I’ve encouraged a friend of mine to move to Mac. He bought a Powerbook 15in, iBook 14in, two iPods, Airport, Airport Express…. the works really. He’d been running Outlook as his email client on Windows against a pop3 server, and had all of his email stored on his local machine.
After a bit of rudimentary research I learned the following process:
Install Eudora
Import from Outlook using Eudora
Move the Eudora mbox files to the Mac
Import using Mail.app (which can “habla” mbox)
Well, that didn’t work (but did consume many hours with import/export fun). It “almost” worked, but the html email looked like crap, and attachments were mangled.
So, I googled some more and constructed a Byzantine process involving Windows Outlook and Outlook Express, dbxConv and Mail.app. All I can say is, “it worked for me”:
On your Windows machine import your email to Outlook Express
Find the .dbx files that Outlook Express creates (I can’t remember where it put these)
Drop this program dbxConv into the same folder as your .dbx files and run it using *.dbx as the second parameter.
Connect to your Windows machine using the Mac (cmd+k from the Finder) and drop your .mbx files somewhere temporary
Import the .mbx files into Mail.app using the “Import Mailboxes” command
Curse because the process is so complicated, then drink something to celebrate
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