How do i transfer myAOL mail and address book to Yahoo

I am now with AOL and i want to transfer all my AOL addresses to Yahoo . I am having a lot of trouble with getting my mail from my account with Aol and going back and forth from Mozilla to my address book and forwarding is taking forever . I would like to sever all ties with AOL and keep in touch thru Yahoo and Mozilla

Inigo,
Many thanks for this. This was very useful and a good starting point. I'm a very recently converted and proud new owner of one of the 20", 2GHz Intel Core Duo Imacs, and am in the process of converting all of my important files and data over from my home PC to my Mac.
So far all has gone well; sorting out my ITunes and Digital Photos was easy as pie, as was my documents, however my last hurdle to overcome is trying to transfer my emails from MS Outlook on my Home PC to my Mac Mail. I have tried your Thunderbird suggestion which seems to have me on the right track, but the outcome was that only 1 of the 130 emails in my Outlook Inbox were imported. I've also tried using installing Eudora on my Home PC and importing all my Outlook email to that, however each time I try that Eudora ends up crashing leaving me back at square one.
I will keep searching this discussion forum for other ideas, but in the meantime if you have any other helpful suggestion I'd be grateful!
Cheers,
Matt (aka: Mac&Me)
Apple Imac, 20", 2GHz, Intel Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.5) It rocks!

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Inigo,
Many thanks for this. This was very useful and a good starting point. I'm a very recently converted and proud new owner of one of the 20", 2GHz Intel Core Duo Imacs, and am in the process of converting all of my important files and data over from my home PC to my Mac.
So far all has gone well; sorting out my ITunes and Digital Photos was easy as pie, as was my documents, however my last hurdle to overcome is trying to transfer my emails from MS Outlook on my Home PC to my Mac Mail. I have tried your Thunderbird suggestion which seems to have me on the right track, but the outcome was that only 1 of the 130 emails in my Outlook Inbox were imported. I've also tried using installing Eudora on my Home PC and importing all my Outlook email to that, however each time I try that Eudora ends up crashing leaving me back at square one.
I will keep searching this discussion forum for other ideas, but in the meantime if you have any other helpful suggestion I'd be grateful!
Cheers,
Matt (aka: Mac&Me)
Apple Imac, 20", 2GHz, Intel Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.5) It rocks!

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My new mac is on Mavericks. I copied the entire address book over from Snow Leopard over to Mavericks
In mail on Mavericks, when I receive an email it no longer recognizes that the email is already in my address book.
When I highlight the email address in mail it gives me the option to "add to contacts" but i know for a fact that this person is already in my address book.
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I have the following problem. When I updated to Mavericks (from snow leopard), the folder name "Address Book" did not change into "Contacts".
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