Import mail from Outlook for Mac to Mail

http://marcushesse.com/2010/exporting-mail-from-outlook-2010-mac-importing-eml-f iles-into-apple-mail/

I too have had many more problems with Outlook that I would have hoped for and had decided to switch back to Mail. Unfortunately, the above apparently does not yet work with Lion. The website says they are working on it, and I am hoping for an alert from them when it is adapted.

Dave

This worked great! http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/ Costs $29.95 and worth every penny!

Weirdkid sent me an update today that allows the software to convert from Mail too.

I read an article (http://tidbits.com/article/11696) that recommended a product called Eagle Filer http://c-command.com/eaglefiler/ I tried it out on the free trial and it was awesome. Fast, easy, and worked just as advertised. Three-step process. Select all messages in an Outlook 2011 for Mac mailbox, hit FnF1, all messages are exported into a mailbox in Eagle Filer that is compatible with an mbox format. In Apple Mail, select import mailbox, select the mailbox in Eagle Filer, it imports it into an Import folder. Copy the messages and move them into the Mail folder you want, or just move the folder into your "On My Mac" folder. Very simple. The product is $40, but it does a whole lot more, so I'm probably going to buy it for the other useful purposes.

Dave

You can import mbox files to Apple Mail Application, just drag Inbox folder from Oulook Mac 2011 to your Desktop, then go to Menu File >Import Mailboxes, and select mbox file. you can do the same for oubox, trash or your custom folder in outlook

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Hi all. Don't know if any of you have already solved this issue, but after battling with this thing for weeks and finally finding a solution, I thought it would be a good idea to share it.

I had already tried with Thunderbird, importing evetrything and then trying to import that to Apple mail to no avail.

However, as someone already mentioned, the answer is EagleFiler. I know it's not free but the demo version is more than enough. All you have to do is create a library for each of the mail folders you want to export. Select in EagleFiler the folder (i.e. library) you want to import. Then go to that same folder in outlook, select all your e-mails and press F1 (alternatively just drag all the e-mails to the little EagleFiler window on the bottom right corner of the creen). Depending on the number of e-mails, it might take a while (in my Macbook core 2 duo it took about 3 hours to import some 10.000 e-mails tht were in just one folder).

EagleFiler actually saves in mbox format (even if it's not displayed that way) so, all you have to do is open apple mail, go to iport-mbox file and then just look for the main file in the library directory. Done.

Have to say that I thought for a moment that it couldn't be done!!

After Working very hard on this here comes to free & Easy solution

It Works on OS Lion

First Download Eagle Filer on your System from

http://c-command.com/eaglefiler/

(Don't Worry Free Trial is more than Enough)

Then;

Ta daaaaa

You Are done!

Bye Bye MicroSoft

Hi All. Since i updated to lion my outlook crashed totally as i have 13 GB in the mail. Couldnt handle it. So i have also since had the problem trying to import mail.

JChp53 Has the best approach. It actually is quite fast. importing the Mbox did not work for me though.

As follows worked perfect for me with all 13GB.

From OUTLOOK > Manually put all folders to the desktop > (GO TO) MAC MAIL > FILE > IMPORT MAILBOXES>MAC MAIL (NOT MBOX, says it can not find the folders)

As JChp53 says, it puts them into an imported folder in MAC MAIL. you can then drop them back into the folders you like.

This is the safest and purest workable way i have come across. All other methods did not work.

Size in outlook kills it!

Happy emailing from now on. 🙂

I looked at afew and this was easily the easiest! Imports Folders & Subfolders too!

http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/

Costs $29.95 and worth every penny!

dj dean wrote:

I looked at afew and this was easily the easiest! Imports Folders & Subfolders too!

http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/

Costs $29.95 and worth every penny!

100% agree with you.

I have Outlook on my PC. I backed up the file to the .pst format and transferred it to my new Mac. I then downloaded a free trial of MS Office and imported the .pst files into Outlook Mac Mail. I dragged each folder to the desktop. They were converted to .mbox files. I then opened Mac Mail and imported each folder from the desktop. Worked great!

karenfrommukwonago wrote:

I have Outlook on my PC. I backed up the file to the .pst format and transferred it to my new Mac. I then downloaded a free trial of MS Office and imported the .pst files into Outlook Mac Mail. I dragged each folder to the desktop. They were converted to .mbox files. I then opened Mac Mail and imported each folder from the desktop. Worked great!

Good method, well done.

This is by far the fastest and easiest way to transfer from Outlook for mac to mail!

Thanks.

I remeber haveing to do this years ago for my iMac G4. Doing it again for the new iMac. Works Great. Using Parralls on one computer the Migration Assistant is useless.

OMG.. i got a new mac for xmas and the whole migration was making me crazy.. i was looking everywhere to find a information to migrate my Outlook from pc to mac and once i did it and found out it wont synk with my iphone i was so mad so i started looking for a way to migrate (once again) to the famous "Mac Mail" and google doesnt help much.. most of the results were about paid software! Pfffff

so i went simple and started to experiment with outlook

AND.......I just got the solution to this problem..

*******this is only for the storaged emails

....and is so simple that you're going to laugh about it (hope you didnt bought any software to do it for you)
okay.. here we go

step 1 / open your Outlook Mac 2011

step 2 / on the desktop make a new folder and call it what ever you want.. (i called mine outlook backup)

step3 / back in outlook ... just press and hold on any folder you have (inbox or else) and drag it to the folder on the desktop you just created! (is that it????... well, we're almost done).. this will create a mbox file with the name of your folder in outlook like inbox.mbox

AMAZED YET?

( i have like 45 different folders inside outlook, so the drag and drop took quite a while for me to finish )

by the end i had a backup full of .mbox files

any folder inside outlook can be dragged into the desktop backup folder and will be transformed into MBOX

now the fun part...

step 4 / Open Mac Mail

step 5 / go to File / Import Mailboxes and select the "Files in mbox format" and click "Continue"

step 6 / select all the mbox files you just created from the desktop folder and Click "Choose"

Wait a little till its done....

AND VOILA!!!

You will find a new folder called Import will all your Old and loved folder from Outlook containing all your precious emails!

you can drag folder into place and restore the old order you had before, drag all the INBOX content into the actual mac mail Inbox and you're set, just set up your old email accounts back in mac mail and youre done!

ENJOY!!!!!!!

Very Important:

* all folders must drag and drop separtly from outlook, if you have folders containing other folders you must drag them one by one!

seems like theres a new update from microsoft that lets you synk all your contacts with the address book.. (not sure, but will keep looking)

*All messages will appear as Unread on macmail!.. so just apply the "read" to all of them

Well.. i hope this will help you!

Greets