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From your old mail app to Outlook

Moving mail takes two short steps: export your mailbox as MBOX, then open the PST we create in Outlook. These guides walk you through both, click by click.

№ 01Export

Export Gmail with Google Takeout

Download your whole Gmail account (labels included) as a single .mbox file.

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№ 02Export

Export mail from Thunderbird

Find the mbox files Thunderbird already keeps in your profile folder.

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№ 03Export

Export mailboxes from Apple Mail

Use Mailbox → Export Mailbox to create .mbox packages on your Mac.

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№ 04Import

Import a PST into Outlook

Open or import your converted PST in Outlook for Windows, Mac and new Outlook.

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Know your parcel

What is an MBOX file, and which one do I upload?

MBOX is one of the oldest and most widely used formats for storing email. A single .mbox file holds many messages one after another, each with its headers, body and attachments. Gmail, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Yahoo, mutt, Evolution and many other tools can export or already store mail this way.

  • Gmail (Google Takeout): upload All mail Including Spam and Trash.mbox from the Takeout/Mail folder after extracting the archive.
  • Thunderbird: upload the extension-less files in your profile’s Mail or ImapMail folders (for example Inbox, Sent). Drop the whole folder and we skip the .msf index files for you.
  • Apple Mail: upload the .mbox folders created by Export Mailbox…. Each one contains a file named mbox; we name the result after the folder.
  • Other apps: any file in standard mbox format works, whatever its extension.

You can add several mailboxes to one conversion; they all end up in a single PST file. Archives such as .zip or .tgz need to be extracted first.

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