Point to Export email in the drop-down menu, and then click Email messages.
Now click on the dark blue tab with the “down” icon in Windows Live Mail.
When you’re done, the contents of your target folders will match those of your source folders.
Repeat steps 4 and 5 for every matching source folder containing your EML files.
Select your EML files in Windows Explorer and then drag-and-drop them into the email list panel in Windows Live Mail.
Select the target folder for your EML files in Windows Live Mail.
If you have multiple folders with EML files, repeat step 2 until you’ve recreated the folder structure of your source EML messages.
Type a folder name, select the folder in which it should be created, then click OK.
Select the Folders tab and click on the New folder icon to open the Create Folder dialog box.
(This is based on Windows Live Mail 2012. Then follow this 14-step procedure for converting EML files to PST.
After the conversion is complete, close Aid4Mail 5.
Once all your settings are correct, click on Run to convert your MBOX files to EML files.
If you have multiple MBOX files in the source location, use the Folder section option under Filter to select only the MBOX files you want to process.
Confirm or change the Folder structure and File name options.
Next select the Target location for the EML files using Select.
Select EML files as your Target format.
Next add your MBOX files (local Thunderbird files) to the list by clicking on Select and then either Folder or File.
Select MBOX files from the Source format drop-down list.
Open Aid4Mail 5 and select Converter Light under Free Edition.
You’ll need to download Windows Essentials to install WLM.įirst, convert your Thunderbird files to EML with Aid4Mail Converter Light. Start by installing Aid4Mail 5 and Windows Live Mail if you haven’t already got them on your computer. It requires four programs: our free Converter Light, Windows Explorer, Windows Live Mail (WLM) and Office Outlook. But it’s by far the best free solution on the Internet. This method is a lot more complicated and time consuming.