{"id":119,"date":"2004-10-18T13:31:15","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T21:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2004-10-18T13:33:38","modified_gmt":"2004-10-18T21:33:38","slug":"migrating-from-windows-outlook-to-mailapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Migrating from Windows Outlook to OSX Mail.app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve encouraged a friend of mine to move to Mac.  He bought a Powerbook 15in, iBook 14in, two iPods, Airport, Airport Express&#8230;. the works really.  He&#8217;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.  <\/p>\n<p>After a bit of rudimentary research I learned the following process:<\/p>\n<li>Install Eudora<\/li>\n<li>Import from Outlook using Eudora<\/li>\n<li>Move the Eudora mbox files to the Mac<\/li>\n<li>Import using Mail.app (which can &#8220;habla&#8221; mbox)<\/li>\n<p>Well, that didn&#8217;t work (but did consume many hours with import\/export fun).  It &#8220;almost&#8221; worked, but the html email looked like crap, and attachments were mangled.<\/p>\n<p>So, I googled some more and constructed a Byzantine process involving Windows Outlook and Outlook Express, <a href=\"http:\/\/people.freenet.de\/ukrebs\/dbxconv.html\">dbxConv<\/a> and Mail.app.  All I can say is, &#8220;it worked for me&#8221;:<\/p>\n<li>On your Windows machine import your email to Outlook Express<\/li>\n<li>Find the .dbx files that Outlook Express creates (I can&#8217;t remember where it put these)<\/li>\n<li>Drop this program <a href=\"http:\/\/people.freenet.de\/ukrebs\/dbxconv.html\">dbxConv<\/a> into the same folder as your .dbx files and run it using *.dbx as the second parameter.<\/li>\n<li>Connect to your Windows machine using the Mac (cmd+k from the Finder) and drop your .mbx files somewhere temporary<\/li>\n<li>Import the .mbx files into Mail.app using the &#8220;Import Mailboxes&#8221; command<\/li>\n<li>Curse because the process is so complicated, then drink something to celebrate<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve encouraged a friend of mine to move to Mac. He bought a Powerbook 15in, iBook 14in, two iPods, Airport, Airport Express&#8230;. the works really. He&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}