Transfer from pc outlook express to mac mail ?????
May 28, 2008 | 7:25 am
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Transfer from pc outlook express to mac mail ?????
Does anyone here know how to transfer all the mail from a PC and outlook express to mail on a mac?
And what about the address book?
Thanks in advance
/E
And what about the address book?
Thanks in advance
/E
May 28, 2008 | 9:12 am
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heres two i found below.
http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=3059
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...40325164915651
http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=3059
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...40325164915651
May 28, 2008 | 3:17 pm
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the advice in the first link
http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=3059
is good. but the instructions on the above web page are a little vague and you will save yourself some time if you carefully read the instructions that you download with the Eudora Mailbox Cleaner (I didn't - and had to do it a second time!). but when instructions were followed it was successful in importing a number of mailbox folders and sub-folders containing over 28,000 emails.
Also I first tried advice from a different page and went from Microsoft Outlook to Mozilla Thurderbird on the PC and then tried to import from Thunderbird to Mail. Three consecutive attempts failed, so not recommended.
Hope this helps...
http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=3059
is good. but the instructions on the above web page are a little vague and you will save yourself some time if you carefully read the instructions that you download with the Eudora Mailbox Cleaner (I didn't - and had to do it a second time!). but when instructions were followed it was successful in importing a number of mailbox folders and sub-folders containing over 28,000 emails.
Also I first tried advice from a different page and went from Microsoft Outlook to Mozilla Thurderbird on the PC and then tried to import from Thunderbird to Mail. Three consecutive attempts failed, so not recommended.
Hope this helps...
May 29, 2008 | 8:10 am
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Just a quick update:
Neither site was entirely correct or maybe they are just outdated.
I transfer everything on the PC from outlook to eudora, then moved all inboxes to a usb drive. Plugged it in the mac and just simply hit the import function in mail, directed it to search through the usb and off it went.
The only glitch being that some fonts are warped and all dates are set to date of import. Other then that my friend is very happy with now being able to ditch the work PC.
/E
Neither site was entirely correct or maybe they are just outdated.
I transfer everything on the PC from outlook to eudora, then moved all inboxes to a usb drive. Plugged it in the mac and just simply hit the import function in mail, directed it to search through the usb and off it went.
The only glitch being that some fonts are warped and all dates are set to date of import. Other then that my friend is very happy with now being able to ditch the work PC.
/E
May 29, 2008 | 9:30 am
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not sure if you have already done this, but there IS another way. There is a nifty little program that will do the OE MB conversion to mbox files. I have done this with 2GB from an outlook OST file and from about 1.5GB of OE files.
one I have used is dbxconv and the other is O2M. O2m used to be free, but I think they charge 10$ for it now. dbxconv is still free. This will convert the dbx files from OE to mbox, and then you do an import into mail.app. Once there you can drag and drop and move things around.
one I have used is dbxconv and the other is O2M. O2m used to be free, but I think they charge 10$ for it now. dbxconv is still free. This will convert the dbx files from OE to mbox, and then you do an import into mail.app. Once there you can drag and drop and move things around.
May 30, 2008 | 11:19 am
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Doing it just with a mac?
My last notebook died in July 2005. I bought a mac and never looked back. Except regarding mail, I never got around to getting the mail off the old notebook onto the mac.
I'm currently 100% windows free. Two macs and that's it. Is there a way to get the email off the old hard drive? (I have it as an external disk)
I'm currently 100% windows free. Two macs and that's it. Is there a way to get the email off the old hard drive? (I have it as an external disk)