How to Convert EML Files from Different Email Clients – Complete Guide for Windows Live Mail, Outlook Express, and Mozilla Thunderbird

Nowadays, email is become a most important part of every users life or we can say that digital or technical world is nothing without emails. To manage or organize the emails, there are several applications available. Each applications supports to saves their database with different file extension. Not every, there are also some services available that supports similar file format. One such format is EML (“It is one of the most popular file extension which contains all the technical data associated with a single email message”). This file format is supported by multiple email client services such as Windows Live Mail, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird and more.

Like emails, conversion is also a most important or trending part of every technical user. As several email services available so everyone wants to use the application which is better is comparison to other. One such trending application is Outlook by Microsoft. So, in this blog, we are going to cover the following queries related to EML file format.

• How to Convert Windows Live Mail EML to Outlook?
• How to Convert Outlook Express EML to Outlook?
• How to Convert EML from Thunderbird EML to Outlook?

Before resolving these queries, let’s take an overview that why Outlook become most popular?

Benefits of MS Outlook

We know Outlook is the most popular applications nowadays. Every business users know its importance. But, to understand its importance more clearly, we are going to explain some of its awesome features.

• One of the best thing about MS Outlook is that it not only comes up with desktop app but also with web app version.
• MS Outlook allows to configure multiple email accounts at the same time to make work less time-consuming.
• Microsoft greatly improved its search facility with Outlook 2007 edition. This cloud be the best reason for users choose MS Outlook.

After knowing about its benefits, if you are interested in Outlook then please switch your recent application with Outlook.

How to Convert EML Files from Windows Live Mail, Outlook Express to Outlook?

Please read further to know the complete steps to perform such type of conversions.

Convert Windows Live Mail EML to Outlook PST

Note: To manually perform such conversions, please make sure that respective applications are properly installed in on your system.

• Run Windows Live Mail and Outlook application on your machine
• In Windows Live Mail application, click File > Export > Email Messages. After this, please select the Microsoft Exchange and click Next button

• Here, you will see a new Window Live Mail Export tab. Under the Select the format you want to export you will see the options Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Windows Live Mail. Choose the Microsoft Exchange and click Next

• Select Ok button when you reactive the message “This will export messages from Windows Live Mail to Microsoft Outlook or MS Exchange”

• From the option “Select the Mail Folder Which You Want to Export from Windows Live Mail”, select folder or all folders and then click Ok

• After performing the steps, a confirmation message box (Export Completed) open and then click Finish

These are the steps for those users who are using Windows Live Mail and want to convert Windows Live Mail files to Outlook.

Convert Outlook Express EML Messages to Outlook

• Run Outlook Express and then select the desired files which you want to export
• Now, open MS Outlook and from the File menu select Open and Export and then Select Import and Export option

• Choose the option Import Internet Mail & Addresses
• Now, select Outlook Express, Next and then Finish

Convert Thunderbird EML to Outlook

Before the version of Microsoft Outlook 2010, one can manually convert EML files from Thunderbird to Outlook PST file format by simply using drag and drop feature. But now, if you perform same method to import Thunderbird emails to Outlook then it will create a new EML file as an attachment.

As we can see that, for the several EML supportive applications, there are different methods. There are also some users due to large business, they don’t want to waste time in manual methods. For such users, there is an all-in-one utility that is Mailsware EML Converter Toolkit. It supports to convert EML files from all the EML supportive platforms.

Final Words

Hopefully, after reading the above blog, now, you are aware about MS Outlook features. Here, we have only covered the conversion of EML files from different email platform. If you are not an EML client supportive user and want to know the conversion from another platform to Outlook then we are working on it. We will regularly come up with the latest topics and will cover all the queries of users.