Convert Outlook Express Mails To MBOX Format

When I set up the laptop for my brother I decided to use Ubuntu instead of Windows. But as he used to have Windows installed, the mail program he used was Outlook Express. So I was looking for a way to convert his .dbx mail folders to the MBOX format (which Thunderbird can read) under Ubuntu.

I found the tool DbxConv which runs under wine.

And here is how to use it:

wine /path/to/DbxConv.exe "FolderName.dbx"

This gets you a file called “FolderName.mbx” which you can open in Thunderbird and for example copy via IMAP to Gmail.



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