Import Thunderbird Mails to Microsoft Outlook 2003-Tutorial

Thunderbird is a lean and mean e-mail client, which is why it is so popular. But sometimes, for some reason or the other, people have to switch to Microsoft Outlook Express or Outlook 2003. However, Thunderbird saves its mails in the MBOX format, which is incompatible with other e-mail clients. Unfortunately, Thunderbird does not have any option to 'export' its mails to another e-mail client.

But since it is an open source software, there is a large community of people who develop plug-ins to do various things in it. Someone must have thought about the e-mail migration issue and therefore developed a plug-in known as ImportExportTools (MboxImport enhanced), which can be downloaded from http://www.nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html. We'll show you today how you can use it to make your Thunderbird mails accessible in Outlook Express or Outlook 2003.


The first thing you need to do is download the mentioned plug-in for Thunderbird to your desktop. Now launch Thunderbird, click on Tools and select Add-ons.

Locate the .XPI file you had downloaded before. Select it and click Open.

Click Install Now and the plug-in will get installed. You will now be asked to restart Thunderbird for the plug-in to take effect. Restart Thunderbird.

Once Thunderbird is up and running again, you will be notified about the new plug-in you just installed. Close the Add-ons window.


Now to export the mails, right-click on your local folder in the left pane, move your mouse over Import/Export > Export all messages in the folder and click EML format. Click Browse and go to a suitable folder (in our example, it is named Track IT_20090414-1125) on the desktop. The mail export process will start immediately.

Once the export process completes, open Outlook Express. Create a local folder in the left pane as shown in the figure. Now open the folder Track IT_20090414-1125\messages (according to our example) and drag and drop all the EML files it contains to your Outlook Express Track IT folder.

Once Thunderbird is up and running again, you will be notified about the new plug-in you just installed. Close the Add-ons window.


Now to export the mails, right-click on your local folder in the left pane, move your mouse over Import/Export > Export all messages in the folder and click EML format. Click Browse and go to a suitable folder (in our example, it is named Track IT_20090414-1125) on the desktop. The mail export process will start immediately.

Once the export process completes, open Outlook Express. Create a local folder in the left pane as shown in the figure. Now open the folder Track IT_20090414-1125\messages (according to our example) and drag and drop all the EML files it contains to your Outlook Express Track IT folder.

Once Thunderbird is up and running again, you will be notified about the new plug-in you just installed. Close the Add-ons window.


Now to export the mails, right-click on your local folder in the left pane, move your mouse over Import/Export > Export all messages in the folder and click EML format. Click Browse and go to a suitable folder (in our example, it is named Track IT_20090414-1125) on the desktop. The mail export process will start immediately.

Once the export process completes, open Outlook Express. Create a local folder in the left pane as shown in the figure. Now open the folder Track IT_20090414-1125\messages (according to our example) and drag and drop all the EML files it contains to your Outlook Express Track IT folder.

Once Thunderbird is up and running again, you will be notified about the new plug-in you just installed. Close the Add-ons window.


Now to export the mails, right-click on your local folder in the left pane, move your mouse over Import/Export > Export all messages in the folder and click EML format. Click Browse and go to a suitable folder (in our example, it is named Track IT_20090414-1125) on the desktop. The mail export process will start immediately.

Once the export process completes, open Outlook Express. Create a local folder in the left pane as shown in the figure. Now open the folder Track IT_20090414-1125\messages (according to our example) and drag and drop all the EML files it contains to your Outlook Express Track IT folder.

Once Thunderbird is up and running again, you will be notified about the new plug-in you just installed. Close the Add-ons window.


Now to export the mails, right-click on your local folder in the left pane, move your mouse over Import/Export > Export all messages in the folder and click EML format. Click Browse and go to a suitable folder (in our example, it is named Track IT_20090414-1125) on the desktop. The mail export process will start immediately.

Once the export process completes, open Outlook Express. Create a local folder in the left pane as shown in the figure. Now open the folder Track IT_20090414-1125\messages (according to our example) and drag and drop all the EML files it contains to your Outlook Express Track IT folder.

You will now be able to see your mail in Outlook Express. Repeat the procedure for other local folders such as Inbox, Sent items, Drafts, etc.


Now to get this same mail to Outlook 2003, launch Outlook 2003, click File > Import and Export > Import from another program or file, select Outlook Express 4.x, 5.x, 6.x and click Finish. Now you will be able to see that all your mails are available in your Outlook 2003 as well. It is as simple as that!

File Extension MTS

Some times you may face issues in opening some files with different extensions and we may need special software to open that file. There are lot of files that may need an extension application to open it and one among them is the .ica type files.There are three different types File Extension MTS. They are an Image Object Content Architecture (IOCA) Graphics file, a Citrix Independent Computer Architecture file, or an Identity Compass Answers file. Within those three type of File Extension MTS, the first one is the most common. Here are some short explanation about them each.

The IOCA graphics format is developed by IBM in order to get a single compound document for multiple text and graphic elements. About Citrix’ Independent Computing Architecture (ICA), it is technology for allowing multiple computer users to access applications that hosted by a central server. The last, Identity Compass, it is an employment evaluation and profiling system can be used to help make selecting the right personnel a more productive exercise.

For all the software you install in your pc it will be registered in the system registry of the system and that registry file is responsible for every file to be opened. Sometimes your Windows is unable to open File Extension MTS. That might be caused by the missing registry files in your system. Just use Drivers Update for fix this problem. It has got everything you need. All you have to do is just visit the site.http://www.fileextensionmts.com/