Jason Florek | December 3rd, 2019 | Email-Tips, File Converter, How to, Outlook
Sylpheed is a simple, lightweight, open-source email client available for multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and other Unix-like systems. This email client provides various features such as password protection, encryptions, spam filtering and so on. Sylpheed stores all emails and attachment in a file with no extension (Commonly knows as MBOX file format).
But, when compared Sylpheed to standard email clients like Outlook. It is not that much efficient email client. And it is not so popular as Outlook in professional section. Due to which both personal and professional users tend to switch from Sylpheed to Outlook.
Note:- In 2005 Sylpheed was known as Claws Mail, but in 2015 both projects continue to be developed independently. Hence, there is any need to access Claws Mail data into Outlook email client you have to convert Claws Mail to PST.
As we said above, Sylpheed stores its data in a file format which is not compatible with MS Outlook. For such purpose, Outlook stores its emails data in PST file format.
Moreover, if you want to access Sylpheed emails data in Outlook, the best course of action is to convert Sylpheed Mailbox to PST file format. To do this, the whole process is classified in two phases.
So, let’s start the process.
To get the Sylpheed mailbox file Go to the default location- C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\Sylpheed\Mailboxes\Mail and copy the file to another location. If you unable to do this, follow the below mentioned steps to export mailbox as Unix MBOX file format.
Step 1: Open Sylpheed and click on File option.
Step 2: After that, click on Export mail data.
Step 3: Now, choose the destination location to save the exported file.
Step 4: Enter the name of the file as per your choice and click on Save button.
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Phase 2: Convert Sylpheed Mailbox to PST
Due to file format compatibility issue, there is no manual method available to convert Sylpheed mailbox to PST. Thus, try an automated solution. DataHelp MBOX to PST Converter is the most advanced and best toolkit for the conversion process. This tool convert Sylpheed mailbox data into PST in few minutes without any data loss.
Step 1: Download and install the software in your local machine.
Step 2: Now, click on Select to choose the mailbox data from Sylpheed which you want to convert in PST.
Step 3: After that, click on Convert button to start the conversion process of Sylpheed to PST.
After a couple of minutes, all your mailbox data will be converted into PST, Now, you can import that resultant PST file into Outlook.
This tool is not limited to converting data. It has a wide range of enterprise level features. Some of them listed below.
Sylpheed is an open-source email application. But due to lack of email management functionalities found in standard email clients such as Outlook. Which is why users of Sylpheed often switch to Outlook. Thus go through the article and learn to complete the conversion process in an effective manner.