[reemas]

i switched to macs, so on my old pc ive got a bunch of important emails in outlook express. i copied over the .dbx and .log files from the mail folder in windows where they were stored to my mac.

now i want to import them into mail or entourage but i can't seem to get it to work.

can anyone kindly help me? thanks.

[Gerrit Vanoppen]

Originally posted by reemas:
i switched to macs, so on my old pc ive got a bunch of important emails in outlook express. i copied over the .dbx and .log files from the mail folder in windows where they were stored to my mac.
now i want to import them into mail or entourage but i can't seem to get it to work.
can anyone kindly help me? thanks.

ENTOURAGE
If you've installed Office, your mail files should be stored in : user/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office Identities/Main Identity/.

MAIL
> File Menu > Import mailboxes > Select format. You'll probably need to finish step 1 above before trying this one though.

[cpac]

Sorry - I can't help not really being that familiar with Outlook at all (and having nothing to test on).

All I can recommend is that you see whether Outlook can export all your mail into something that sounds pretty friendly (Mail uses a standard .mbox format) and then check to see whether any of the import options for Mail work on what you've exported....

[sarts]

reemas,

I had the same problem. I tried every format that Outlook Express would let me export my emails but none could be imported into OS X Mail program. You can try the Outlook2Mac utitlity at www.versiontracker.com but it's $10 I think.

If you have Entourage, it's a lot easier. All you have to is drag and drop your Outlook Express emails into a folder on your PC. These emails will be in eml format. Copy that folder to the Mac. Launch Entourage and drag and drop the emails into Entourage. It worked for me. Hope this helps.