Import mail from Outlook for Mac to Mail

This was indeed the right answer! Thank you for the easy solution! 🙂 I had been googling for this and kept getting results about paid software.

Roagui wrote:

AMAZED YET?

Not significantly, but thanks for posting this again.

Ah, Microsoft... My Outlook database has corrupted 7 times in the last 2 months, the time before last it was unrepairable! Years of emails gone forever! So I've moved (permanently!) back to Mail, it works fine, and it's also used by the App that I use for producing HTML emails (Mail Designer). I just dragged each folder out of Outlook onto the desktop, then imported into Mail in mbox format (as mention earlier in the forum).

The main reason I'm posting this is that I know at least 6 other Outlook users who've lost considerable amounts of data because of the unreliable nature of Outlook - I'd advise a sharpish sidestep back to Apple Mail...

Be warned!

While I prefer to use Mail, I was thinking about going back to Outlook.....

I cannot seem to get iCal working with the exchange. I can accept an invitation (in Mail) and it will show up in my iPhone and my iPad but it will not show up on my MBPro?? I have called in twice to apple to no avail.

I read numberous articles about Lion and iCal issues but all say that 10.7.2 fixed it. Mine is not fixed!! Although I prefer Mail, if I can't get my calendars to sync, I will not be able to use it.

Excellent! This method worked like a charm even with very large mailboxes - but it takes some time to complete.

TxGolfer wrote:

While I prefer to use Mail, I was thinking about going back to Outlook.....

I cannot seem to get iCal working with the exchange. I can accept an invitation (in Mail) and it will show up in my iPhone and my iPad but it will not show up on my MBPro?? I have called in twice to apple to no avail.

I read numberous articles about Lion and iCal issues but all say that 10.7.2 fixed it. Mine is not fixed!! Although I prefer Mail, if I can't get my calendars to sync, I will not be able to use it.

What version of Exchange?

2011 for Mac

TxGolfer wrote:

2011 for Mac

That is the version of Outlook you are running, what version of exchange are you connecting to?

In regards to the migration of mailboxes from Outlook 2011 to Mail 5.1 (both programs being up to date Jan 2012) by dragging the mailboxes in Outlook to the desktop (which converts them into mbox files) then importing these mbox files into Mail using the "import mailbox" menu item under the File menu.

Our institutional server uses Exchange 2010. So far, my transition from Outlook to Mail has been without any problems - nothing lost, dates in old e-mails has remained as they were on Outlook. Old attachments were also conserved (as long as they remained on my computer, of course). The only small problem is that exported e-mail are all marked as "unread". A couple of mailboxes had more than 7000 e-mails: those took a few minutes to convert into mbox files even in a 2011 MacBook Pro. I batch converted most of the smaller mailboxes by selecting them as a group. Mail did close once while importing the largest mbox file but completed it on a second try - not sure what happened; I may have switched programs while the operation was taking place and also having too many programs running at the same time I was doing the import. I'll update later if problems crop up.

I have no idea. I am located in Tx, they are in San Jose.

Claude51,

Its not Outlook to Mail that is the issue but Mail to Outlook.

Thank you for your describtion of a working process, I just went to try it, unfortunetely my Outlook 2011 do not let me drag any folders to the desktop or a folder on the desktop... Am I doing something wrong?

I don't know... Only thing I can think of is that I am running OSX 10.7.2 and the latest version of Outlook.

Hey JChp53,

It worked out perfectly!!!

So easy. Less than 1 minute for each folder.

Thanks a lot!

Dragging the folders to the desktop (or elsewhere) and then importing into Apple mail may be a little slower, but it is safe and accomplishes the task without having to download and use additional software... Thanks