Know Different Methodologies to AOL PFC to Thunderbird MBOX

AOL is AOL Inc. which is known as America Online. The America Online is a web portal and an Online service provider which is based on New York. AOL is brand marketed by Oath and this is exactly provided by the dial-up services as well as providing a web-portal, e-mail and then later on the web browser.

But recently the AOL has the less feature compare to the Thunderbird email client application. Therefore, the users convert AOL PFC to Thunderbird email client application. So that the below section or this entire article described how to set up AOL email in Thunderbird.

Manual Method#1: Import AOL Mail to Thunderbird

Now to set up or add AOL account to Mozilla Thunderbird follow the below-mentioned steps:

• Choose the Tools >> Account Settings or Edit >> Account Settings from the Thunderbird menu section.
• If the menu is not seen just press the Alt key.
• Hit the Account Actions.
• Choose the Add Mail Account… >> Enter the name
• Now enter the full AOL and provide the password then hit the Continue option.
• Be sure that IMAP is chosen.
• Select the POP3 to Thunderbird to download the emails from the AOL email application and not to synchronize folder and action.

Remember that, POP3, Thunderbird will be set up to delete the downloaded message from AOL late two weeks or after the user has deleted, this option can be changed which is under accounts Server Settings as by below steps:

• Click Done
• Click OK

Manual Method#2: AOL PFC to Thunderbird

Now to add AOL account to Thunderbird using below discussed steps:

• Choose Tools >> Account Settings… or Edit >> Account Settings from the menu list.
• Press on Add Account… >> verify or be sure that Email accounts are chosen >> hit on Continue.
• Enter the name in the text field:
• Mention your email address >> hit Continue.
• Be sure that IMAP is chosen.
• Mention “imap.aol.com” under incoming server >> hit Continue.
• Check Thunderbird has entered your AOL screen name in Incoming and Outgoing fields >> Hit Continue.
• Highlight Outgoing server in the list of accounts.
• Click or hit Add.. >> then type “AOL Email” which is under description.
• Under port mention the port number: 587
• Provide the screen name >> Hit OK
• From the account, list select the AOL account
• Now chose the AOL account and select AOL email – smtp.aol.com
• Now highlight the copies and folder under your AIM Mail account in the corresponding server list.
• Don’t forget to place copy and finally hit OK

AOL PFC to Thunderbird an Automated Solution

The above manual procedure is really long to follow and is really complicated and high time consuming one to import AOL Mail to Thunderbird. Therefore, the users try to prefer another kind of resolution technique like the professional tool. One of the best utility is the AOL Backup. This utility will help the users to add/ export AOL email folders to Thunderbird MBOX files.

Conclusion

The entire article is discussing the how to convert AOL PFC to Thunderbird. The manual method is discussed but due to its complexity, the users are advised to use the third-party tool. So that they could import AOL Mail to Thunderbird without any extra burden and could do with less period of time.