ReneeL

Q: Export Apple mail to Outlook 2011 for Mac

Hi everyone,

 

I don't like the serie Mail/iCal/Carnet d'adresses from Apple, reason why I bought Outlook 2011 for Mac.

I succeed transferring all my contacts to Outlook.

I try now to transfer all my mails with their categories to Outlook too but I don't succeed.  I read some discussions on this forum but they are obsolete as they were with snowLeopard and Outlook 2011.  Would someone have good news for me and find a way to transfer all the mails with their categories from Apple Mail to Outlook 2011 for Mac ?

 

It would be nice and to receive a positive answer.

 

Thank you for your help

Renée

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Apr 10, 2012 7:51 AM

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  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Jan 24, 2014 6:39 AM in response to tenpinpete
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    Jan 24, 2014 6:39 AM in response to tenpinpete

    The error occurred way back when, and choosing Outlook was the cause.

     

    Now you that you have a chance to get away from Microsoft's pernicious habit of encapsulating simple items into complex pst structures take it, and don't go back.

  • by apldfrtghy,

    apldfrtghy apldfrtghy Feb 8, 2014 5:42 AM in response to pummkin
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    Feb 8, 2014 5:42 AM in response to pummkin

    You're the man pummkin!

    you allow me to finally go away from unusable mac mail without much problems (apart wasting time reading unuseful reply everywhere)

     

    Thank you very much,

    jeanluc

     

    p.s. Outlook:mac does NOT have .pst files

  • by pummkin,

    pummkin pummkin Feb 9, 2014 9:29 PM in response to apldfrtghy
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    Feb 9, 2014 9:29 PM in response to apldfrtghy

    You mean I'm the woman? LOL! You are most welcome! We've been talking about MBOX, not PST which is Windows-based that can be imported in older versions of Entourage or in Thunderbird. Apart from the stability, I dislike any upgrades that render any app useless. I'm running fine on Snow Leopard & would not upgrade unless I upgrade my hardware.

     

    Happy getting acquainted with Outlook for Mac everyone! I'm still celebrating Chinese New Year!

  • by Ckam001,

    Ckam001 Ckam001 Mar 14, 2014 1:01 PM in response to Sean548
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    Mar 14, 2014 1:01 PM in response to Sean548

    Thanks.  This works great.  In TextWrangler look for the small drop-down menu at the bottom of the window.  Unix LF will be selected.  Change it to Classic Mac (CR) and save.  This file will now be visible to the Outlook 2011 mbox import process.

  • by jasonpit,

    jasonpit jasonpit Apr 24, 2014 3:18 PM in response to Sean548
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    Apr 24, 2014 3:18 PM in response to Sean548

    @Sean548

     

    Excellent ! changing the file's to classic mac is working like a charm - thank you very much!

  • by imraankhan,

    imraankhan imraankhan May 3, 2014 7:30 AM in response to ReneeL
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    May 3, 2014 7:30 AM in response to ReneeL

    read this article and convert your apple mail to outlook pst file format http://www.thunderbirdtopstexporter.olm1.net/

  • by mwisan,

    mwisan mwisan Sep 9, 2014 12:54 PM in response to ReneeL
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    Sep 9, 2014 12:54 PM in response to ReneeL

    Hey guys,

      I had the same problem and read through the posts, and tried the fixes. A couple were ok. But I have about 10,000 emails in 600 folders/subfolders and needed something that would be fast (i.e. not manually adding emails to a converter, or using a text editor to change the name of every .mbox file).

     

    I looked around, and found Mail Exporter Pro (at the time of writing it is: $39.00) but it works well, and converts all your archive in one easy step, and even imports it into Outlook 2011.

     

    For me the saved time and ease of use is worth the cost.

     

    Good luck.

  • by smithazus,

    smithazus smithazus Jan 23, 2015 2:45 AM in response to vboyd666
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    Jan 23, 2015 2:45 AM in response to vboyd666

    We can try manual method for transferring emails, contacts and calendar of Apple Mail into Outlook 2011 Mac. Apart from Mailbox items, you even transfer Rules, signatures and account profile to Outlook 2011 Mac.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Jan 23, 2015 2:47 AM in response to smithazus
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    Jan 23, 2015 2:47 AM in response to smithazus

    smithazus wrote:

     

    We can try manual method for transferring emails, contacts and calendar of Apple Mail into Outlook 2011 Mac. Apart from Mailbox items, you even transfer Rules, signatures and account profile to Outlook 2011 Mac.

    Are you going to explain how, or are you just teasing.

  • by smithazus,

    smithazus smithazus Jan 29, 2015 2:07 AM in response to Csound1
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    Jan 29, 2015 2:07 AM in response to Csound1

    Hi imraankhan,

     

    This kind of conversion is possible through manual method as well as automated method.  To accomplish conversion process manually, follow the steps mentioned below:

    1. Create required folders on Mac in Finder.    
    2. Drag and drop each items which are targeted to export from Apple Mail to above created folders
    3. Now, you can create the folders in Outlook Mac 2011 where user want to allocate existing emails
    4. Use Drag and drop features to transfer the emails from the folders ( Apple Mail) to Outlook 2011 Mac ( Newly created folders)

    Note: User can select multiple email files at the same time. This process is applicable for .EMLX file in Apple Mail.

