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I have just started using Ubuntu & Thunderbird.

I have saved my Outlook emails in my hard disk and they have an .msg extension. Now when I try to open them in Thunderbird it doesn't open them because Thunderbird used .eml extension.

Please advise how I can convert my old emails from Outlook into Thunderbird format.

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Install the following modules:

sudo apt-get install libemail-outlook-message-perl libemail-localdelivery-perl

When installed, download the .pl file named msgconvert.pl, then run:

./msgconvert.pl --mbox [desiredFilename].eml [currentFileName].msg

Now you can open your .eml file in thunderbird.

Reference:

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    msgconvert.pl is not available for public access
    – Ilja
    Jun 16, 2015 at 19:21
  • @Ilja , can't seem to contact the original author(source part in my A).
    – blade19899
    Jun 16, 2015 at 21:06
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    I think to download msgconvert.pl manually is not a good way. Better use system tools from Perl: sudo cpan -i Email::Outlook::Message
    – Jaime M.
    Feb 2, 2016 at 11:19
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    Echoing @JaimeM., I think future visitors would be best served by msgconvert.pl's author's blog post, his github, or the official Perl stuff his script became.
    – Michael come lately
    Sep 12, 2016 at 19:58
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    Opening that Google Docs link in private browsing, I get a 403 no authorization error. I'm replacing it with the link to the raw Github file instead from @Michael's comment.
    – muru
    Sep 19, 2017 at 7:18
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This is a online tool to convert mail files into different formats, eml included: Online Mail Converter

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    Good to know but this is not suitable for many purposes such as emails containing private or sensitive company information.
    – augurar
    Aug 31, 2015 at 17:52
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Just save the mail in .txt format and change the extension to .eml

Saw it here and it works: Super User - How to save a mail into an .eml-file with Outlook?

The most funny is that there are proprietary converter for that!

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    Saving as .txt doesn't preserve the entire message headers and attachments. it's just the body and basic headers and isn't .eml format.
    – matpie
    Dec 7, 2015 at 21:00

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