How To Convert Mutt Mail To Outlook PST File

Mutt is a powerful, text based desktop email application mainly used to read electronic email under Unix operating systems. Originally it was built as a Mail User Agent (MUA) but with the passing years it is used as a mail client having numbers of in-built commands and configuration directives. Most of the mail storing format like notably MBOX, MAILDIR, MH, MMDF etc. supported by it.

 This email client stores emails in separate folders and the default location of its folder is $MAIL shell variable. In the starting, emails are displayed in spool file at "/var/spool/mail/USER".  Already accepted mails are shifted to 'mbox' folder by making the variable 'move=yes'. Mutt works superb with four different mailbox formats like MBOX, MAILDIR, MH and MMDF. User can also define the format used in $mbox_type, according to their choice.

Why Mutt Mail to PST Conversion is needed?

Many professional prefer MS outlook for emailing purposes. In spite, of having such user friendly Mail Client sometime users want to shift to windows outlook for some purpose, in that case it is very important for you to convert all the Mutt folder data to PST file format because MS Outlook for Windows supports PST format. In order to access the Mutt MBOX data in outlook it is compulsory to convert MBOX files to PST (Personal Storage Table) format.

How to Convert Mutt to Outlook PST?

If you want to transfer Mutt email client into Outlook by using the data in MBOX files. Then actually, it’s not possible without making conversion because it can’t recognize MBOX format. So, for that you need to convert MBOX files inPST format by using the third party MBOX to PST conversion software, as it is the best recommended email migration tool to convert MBOX files of different mail clients such as Entourage, Thunderbird etc. As by using this software Outlook installation is not required to covert and transfer mutt mail to outlook PST file.