     

    For nontechnical user, automated conversion process is available through trusted vendors. To know how it works, read at:

    http://c-command.com/forums/showthread.php/4322-Converting-Apple-Mail-to-Outlook -2011

  • by lewisd606,

    lewisd606 lewisd606 Oct 20, 2015 3:17 AM in response to smithazus
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    Oct 20, 2015 3:17 AM in response to smithazus

    Hi,

     

    I read the reference and found relevant  for Yosemite users like me. Now, i am enjoying Outlook 2011 at Mac OSX.

  • by NotNed,

    NotNed NotNed Dec 23, 2015 5:03 AM in response to vboyd666
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    Dec 23, 2015 5:03 AM in response to vboyd666

    I used Sean's advice and it worked for me in about 2 minutes. The instructions to convert the end of line character in TextWrangler are below.

     

    The first thing I did was open the mbox file in TextWrangler (after making a backup).

     

    TextWrangler has a status bar at the bottom of its window and it shows what the current line end character is (it also shows file encoding, i.e. Unicode (UTF-8), the Line and column the cursor is currently placed on, etc.).

     

    The three options shown that you can chose from, on TW v5.0.2, are: Unix (LF); Classic Mac (CR); Windows (CRLF).


    I changed from the original setting for the file of Unix (LF), to the Windows version (CRLF). Please note Sean indicated the Classic Mac (CR) which works too, but I used the Windows setting and it worked fine on that setting as well.

     

    I then saved the file.

     

    Next, I followed the instructions for importing an mbox file - Open Outlook; Choose File menu, Import; Select "Contacts or messages from a text file" and click next (right arrow button on my version of Outlook); Select "Import messages from an MBOX-format text file" and click next; Choose your newly saved mbox file then the messages import.

     

    The new folder will be shown and you can rename it to the folder name you want or you can simply move the messages to wherever you need them to be.

     

    I didn't have many emails so was not affected by any file size issues that have been mentioned in this thread, but the method above overcomes the issue of the mbox files being blanked out when trying to import an mbox text file in Outlook. After following the above, you can choose the mbox file and import as normal and all images, signatures, attachments, etc., will be present and correct (well they were for me anyway).

  • by NotNed,

    NotNed NotNed Dec 23, 2015 5:18 AM in response to NotNed
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    Dec 23, 2015 5:18 AM in response to NotNed

    I used Sean's advice and it worked for me in about 2 minutes. The instructions to convert the end of line character in TextWrangler are below.

     

    The first thing I did was open the mbox file in TextWrangler (after making a backup).

     

    TextWrangler has a status bar at the bottom of its window and it shows what the current line end character is (it also shows file encoding, i.e. Unicode (UTF-8), the Line and column the cursor is currently placed on, etc.).

     

    The three options shown that you can chose from, on TW v5.0.2, are: Unix (LF); Classic Mac (CR); Windows (CRLF).


    I changed from the original setting for the file of Unix (LF), to the Windows version (CRLF). Please note Sean indicated the Classic Mac (CR) which works too, but I used the Windows setting and it worked fine on that setting as well.

     

    I then saved the file.

     

    Next, I followed the instructions for importing an mbox file - Open Outlook; Choose File menu, Import; Select "Contacts or messages from a text file" and click next (right arrow button on my version of Outlook); Select "Import messages from an MBOX-format text file" and click next; Choose your newly saved mbox file then the messages import.

     

    The new folder will be shown and you can rename it to the folder name you want or you can simply move the messages to wherever you need them to be.

     

    I didn't have many emails so was not affected by any file size issues that have been mentioned in this thread, but the method above overcomes the issue of the mbox files being blanked out when trying to import an mbox text file in Outlook. After following the above, you can choose the mbox file and import as normal and all images, signatures, attachments, etc., will be present and correct (well they were for me anyway).

     

    So in case you missed the instructions from Sean earlier in the thread, the summary is:

     

    1. Export mailbox from Mac mail.

    The resulting mbox text file will not import into Outlook "as is" because the end of line character is a Line Feed (LF) and Outlook cannot use an mbox file with that end of line character.

     

    2. To solve this, simply open the mbox file in TextWrangler, change the end of line character from LF to CR or CRLF following instructions above and save the file.

     

    3. Then import the mbox file into Outlook using the normal import instruction above.

     

    If you have TextWrangler, it takes about a minute to change the end of line characters and however long the export and import routines take depending on how big your mailbox was, which you would have had to spend anyway. It will also accommodate all your folders etc., because you are not changing anything from the default export and import routines, you will will get all the standard functionality. The only problem with the standard process is the LF character by itself doesn't work when Outlook tries to import an mbox file. Change that and you are in business having taken about a minute extra to change the end of line character in the file.

    If you don't already have TextWrangler, you'll have to download it for free from the Mac App Store which might take another 5 minutes, but you get a great text editor too!

     

    Free, fast, easy - thanks Sean, you saved me a load of grief.

  • by J1313J1313,

    J1313J1313 J1313J1313 Apr 5, 2016 1:29 PM in response to NotNed
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    Apr 5, 2016 1:29 PM in response to NotNed

    Hi there

     

    Is it possible to import FOLDERS? I use Mac Mail currently and have quite a number of folders set up

     

    I don't need to import my mailbox (as in all the mails currently in Mac Mail) as this happens once I add my account in Outlook

     

    But it just brings the emails in, doesn't also mirror the folders setup that I was using in Mac Mail

     

    Is it possible to mirror what was in Mail in Outlook?

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