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MacRoxPA

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Finally moved to Mac, and I'm trying to move about the past 5 years' worth of e-mail from Outlook to Mail.app.

I tried the Netscape workaround, but Netscape Composer refuses to import my messages. So far, I've had the best luck with importing my mail from Outlook to Thunderbird in Windows, then transferring Thunderbird's mail folders to the Mac.

However, Mail.app won't let me import the Thunderbird files, even after rennaming the extension-less file with the .mbox extension. The file is greyed out in the import window.

Any ideas? Any and all help would be awesome.

Thanks!
 
MacRoxPA said:
Finally moved to Mac, and I'm trying to move about the past 5 years' worth of e-mail from Outlook to Mail.app.

I tried the Netscape workaround, but Netscape Composer refuses to import my messages. So far, I've had the best luck with importing my mail from Outlook to Thunderbird in Windows, then transferring Thunderbird's mail folders to the Mac.

However, Mail.app won't let me import the Thunderbird files, even after rennaming the extension-less file with the .mbox extension. The file is greyed out in the import window.

Any ideas? Any and all help would be awesome.

Thanks!

Google is your friend ;) First link on the page yields this. Hope that works for you!
 
same problem here

hey guys, I have the same problem here. I have bought a macbook today and i don't know how to transfer my files from my old Outlook Express 6 to my new mac. I have seen the link indicated above but it doesn't work for me because the files from my outlook are .dbx
Any kind of help will be appreciated!!!
 
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