Q: Import mail from Outlook for Mac to Mail

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

TxGolfer wrote:

 

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

Open Outlook and check the version # when it starts.

Then go to the web interface for your mail, if the URL ends /exchange you are on 2003, if /owa 2007 or 2010, tell us whch it is.

hi, I have the same problem, I can't export my emails from Outlook MAC to Mail MAC.

I read all the discussion, but I tried to drag my folders from my Outlook to the desktop (or a new folder in desktop), but without success, the folders come back to Outlook. Only lets me drag emails.

Please give your comments and help me with this problem

thank you

I have the feeling that this feature (outlook mailboxes to mbox files by draging unto the desktop) is a feature of OSX 10.7 or higher. It worked with 10.7.2 at the time.

my OSX is 10.7.3, why won't it work?

Is there any other way to export the emails??

jebf wrote:

 

my OSX is 10.7.3, why won't it work?

 

Is there any other way to export the emails??

Emailchemy will do it. It's $30 and these are the formats it can convert.

Well, the other thing is that I use Outlook 14.1.4 from Office 2011. Still works for me.

Roagui,

I am looking at my options for mail having also just got a mac.

to migrate my Outlook from pc to mac and once i did it and found out it wont synk with my iphone

Outlook for Mac didn't sync with the iPhone - is that right? I had assumed that if the email was IMAP that the client used to collect mail was irrelevant and that it would sync with any of my devices (PC, Mac & iPhone)

Would be great to get this cleared up!

ALSO

You guys seem to have had a few goes at this stuff!!

Can anyone think of a reason why the following wouldn't work??

• I'm planning on running MAIL AND OUTLOOK on my Mac initially to test out both to see what I prefer. As they will all be IMAP inboxes, and technically these are just clients, i'm assuming that this WILL work, but would be really interested to hear your views!
• If I run both, I will automatically have all my historic emails in Outlook for Mac as I will copy the .pst, and if I decide to use mail instead, I can use this simple conversion process, so hoping that covers all angles

Anyone's thoughts, tips or advice woiuld be greatly appreciated!

I had the same issue where they wouldn't drag over but after updating it worked… you can get the Office updates from here

I have tried some of these moves and had partial success. My issue is that dragging the folders from OL for Mac to a folder and then importing into Mac mail only gets me some of the mails in the original folder. Any ideas on how to rectify that?

I experienced the same thing with losing email when importing the .mbox files that I had dragged onto the desktop from Outlook 2011. I tried importing the .mbox file with Thunderbird and it imported all of the messages properly. This makes me believe that Apple Mail has some bugs in importing .mbox files.

It looks like the bug in the Apple Mail import process is to assume that Message-IDs of the emails in a particular .mbox file are unique, which in reality, cannot be guaranteed.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3423344?start=0&tstart=0

Someone in that other thread posted an AppleScript solution to modify the Message-ID field in the .mbox files to guarantee uniqueness but it looks like it has problems dealing with scale.

I did some digging around and it seems like to most elegant way to script this modification would be to use the Python mailbox library instead which supports reading and writing mbox files. When I get some free time, I'll try to whip up a Python script to do this.

http://onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2007/06/28/processing-mailbox-files-with-mailboxp y.html

http://docs.python.org/library/mailbox.html#mailbox.Mailbox

Thankls for the info. However, you are flying a little over my head with your explanation. Can you dumb it down for me? Did you move your mail from Outlook to thunderbird and then to Mac mail?

THIS worked for me! I just did it!!!

I have Oultook 2003 (on XP Pro) and Mail Ver 4.5 (on OS X 10.6.8).

http://www.trickyways.com/2010/08/how-to-transfer-emails-from-outlook-to-apple-m ail/

As explained on the page/article, and with great accompanying images, there are six steps to this - very easy and quick to do (but go to this page/article to get the details!)

1) download & install Thunderbird on the PC (where Outlook is installed)

2) using Thunderbird, import Outlook files

3) copy (I used a USB drive) the Thunderbird folder containing imported Outlook files

4) (connect USB drive to Mac)

5) in Mail, "import mailboxes" (choosing folder from step 3)

6) VOILA! (piece o' cake)

ENJOY!

Glenthecomputerguy