At the moment, a lot of email programs could be used for sending and receiving messages. Two such are Thunderbird from Mozilla and Lotus Notes from IBM from Mozilla and Lotus Notes from IBM. Daily use of these tools is made by an astounding majority of businesses and companies.

Both Thunderbird and IBM Lotus Notes are rather popular desktop email applications that users often switch between. The cost of the subscription forces customers to migrate to free products like Thunderbird even if IBM Notes offers the most strong and safe features. An open-source tool, the Mozilla Thunderbird email client allows anyone to download and use it for free absolutely.

A basic approach for straight importing Lotus Notes NSF files straight into MBOX 

entered into the Thunderbird email client to safely access Lotus Notes NSF data. Downloading the program that translates NSF files into MBOX files is what we advise. It generates ten percent of help and one hundred percent of a migration quality. The utility can rapidly extract every folder and subdirectory from the Notes database independent of folder or subfolder size. It also allows one to translate all NSF format email messages and attachments into the MBOX format.

Some of the capabilities the NSF to MBOX Converter provides are listed here:

•  Software of the best quality able to quickly access Lotus Notes databases.
• The MBOX file that resulted keeps the folder organization intact.
• Save a backup of every attachment, detail, and email signature.
• An integrated preview tool enabling the assessment of the NSF file recovery quality
• Emails can be turned into Thunderbird MBOX files including all the embedded images, hyperlinks, styles, coloring, and other elements found in the emails.
• The program fits all IBM Lotus Notes versions and is simple enough to start with.

Here's a fast guide on exporting Lotus Notes to Thunderbird Mobile Mailbox.

• Any Windows machine should have NSF to MBOX converter installed after download.
• You will have to click the "Add NSF" button after the program opens.
• After choosing the Lotus Notes NSF file, load it, and then click the "Start Scanning" button to start the process of data recovery.
• • All that the tool needs is to choose the elements and directories that are needed; it will thus automatically acquire all the data from the NSF file.
• Click the "Convert" button on the toolbar to open the box indicating the location of the file to be stored as a last step.
• Pressing the "Convert" button alone will launch the conversion process from its start.
• This software will display a dialog box stating "Conversion completed successfully" every time the process of converting an NSF file to an MBOX file finishes.

Last Words

Lotus Notes cannot be manually or for free transferred to the Thunderbird email client. The single program thought to be the best tool for customers in order to achieve this process is the NSF to MBOX Converter Software. This is a great substitute for those wishing to convert NSF files into Thunderbird-compatible files and forward emails from Lotus Notes to Thunderbird.