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Import of old mails when installing Thunderbird

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I'm about to change mail client from Windows Live Mail (WLM) to Thunderbird. The last few months the export function in WLM no longer works. This means that I can't add all my existing mails to Thunderbird the normal way using export / import. All the existing mails in WLM are stored as eml-filer in a map called Windows Live Mail. Could I use these eml-files to add the mails to Thunderbird? Could I do this addition already when installing Thunderbird or do I have to do it after the installation?

I'm about to change mail client from Windows Live Mail (WLM) to Thunderbird. The last few months the export function in WLM no longer works. This means that I can't add all my existing mails to Thunderbird the normal way using export / import. All the existing mails in WLM are stored as eml-filer in a map called Windows Live Mail. Could I use these eml-files to add the mails to Thunderbird? Could I do this addition already when installing Thunderbird or do I have to do it after the installation?

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you will have to do it after, and the folder structure may well be lost.

use this too lhttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/

Basically create a folder in local folders in Thunderbird, right click and select importexporttools > import all messages from a directory > include sub directories.

Point the file picked to the folder with the EML files in it. wait and continue the scrip of it times out. I have seen this tool do that with very large folders of mail