Import Lotus Notes to Outlook Using NSF to PST Converter

If you are planning to import Lotus Notes to Outlook? Then it is important to keep in mind that, you have to import all your HCL Notes data such as emails, contacts, and calendars into Outlook. Both of the email clients are used by many organizations for business purposes. However, both email clients use different file formats.

Lotus Notes supports NSF file format and Microsoft Outlook supports PST file format. So technically it is impossible to open the NSF file into Outlook. Therefore, in this write-up, we are going to discuss the best and easy way to import HCL Notes .nsf file into Outlook .pst file. So, stay with us and learn how to convert HCL Notes emails to PST in an effective manner with the CubexSoft NSF converter

Why Users Need to Import Lotus Notes Emails to Outlook?

There are various reasons behind importing .nsf file to Outlook some of them are listed below:

• User Interface: – The interface of HCL Notes is not a user-friendly GUI, it is so complicated to understand for normal users. And does not provide various features for users to access mailbox data.
• Account synchronization problem: – Due to the complicated user interface, the process of account synchronization is very difficult and the user needs some technical expertise to configure email accounts into HCL Notes.
• Pricing: – Pricing is another reason, that forces users to import Lotus Notes to Outlook. Because users have to pay a huge amount of money to buy this email client.
• Data and Account management: – In HCL Notes users can operate a single account at a time and if users want to change the account, then he/she has to change the account setting. Data management is also another reason because in Outlook users can save their data in PST or OST file format according to account configurations. But in HCL Notes the format of data of emails, calendars, contacts, all are stored in NSF file format.

How to Import HCL Notes to Outlook 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010?

HCL Notes and Microsoft Outlook support different file formats to save their mailbox data. Due to that, there is no manual method available for this process. First, you have to change your .nsf file into .pst then you will able to import .pst file into Outlook.  CubexSoft NSF to PST Converter is the best and most searched software for this task. Most of the professionals suggest this tool to import .nsf file into Outlook. This tool completes the whole process in a few minutes.

This tool is capable to convert all HCL Notes .nsf file like emails, contacts, calendars, tasks, notes, and journals into Outlook 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007, and 2003 as well as migrating contacts into separate PST files.

By using this tool users can convert all their emails with attachments. And users can able to save emails and contacts in a single PST file using this tool. If users want to switch from HCL Notes to Exchange Server environments then this software can export bulk data from NSF to Exchange mailboxes server. This software can maintain the folder and subfolder hierarchy after importing Lotus Notes to Outlook. This tool provides many filters such as a date-based filter for journals, a filter for duplicate contacts, an email filter and so on which helps users to filter their emails in the importing process.

For security concerns, some of the .nsf files are in encrypted form and this tool is capable of removing the encryption option. This software maintains the internet header of all emails during the conversion process. The most important feature of this software is GUI which makes it easy to use as well as it supports all the latest versions of Microsoft Outlook.

Software Working Steps to Import Lotus Notes to Outlook

Note – The tool works with Lotus Notes 9.0.1 & below versions only.

Download and install the software on your machine to Import Lotus Notes to Outlook

Now, click on the Select Files/Folders button to add .nsf file that you want to convert

After that, click on the Export button to choose PST saving output formats from the list.

Now, browse the desired location to save the resultant PST file and click on the Convert button

How to Import Resultant PST file into Outlook 2019, 2016, 2013?

After the Lotus Notes to Outlook PST conversion process, you have .pst file in your local system now to complete the process you have to import the resultant .pst file into Outlook. We using Outlook 2016 for the importing process (Outlook 2019, 2016, and 2013 have the same interface and import PST options). So, follow the steps mentioned below:

1. Open Outlook and then click on File Option >> Open & Export >> Import/Export
2.  Under Import and Export Wizard choose Import from another program or file
3. Now, select Outlook Data File(.pst) then Next
4.  After that, click on the Browse button to select your resultant .pst file
5. Now, select the Folder where you want to transfer the data file and then click on Finish
6. After all the settings, your Imported PST files will be displayed on the left side pane in Outlook

Conclusion

HCL Notes is a very secure and business-oriented email client. However, due to some reasons and a complicated user interface, most of the users switched to Outlook. Hence, in this write-up, we have discussed the effective way to import Lotus Notes to Outlook.