Migrate Mac Mail to Thunderbird can be a breeze, if you have a proper conversion tool. This post talks about one of such conversion tools that is simply the best regarding Mac Mail conversion needs.
Mac Mail to Thunderbird Converter
Migrating Mac Mail to Thunderbird means getting all mails, contacts, calendar, and every element associated with them transferred without the loss of details. This is hard particularly because there is no common data file native to both email clients. People wrongly assume that they can use MBOX files but unfortunately Mac Mail doesn’t use standard MBOX files.
You can archive Mac Mail data to MBOX files through various means but all of them are inefficient and time consuming. And it doesn’t often get the data migrated with the details and metadata preserved.
Therefore, the best way to migrate Mac Mail to Thunderbird, including all the emails, contacts, calendar data, and the minute elements associated with them (images, attachments, headers, folders, and the structure) is to use a third-party migration utility. That is developed professionally keeping the challenges and complexities into consideration. Too bad that there are few utilities like that and the quality of the output you will get highly depends on which tool you get.
Migrate Mac Mail to Thunderbird
This post will make that decision easier for you. While there are dozens of Mac Mail to Thunderbird converter. None are as professionally developed with a smart UI and advanced algorithms as “Mail Extractor Max”.
The most prominent element of “Mail Extractor Max” that sets it apart from rest of the generic tools, besides a friendly UI, is the algorithms that do all the data-processing work. This outputs the data with high precision, leaving no chance for losing the details like images, attachments, and metadata.
Keeping the data integrity intact during migration is the most challenging part. This utility gets it right, especially the three big tricky parts of all databases: folder hierarchy, Unicode text, and MIME defined content.
Folder Hierarchy:
This means how your folders are arranged within Mac Mail database. “Mail Extractor Max” is one of the few solutions that will convert all of the folders to Thunderbird without displacing a single folder. It keeps the entire structure preserved.
Unicode text:
English text characters are encoded using ASCII but for the modern day communication. It is important to have a standard that can incorporate any language. And thus, most email databases have Unicode encoding to get the other languages right. For example, Chinese and its variants (Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, etc.). These are particularly hard because unlike English text that uses single-byte, these use double-byte to encode a single text character. “Mail Extractor Max” has the dedicated support to process the text in Unicode. It will convert your emails without missing any single one of them.
MIME defined content:
MIME is a modern-day standard for emails that support more complex format of emails. It also includes text in format other than ASCII (see above), non-text attachments (media, images, and application files), messages with multiple parts, and trickiest of all, header information in non-ASCII characters. MIME content is particularly difficult to extract and convert during Mac Mail to Thunderbird migration. But “Mail Extractor Max” has pretty much perfected that, ensuring you the most thorough conversion possible.
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Try it to migrate Mac Mail to Thunderbird
The trial version of “Mail Extractor Max” is completely free. It works without any time limit, and has no limitations on its premium features. It’s identical to the full version except it converts ten items per folder within Mac Mail database.
You can download the installer here to migrate Mac Mail to Thunderbird.