I had a bunch of messages in Thunderbird which I wanted to give to a coworker. I didn’t want to forward 60 messages, so I figured I’d save them as .eml files.
Unfortunately, Thunderbird only lets you save to file one message at a time. Who wants to File/SaveAs/File/OK sixty times? Not me.
Fortunately there’s a great little extension called ImportExportTools. After installing it, I went to File / Save Selected Messages / EML Format and watched it do what I didn’t want to do, sixty times.
I won’t mention all the other export and import features. Just get it and install it if you use Thunderbird. You will use it at some point.
Anje says:
ImportExportTools is an excellent addon for Thunderbird.
A great tool for performing various tasks.
However, you cam select/highlight all emails in a folder using Ctrl+A, then right click and choose ‘Save as’, then select the location and folder, click on ‘select folder’ and all emails are saved. If you are on a network they can be saved to a shared folder.
Or you could create a new folder, highlight all emails and copy to that folder. Access profile folders, copy the folder to eg: desktop
then zip the folder, send email with the zipped folder.