Comments on: Importing mail from Opera to Thunderbird

By: Annie

Annie — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:01:28 +0000

Had to convert to Opera for a while and have now reconverted to Thunderbird for my emails. Found a workaround for those who already have an Inbox and Sent in Thunderbird but still want to import their emails from Opera: Create in Thunderbird two (or more) new subfolders to Inbox. Export your mails from Opera according to the instructions above, and replace the newly created folders without the extension with the files from Opera. Then all you have to do is open up Thunderbird and voilá: all your Opera mails are in there too, in your Inbox subfolders. If you want to re-integrate the mails after that, it’s just Drag and Drop…

THANK YOU fot the very helpful comments above!!

By: MJ Oakes

MJ Oakes — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:34:46 +0000

Thanks for this–I didn’t like Opera’s handling of folders so thus the switch to Thunderbird. You’ve saved me from losing some important emails and your instructions were very clear.

By: mmo

mmo — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:29:40 +0000

Thank you for detailed guide, the export-import was much easier than I hope it formerly!

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:39:10 +0000

Thanks so much for posting this guide. I have just successfully resurrected some very important emails from my Opera (.mbs) file into Thunderbird following your advice. All worked well and I’m a happy man!

By: Kai

Kai — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:46:31 +0000

I found that even Thunderbird can get overwhelmed by spam, so I’m using an additional trick I found on the interweb–

1. Set up a gmail account

2. Forward mail from your POP account to the gmail account (if you can configure your server preferences)

3. Have Thunderbird check your Gmail account (via POP)

This way you can use Gmails very good spam filtering on top of Thunderbird. The result is nearly air tight.