Way to import rules from MS outlook to thunderbird

Question

I recently installed Firefox thunderbird and I want to import all the rules that I created in Outlook into thunderbird. Is there any way to import these rules?

I tried Import option in Tools menu. When I select, Filters I get only Eudora to import from. It is not listing Outlook. Also when I try Import Everything, nothing gets listed.

So is there anyway to import all the rules for Outlook to thunderbird.?

Answer 1

Thunderbird calls message rules message filters. They are not compatible, and Thunderbird doesn't know how to convert them from a Microsoft email client. There don't appear to be any utilities that know how to convert them either, possibly because there is no industry standard format for message rules/filters.

Source: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Emulate_Microsoft_email_clients#Rules