Lotus Notes to Thunderbird

My problem: Moving jobs, need to convert my personal nsf emails to a universally format (read free, open source) that can run on my mac / pc without me spending a single penny. If you do have extra dollars to spare there are bunch of software readily available … and you are reading the wrong post.

Solution: Tech[niques] has a bunch of articles on exporting your email from Lotus Notes to Outlook Express Email Messages and then finally import it to Thunderbird.

Things to keep in mind:

• You need to create some scripts, so some technical background is required. Mostly copy / paste but it is possible you might need to debug
• Emails with embedded images will throw an exception, I simply ignored such emails
• It took roughly ~15 mins to archive ~1500 emails, 150MB in size – not bad!