Accessing old emails stored on hard drive
Hi – I have been with Thunderbird for a while now but didn’t use your email program as I have been using Gmail for several years and still do. When I finished with my previous ISP, I copied the folders holding all my old emails to the hard disk on my PC. Is there any way I can use Thunderbird to read/delete these emails using my hard drive as the source and without using an ISP?
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There is software you can install to convert the folder to individual messages, but there is an easy online approach: - rename the folders to have the .mbox suffix, e.g., inbox.mbox - in browser, open this site: https://products.aspose.app/email/conversion/mbox-to-eml - upload and convert each of the folders. the site will download as zip files - unzip the downloaded zip files and you will have each message stored with the .eml suffix. - to read them, start thunderbird - if menu bar isn't showing, press alt key and then select view>toolbars and tick menu bar. That will keep it viewable. - now, click File>Open>Saved message and select one of the saved eml files
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