How do I migrate emails from outlook express to Mac

I want to keep some emails from Outlook express on my old pc how do I migrate them to mail on my new macbook pro?

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    Dear Forum
    I would be grateful if anyone could cast some light on the following puzzle. I am trying to retrieve deleted emails from Microsoft Outlook Express 5 Macintosh edition (vers 5.02 2022) running on a G4. Using Data Recovery 2, I have uncovered two databases that hold the information, but I am unable to open them in Outlook or other programs. Is it something to do with 'End of file' as a friend suggested? I have tried importing them as my default database to no avail. When they were opened as raw text, there are definitely email addresses and parts of emails embedded in there, but nothing I can use. I desperately need to access these mails so that I can take an ex-client, who still owes me money, to court.
    Any assistance would be most appreciated.
    Thanking you for your help.
    Kind regards
    Chilliman2

    Hi, chilliman2 -
    There is one other option. You can use BBEdit Lite to open the message and database files. This utility will display all the text in most any file, including many damaged ones that otherwise can not be opened. BBEdit Lite is free -
    BBEdit Lite
    Although the SFGet window, opened via the Open command in the File menu, will not display the OE files as openable files, they can be opened by dropping them onto the icon for BBEdit Lite (just confirmed that to make sure).
    The bad news - you would need to search through the file to find the section for any specific email message, then copy that portion to another file for printing. This can take a lot of work if the file is large.
    The good news - even the usually non-visible header info for each message is included in the Messages file, and is shown in BBEdit Lite.
    Whether this result will be suitable for your purposes is a different issue.

  • Transfer emails from outlook express to Mac

    I had a windows xp PC and use outlook express, now I  have the Mac Pro and need to transfer my emails . How can I do it?

    Does this help?
    http://www.schwie.com/brad/?p=22

  • Transfering emails from outlook express to mac

    Hi All,
    First, I did search for this, but didnt find any info.
    I have hundreds of emails saved in outlook express on my windows XP machine that I would like to transfer to my new macbook pro. Is there a way to do this?

    you can just import it, file->import mailboxes
    IIRC that will pull it, never tried it on my own stuff though so im not sure how much and of what it pulls
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    You can add a button by using the [http://webdesigns.ms11.net/getmail.html Get Mail] add-on.

  • Moving emails from outlook express to mail

    is there a way to get all of my old emails from outlook express to mail? My old PC is about to die and then I'll loose all of my emails :s that is why I am wondering if there is a solution, now.

    I don't know whether you can do this on a PC version of Outlook Express or not, but I know that you can do stuff like this with Apple's Mail, so it may be worth a shot to try this and see if it works.
    First off, I am assuming that all this old mail is a POP account, and not IMAP. If it were IMAP, it would all be safe on your email account provider's IMAP server and all you would have to do is create the new account in Apple Mail and the first time you connected, it would autosync with the server and all your old mail would just be there. But if POP, all mail is downloaded to your computer then deleted from the server. So, assuming this to be a POP account, here is what I would try to do if I were you.
    1. Go to http://webmail.aol.com and sign up for a new free IMAP email account from AOL. You could get a free gmail account if you wanted, too, but I believe there is a bit of extra configuration involved in making it a IMAP and not POP. AOL is IMAP by default. Plus, AOL is a built-in new-account setup option in Apple Mail.
    2. On the PC in Outlook Express, add a new account for your new AOL email account. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883081 to find out all the particulars about account settings and how to do it in Outlook Express.
    3. On the Mac in Apple Mail, as stated in #1 above, AOL Mail is one of the options when creating a new account. Just follow Mail's "new account wizard" to create your AOL account there.
    4. On the Mac, create a second new account for your existing POP account. Mirror the individual mail folder layout that are on your old PC for the old POP account.
    5. This is the part that I don't know if PC Outlook Express will let you do, but I know that Apple Mail does:
    (a) Open each of your mail folders in the old POP account stored on your dying hard drive one at a time
    (b) Highlight/select all the messages in that folder
    (c) Drag them to the AOL inbox. In Apple Mail, they would be copied to the IMAP server, preserving all the original "From" and "Date Received" and other information like that.
    6. On the Mac, drag the messages that you uploaded into the AOL inbox and drop them into the appropriate folder of the "legacy" POP account that you created in #4. That will clear them out of the AOL inbox and they will now be stored on your computer as downloaded popmails.
    7. Go back to step #5 and repeat this process for each of your folders on the old PC until you have emptied all the messages off your old computer.
    Now, I will have to issue a disclaimer that I have only done this myself from IMAP to IMAP and to/from IMAP from/to "On My Mac" folders, which keeps copies of messages locally but not on IMAP servers. So I have no reason to suspect that this would not apply equally to POP since it worked with "On My Mac" folders. And whether the PC's Outlook Express will support the POP-to-IMAP drag-and-drop is a total unknown to me.
    I'm sure I'll hear back via this forum whether this worked or not, but it's the best idea that I can come up with, and like I said, a similar (but not identical) situation worked for me before.

