Comment importer des contacts dans Outlook?

MS Outlook fait partie de la série de produits Outlook que Microsoft continue d'offrir gratuitement dans le cadre de ses versions Windows. La version initiale avait suffisamment de bogues et de problèmes, qui a déterminé de nombreux utilisateurs à devenir fidèles à d'autres clients de messagerie de bureau, comme Thunderbird, La chauve-souris, etc. Tout cela a fourni une diversité intéressante et des solutions uniques aux mêmes problèmes. La situation semble avoir changé de nos jours lorsque Outlook est devenu un produit beaucoup plus raffiné avec une base d'utilisateurs incroyablement large. (approximativement 400 millions de personnes).

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Le passé de MS Outlook et la concurrence

Au même, de nombreux autres clients de messagerie ne pouvaient tout simplement pas suivre le rythme du marché ou trouvaient simplement les efforts financièrement injustifiés. Un exemple typique est Thunderbird, l'application open source développée par Mozilla qui a eu une assez grande popularité au cours de la dernière décennie. Cette situation a obligé de nombreux utilisateurs fidèles à exporter Thunderbird vers Outlook in order to address the insecurity related to the future of Mozilla’s product. la qualité et la diversité des extensions sont meilleures pour le produit Microsoft, such migration is made possible by specialized software.

Exporting Contacts From Other Email Clients

Software tools that allow one to import emails from specific email clients also normally help to import contacts to Outlook from the same applications. All this data is ultimately integrated into the PST file (the native storage format for the Microsoft application). With certain applications, it might be required to export email or contact data into a universal format such as .eml files in the first case and .vCard files in the second case. In the case of Thunderbird, there are tools that can perform the conversion without any additional export steps.

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Things To Take Into Account When Choosing An Appropriate Conversion Tool

The size of contact data is usually minuscule compared to that of emails plus attachments. Néanmoins, it might very tiresome to transform each record in the appropriate format for MS Outlook by hand. This alone can justify the use of specially designed applications. When considering what to expect from a software tool that would help you efficiently export both the emails and the contacts from an application like Thunderbird, the following things should be aimed for:

  • a decluttered and intuitive user interface that hides unnecessary complexity;
  • automatic location of the Thunderbird installation folder (and specifically, of contact files) – often, folders don’t have intuitive names and even so, contact files might be difficult to locate, so it’s better when the software manages this problem;
  • direct output either to your Outlook account or to a PST file on the local hard drive;
  • full automation of the conversion process;
  • avoiding uploading sensitive information (emails or contacts) to an online platform or server. In other words, it is better when the conversion is processed locally, on your device.

Conclusion

De conclure, it seems that the long development history of a product aimed both towards enterprises and individuals finally paid out, with MS Outlook becoming the most popular option on the market. Given its ongoing quality support and clear prospects for the future, it is also a product to which even many loyal users of other competing platforms (par exemple. Thunderbird) migrate. Regardless of whether email or contact data needs to be transferred, this can be easily achieved by using specialized software tools.