[donny31]

What is the best way to get the emails and the folders from outlook express on a PC platform to MAIL in my new 17"?

[catalystC]

Do a search for outlook express and entourage.

I used outlook2mac to move outlook xp to entourage.

[donny31]

Originally posted by catalystC:
Do a search for outlook express and entourage.

the messages are on my pc--not on my laptop --what good would a search do?

[catalystC]

Do a search on this forum, for outlook express + entourage.

[AssassyN]

As for transferring your email onto the Mac, here's how you can do it:

a.) Set up a POP3 account on my mail server and sent myself several e-mails, some with attachments some without.

b.) Set up Outlook Express in Windows XP to use that POP3 account and downloaded the mail.

c.) Copied the "Outlook Express" folder at "CDocuments and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{string-of-numbers}\Microsoft" to my Mac.

d.) Used Emailchemy (program found here) to convert the mail to Apple Mail.app format (I used the Outlook Express Windows Wizard from the Wizards menu)

e.) Copied the resulting mailboxes to ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes and re-launched Mail.app. (This step could be replaced by simply setting the output directory to ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes instead of copying it there afterwards, I recommend doing this [close Mail.app first]).

[donny31]

Originally posted by AssassyN:
As for transferring your email onto the Mac, here's how you can do it:

a.) Set up a POP3 account on my mail server and sent myself several e-mails, some with attachments some without.

b.) Set up Outlook Express in Windows XP to use that POP3 account and downloaded the mail.

c.) Copied the "Outlook Express" folder at "CDocuments and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{string-of-numbers}\Microsoft" to my Mac.

d.) Used Emailchemy (program found here) to convert the mail to Apple Mail.app format (I used the Outlook Express Windows Wizard from the Wizards menu)

e.) Copied the resulting mailboxes to ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes and re-launched Mail.app. (This step could be replaced by simply setting the output directory to ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes instead of copying it there afterwards, I recommend doing this [close Mail.app first]).

Im trying to get my messages from my PC to my mac --was that your situation also --could you make the first few steps more depictive

thanks