  • Transfer emails from outlook 2011 for mac to Outlook 2010 for windows

    Hi,
    I want to transfer emails from outlook 2011 for mac to outlook 2010 for windows. 
    Outlook 2011 exports mails only in olm format and there is no option to import olm files in outlook 2010.
     I can drag and drop emails from outlook 2011 to a finder folder which saves emails as eml files. How can import eml files into outlook 2010. 
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    We can try the steps below to add the registry sub key. This will open all .eml files that are in the file system using Outlook, including *.eml attachments on messages in OE/WLM. Any replies will be sent
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    "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\OUTLOOK.EXE" /eml "%1"
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  • How to drag and drop an email from Outlook Express (with example code)

    Hi,
    It is possible to drag a mail from Outlook Express and drop it on the desktop, and the file created is a .eml, which is a text file.
    If I drop it into a Java application, no DataFlavor is provided to make the data transfer possible.
    As the data to transfer is a text, it should be possible to drop it.
    How to make a DataFlavor available and recover the text as a stream of characters?
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    import java.awt.dnd.DropTargetDropEvent;
    import java.awt.dnd.DropTargetEvent;
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    import javax.swing.JTree;
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        void run () {
            JLabel lab = new JLabel();
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                public void dragEnter(DropTargetDragEvent dtde) {
                    System.out.println("dragEnter DataFlavors="+dtde.getCurrentDataFlavors().length);
                    for (DataFlavor df: dtde.getCurrentDataFlavors())
                        System.out.println("DataFlavor MIME type="+df.getMimeType());
                public void dragExit(DropTargetEvent arg0) {
                public void dragOver(DropTargetDragEvent arg0) {
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                public void dropActionChanged(DropTargetDragEvent arg0) {
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        public static void main(String[] args) {
            new TestSDN().run();
    }Edited by: JavaGame on Jan 29, 2009 9:56 AM
    Edited by: JavaGame on Jan 29, 2009 9:57 AM

    It might just be Microsoft not using standards? I remember having a similar situation - I had an application that could have a zip entry fron 7-zip drag-and-dropped into it (came over as plain text, or maybe an InputStream, can't remember), but when you drill into a zip file with Windows (Vista at least), and try to drag-and-drop a zip entry from Windows Explorer, Java shows no dataflavors available. I just assumed Microsoft wasn't exporting the zip entry in any standard format (such as plain text).
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    I installed Lion but now I want to migrate my email in Outlook 11 (for mac) into mail.

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  • Can't import emails from outlook express into mail

    Just bought a macbook, I'm new into MAC, I'm a MAC ROOKIE. I'm trying to import my email from my microsoft outlook express to my MAC MAIL, I followed the instructions to import from outlook but when I locate the outlook files for my emails (they have extension .dbx but it won't let me select the files. Besides in the outlook folder there are dozens of files (1 per email subfolder). What am I doing wrong that I can't import the emails, nor the address book?
    Thxs!!!
    Avecesar

    Pay attention to the information Mail displays during the import process. It could be that it wants you to select the folder that contains the files to be imported, rather than the files themselves.
    EDITED: Now that I've read your post again, I don't think you're going to be able to do this on your MacBook, as importing from Outlook Express requires that application to be running in the "Classic" environment, which isn't available for Intel-based Macs.
    Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about how importing from Outlook Express is supposed to work, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

  • Importing Address Groups from Outlook Express 5 (Mac) to OS 10.3 Mail

    I've successfully imported all my emails and email folders from Outlook Express (Mac) to Mail. The contacts imported into my Address Book, but not collected into their groups. I need those address groups!
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  • Migrate email from old to new mac (outlook to entourage)

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  • Rescuing deleted emails from Outlook Express 5 for mac

    Dear Forum
    Wasn't quite sure where to post this, but I would be grateful if anyone could cast some light on the following puzzle. I am trying to retrieve deleted emails from Microsoft Outlook Express 5 Macintosh edition (vers 5.02 2022) running on a G4. Using Data Recovery 2, I have uncovered two databases that hold the information, but I am unable to open them in Outlook or other programs. Is it something to do with 'End of file' as a friend suggested? I have tried importing them as my default database to no avail. When they were opened as raw text, there are definitely email addresses and parts of emails embedded in there, but nothing I can use. I desperately need to access these mails so that I can take an ex-client, who still owes me money, to court.
    Any assistance would be most appreciated.
    Thanking you for your help.
    Kind regards
    Chilliman2

    Hi, chilliman2 -
    There is one other option. You can use BBEdit Lite to open the message and database files. This utility will display all the text in most any file, including many damaged ones that otherwise can not be opened. BBEdit Lite is free -
    BBEdit Lite
    Although the SFGet window, opened via the Open command in the File menu, will not display the OE files as openable files, they can be opened by dropping them onto the icon for BBEdit Lite (just confirmed that to make sure).
    The bad news - you would need to search through the file to find the section for any specific email message, then copy that portion to another file for printing. This can take a lot of work if the file is large.
    The good news - even the usually non-visible header info for each message is included in the Messages file, and is shown in BBEdit Lite.
    Whether this result will be suitable for your purposes is a different issue.

  • How to restore old emails from Outlook to Mac Mail?

    I have recently configured my email account (server type POP3) on Mail. It has retrieved my emails from last few weeks. However the older emails are missing. I was using Outlook and Mozilla thunderbird as email clients on Windows computer. I do have a backup of the data from windows computer on external hard drive. Can someone explain my how to I restore those old emails to the newly configued mac Mail account?

    I had about 7500 emails, and they converted OK...took awhile because each one has to be converted, but it finished fine. 
    Although you can export from multiple Outlook folders, Mac Mail doesn't have a very slick importer for multiple mailboxes.  So, you'll need to export the mailboxes from Outlook (which will create 25 different files, each full of email), and then import each of those into Mail. In my case, Mail created a separate folder for each exported file, but the folders all descended from the root folder (not nested), so I had to create my own nesting.  This is more a limitation of the mbox standard that Apple uses than it is a limitation of Mac Mail itself, from what I read. 
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  • Transfer emails from Outlook Express to Mail ?

    Hi, I've been using Outlook Express on a PC for years for my emailing and internet etc, now I'd like to transfer the lot to Mail on my G4 (which was used as my workstation). So far I've had no joy in transferring my email archives, is it do-able ?

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