How to Export The Bat to Outlook PST File

Approved By Aswin Vijayan

Published On October 14th, 2022

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Summary: The article provides the method to export emails from The Bat to Outlook email client. Here, you will learn the method to extract mailbox data from The Bat and transfer it to Outlook 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007 & 2003.

The Bat! is a desktop email client for Windows. It is a commercial email application that provides all-around protection to users’ data. The main focus of The Bat! is to deliver a secure email client with powerful filters. The user interface is also easy to understand and use.

Although The Bat is a good email client, it still seems pale in comparison to MS Outlook both in terms of the number of users and work performance. One can get Outlook with Office 365 suite and well as easily integrate it with the Exchange server. Thus, making it the most familiar email client for corporate and mid-level businesses.

With the hope of better workflow and productivity, organizations and individuals shift from The Bat to Outlook. In this article, we hope to clear the most common notions while exporting The Bat mailbox into Outlook and provide a method for seamless conversion.

A Two-Step Method to Export The Bat to Outlook

The first and foremost step during any migration is to prepare the mailbox data in a suitable format. In terms of Outlook, PST would be the most suitable file format. However, Bat Mail does not provide an option to export files to PST. It has three export options:

Unix mailbox (MBOX)
EML
MSG (Not Outlook .msg)

Here, we will choose the Unix mailbox during The Bat to Outlook transfer task. And then convert MBOX to PST format. Thus, allowing users to easily import them in Outlook.

Do You Know?

Users often mistake the MSG files of The Bat with MS Outlook. But in reality these two are completely different. You can consider the .msg files of The Bat to be simply EML files whose extensions have been changed.

Thus, importing these pseudo .msg files result in incomplete email data with loss of email attributes. Also, you may even require third-party tools to simply import these files in a correct manner. That is why, it is recommended to export The Bat data to Unix mailbox and convert it into PST. This method is much more reliable and prevents loss of data if the steps in this article are followed.

#1 Export Messages from The Bat to Unix Mailbox

Run The Bat client and highlight all the messages you want to transfer to Outlook.
Go to the Tools
Select Export messages and click on UNIX Mailbox…

Set the location to save all the selected messages and give the MBOX file a name.
Click Save to export data successfully.

Now, you either need to convert this data to PST or simply import MBOX to Outlook. To do either, follow the instructions in the next sections.

#2 Convert The Bat to Outlook PST

Download and Install the DataHelp MBOX to PST Converter on the Windows system. This software prevents loss of data and executes the operation at an excellent speed and efficiency. It is a proven application to convert multiple Unix mailbox files of The Bat to PST files. Afterwards, the PST file can be imported into the preferred Outlook version.

Follow these steps to export emails from The Bat to Outlook:

Run the tool and click Select Files to choose an option for adding mailbox files.

select the bat files

Now, select and import the Unix Mailbox files exported earlier from The Bat.

import mbox

Click on the Convert.

convert emails

Select the target location to save the PST files and click Ok.

target location

The process will conclude without any problems. Click Ok on the confirmation window.

export the bat to pst

Once the files are converted into PST format, you can easily import them in Outlook by using the native Import/Export option.

To do this, open Outlook and select File, Open & Export, Import / Export, Import from another file or program, Outlook data file, Finish in a sequential manner.

Why Do We Care?

The Bat, being a commercial email client, is generally used by businesses. Even individuals often use it for work-related purposes. So, when they are switching to Outlook, each day that passes by greatly hinders the work and productivity of such individuals. In a similar fashion, corruption of data or data loss is also a pain in the neck.

That’s why we proposed the best possible way to export The Bat to Outlook. Using these instructions, one can easily transfer The Bat emails into Outlook 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007 & 2003.