Editing Microsoft Outlook (section)

== Importing from other email clients ==
Traditionally, Outlook supported importing messages from [[Outlook Express]] and [[IBM Lotus Notes|Lotus Notes]]. In addition, Microsoft Outlook supports [[POP3]] and [[Internet Message Access Protocol|IMAP]] protocols, enabling users to import emails from servers that support these protocols. Microsoft Hotmail Connector add-in (described above) helps importing emails from [[Hotmail]] accounts. Outlook 2013 later integrated the functionality of this add-in and added the ability to import email (as well as a calendar) through [[Exchange ActiveSync]] protocol.<ref name="connector integrated" />

There are some ways to get the emails from [[Mozilla Thunderbird|Thunderbird]]; the first is to use a tool<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.broobles.com/imapsize/index.php |title=IMAPSize |access-date=June 25, 2009 |archive-date=November 22, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101122212435/http://www.broobles.com/imapsize/index.php |url-status=live }}</ref> that can convert a Thunderbird folder to a format that can be imported from Outlook Express. This method must be processed folder by folder. The other method is to use some free tools that keep the original folder structure.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.nektra.com/main/2009/04/14/export-messages-and-folders-from-thunderbird-to-outlook-outlook-express/|title=Export messages and folders from Thunderbird to Outlook/Outlook Express/Windows Mail|date=April 14, 2009|access-date=June 25, 2009|archive-date=May 2, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090502142315/http://blog.nektra.com/main/2009/04/14/export-messages-and-folders-from-thunderbird-to-outlook-outlook-express/|url-status=live}}</ref> If Exchange is available, an easier method is to connect the old mail client (Thunderbird) to Exchange using IMAP, and upload the original mail from the client to the Exchange account.<ref>{{Cite web|title=How to Merge PST Files {{!}} PST Merge Tool|url=http://www.howtomergepstfiles.com/|access-date=October 12, 2020|website=www.howtomergepstfiles.com|archive-date=November 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108142302/http://www.howtomergepstfiles.com/|url-status=live}}</ref>