Mozilla Thunderbird is a great free email client which works on Windows, Apple Mac Computer and Linux.

The best thing about Mozilla Thunderbird is not only is it free, it also has a been a round a long time (in computer years) and has a massive following, which means it doesn’t look like its going anywhere anytime soon.

Because so many people use Thunderbird, there are a lot of free addons and plugins you can download for Thunderbird which people have developed themselves and share with the greater community.

Just say you want to change the way Thunderbird looks – you can download a new skin or theme.

Or if you wanted to send an email at a later date, have contact tabs across the top or a better way to organise your folders, there is literally a add-on for just about anything!

Why would you need to move Mozilla Thunderbird

There are many reasons why you would want to move your email to a new computer.

Your old computer might be unstable or need to be upgraded, or your simply moving to a better machine. If you set your computer up with IMAP it might be as simple as putting your email credentials into your new installation of Mozilla Thunderbird on your new computer.

But if you use offline files which have been installed on your computers profile in Thunderbird or you still use POP email where your emails are sucked from your online mail storage into your computer, you are going to have to move your Thunderbird from your old computer to the new.

The good news is, it is very simple to do and if your old computer does not even turn on but the internal hard drive works, you can gran your Thunderbird from that hard drive and copy onto the new.

How to Move Your Thunderbird Files from One Computer to Another

Mozilla Thunderbird makes it super easy to move email from one computer to another. A lot of email programs have merge functions which can help a lot, but sometimes they miss files and can be quite over complicated.

If you are moving your emails from one Windows computer to another, all you have to do is move the folders.

Once you have Mozilla Thunderbird installed on your new computer or laptop.

All you have to do is move the profile from your old computer to the new on an external hard drive. If you do not know where your profile is, please click on this link, Mozilla.

There is no integration or complicated process. You simply copy your profile from the old computer into the new.