How can I get my email from Outlook on the PC to Mac's Mail on Lion?

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How can I get my email from Outlook on the PC to Mac's Mail on Lion?

I am trying to move years worth of emails from Outlook on a PC to a new MacBook Air. The database of emails is about 5GBs. I can find different settings to export the emails in PC formats, but not a single one listed in the Lion version of Mail. It can import from Mac Mail, Thunderbird and Entourage, but not Outlook. Is there a way to export the files and import them on to the Mac that anyone has had success with?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2), Moving from Windows to Mac

Posted on Jan 13, 2012 1:38 PM

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Tony T1

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Jan 13, 2012 2:54 PM in response to jeepaholic76

See: Outlook 2011 to Mail in Lion

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Jan 15, 2012 6:46 AM in response to Tony T1

Does this work on the PC Outlook 2010 to Mac Mail? I do not have Outlook on the Mac, I have Mac Office 2011 Home edition that does not have Outlook.

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Jan 15, 2012 7:25 AM in response to jeepaholic76

Follow the link in the post

Also, another way is to transfer via IMAP:

Moving Email from PC Outlook to Apple Mail

"An easy (and free) way to transfer email from Outlook (Windows) to Mail (Mac) is to use an IMAP account (e.g. Gmail) as an intermediary between the two. It's simple and reliable but can be a bit slow for large amounts of email. Expect over an hour per Gigabyte."

For other alternatives, Google is your friend 🙂

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