Lotus Notes is popular email client & server among commercial environment. It supports itself NSF files to save database notes which stands for Notes Storage Facility. It is also supported by Domino Server which connects with Lotus Notes. When users are offline then data is saved in Lotus Notes NSF files and when they are connected with internet then it automatically synchronize and make change in all database.

Thunderbird is provided by Mozilla Foundation and it is used by several home & professional users to manage & share data. It stores data in two parts -

1. With.msf extension – These files are only the summary files of emails. It has only header & summary information data of email messages. It is shown as Inbox.msf, Outbox.msf, etc.
2. Without extension – These files are main data of Thunderbird such as emails, contacts and other data. These files are shown as inbox, outbox, etc. To get.mbox extension we can rename these file with.mbox such as Inbox.mbox, Outbox.mbox, etc.

Reasons for Lotus Notes to Thunderbird Migration

There may many reasons to migrate Lotus Notes Mail to Thunderbird but few logical reasons may be that Lotus Notes is shareware email client while Thunderbird is freeware email app. Lotus Notes is not easy to use while Thunderbird can be easily handle by anyone. Some other reasons may be switching work place, interest in changing mails app, etc. But at this time, the query is how to migrate NSF emails to MBOX file format task easily, manually or alternatively.

How to Migrate Lotus Notes Mail to Thunderbird Manually

*Open Lotus Notes mail client

*Now select any mail and drag & drop at any location.

*Then Open Thunderbird and import the saved.eml email into Mozilla Thunderbird.

Repeat this task again & again then you may get Lotus Notes files into Thunderbird but there may be drawback of this manual conversion processing. Such as attachments will not be converted into Thunderbird, there may be data missing possibility, it is very lengthy process so it may waste your time from one by one migration process. It is not safe process to get 100% migration result.

Alternative Migration Process

To get complete & immediate migration process from Lotus Notes to Thunderbird, the Lotus Notes Converter is available that provides simple & quick process and is capable to migrate all NSF files from Lotus Notes to Thunderbird at once. Download Lotus Notes to Thunderbird Free Demo facility to know about How to migrate emails from Lotus Notes to Thunderbird. It is capable migrate 20 emails from NSF to MBOX without any cost. If you are searching for solution then you can try this solutions and get exact outcome for Lotus Note Mail to Thunderbird Migration.

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