Import mails to Entourage

I know this is a very common problem and i have viewed a lot of discussion threads related to this topic but i havn't found any correct solution yet.
I am looking for a solution to transfer micrisoft outlook files to microsoft entourage. I have bundles of mails in different folders in outlook. I have gone through the IMAP thing but the folder hierarchy using this method cannot be preserved.
Looking forward for smart answers. Your help will be appreciated. Thanks for help.

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I know this is a very common problem and i have viewed a lot of discussion threads related to this topic but i havn't found any correct solution yet.
I am looking for a solution to transfer micrisoft outlook files to microsoft entourage. I have bundles of mails in different folders in outlook. I have gone through the IMAP thing but the folder hierarchy using this method cannot be preserved.
Looking forward for smart answers. Your help will be appreciated. Thanks for help.
Entourage can directly import Outlook pst files, go to File>Import and select Outlook
Under no circumstances purchase 3rd part converters, in this case they will be a ripoff.

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No messages when importing mail in Entourage X (10.1.0)

Hi,
I'm importing mail from Entourage 2003 to Entourage X. I select the identity and importing starts. Contacts and folders are imported correctly. But the folders are empty ?!
I do not get any error message but for some reason, he skips the mail messages.
I tried it over the wireless network. I connected the 2 mac through firewire... no difference.
Who can help me ?
Thanks,

Do you mean you are trying to import mail from the Entourage version included with Office 2004?
If so, trying to import the mbox format used by Tiger Mail to an earlier Mail.app version under Jaguar or Panther does not work directly without a workaround.
I'm not sure if the same applies to the database format used by Entourage 2004 vs the database format used by Entourage X but it might especially since most want to import the other direction - from X to 2004.
Since this is the Mail & Address Book - Tiger discussions for Apple's Tiger Mail and Address Book applications, you may have better luck getting an answer to your question here.
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/support.aspx

Importing mail from Entourage to Mail App - unable to connect error - help.

I am trying to move from Microsft Entourage to Apple's Mail. I tried using Mail's built-in import feature, but when I try to import from Entourage, I get the following error:
unable to connect to Microsoft Entourage. Try opening Microsoft Entourage then run the import.
I tried this, with no results.
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see if this helps: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11359449&#11359449.
JGG

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I just started using Entourage and want to import the messages saved in folders in Mac Mail to Entourage. When I select Import from a program in Entourage, Mac Mail isn't listed. Any thoughts on how to important these email messages into Entourage?
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I was able to resolve the matter from an extra found on the MS Office CD. Thank you.
http://www.kbalertz.com/kbNamed_273841/This.article.describes.create.MBOX.files. Microsoft.Entourage.back.message.Note.This.feature.only.applies.message.used.wit h.Address.Notes.aspx

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I am trying to import all my Entourage mailboxes into Mail.
[The background of this is that I want to upgrade to Lion, but my version of Office won't work in Lion and I don't want to pay for a new version, so I'm going to abandon Entourage and use Mail].
The process appears to work properly; there is no error message and Mail tells me that the mailboxes have been imported into a folder called Import.
However when I look at the Mail mailbozes, all teh messages are not there. The import has worked up to a point and then just stopped. By this I mean all the actual mailboxes (and sub mailboxes) are in place, tbut only the first 50% or so of the messages are there. (Admitedly, there are a large number of mesages in my mailboxes and the import has worked through them logically by alpahbetical order of mailboxes.)
I've also tried dragging the missing message across manually, but this doesn't work.
Any ideas?

Well there are some suggested solutions on here if you search for them. Hoever, I eventually worked around it by just importing a section of my old email at a time. A bit tedious, but it worked.

Problems converting from Mail to Entourage

I set up my Entourage account using the same information as my Mac mail account, including using smtp.mac.com for sending mail. I was able to import all of my messages from mail into Entourage, but when I tried to send messages from Entourage, I get the following error: "Mail could not be sent using the account 'Pam Legall.' Under Explanation it says that the specified server could not be found. What am I missing?
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9) using Entourage 10.1.0

I set up my Entourage account using the same information as my Mac mail account, including using smtp.mac.com for sending mail. I was able to import all of my messages from mail into Entourage, but when I tried to send messages from Entourage, I get the following error: "Mail could not be sent using the account 'Pam Legall.' Under Explanation it says that the specified server could not be found. What am I missing?
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Retrieve e-mail from Entourage

Hello there,
I just upgraded to OS X Lion on my MacBook Pro, and found out my Microsoft Office 2004 no longer is compatible with it. Does anyone know how I can retrieve e-mails from Entourage. I had some important e-mails saved in folders. Any help would be appreciated.
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Guillermo

Install Office 2008 or 2011 and it will import the mail.
Otherwise, I suggest you post your question on Microsoft's own forums for their Mac software as Apple Communities only provide support for Apple products and the MS forums are obviously geared more toward your question.
http://www.officeformac.com/productforums

Mac mail or entourage

I have been using entourage for quite some time now. Oddly enough I think it is the one program that microsoft makes better than apple. I just purchased a new macbook and i was thinking about making the switch to mac mail. any feelings one way or the other.

This is completely a personal preference.
You can use the Mail.app for some time and import all Entourage messages to the Mail.app and contact information to the Apple Address Book and if you don't like it, do the same in reverse choosing selected Mail.app mailboxes to import back to Entourage.
I used Entourage X for a long while when Office X was first introduced along with the Mail.app under Jaguar but I switched to using the Mail.app exclusively when Panther was introduced and I haven't looked back.
Personal preference but I consider Entourage a bloated application in the respect there are too many options that I don't need or use.
I upgraded to Office 2004 shortly after it was introduced and I use Entourage 2004 on occasion to access my .Mac account as an IMAP type account for experimenting/testing purposes only but I just prefer the simplicity and interface of the Mail.app. Entourage is just too busy for me and in addition, I don't like the idea of storing all application data - mail, calendar and address book data in a single large database file as Entourage uses.
If you are that sold on Entourage, you probably won't like the Mail.app but if you do decide to give the Mail.app a try, give it a fair test such as much longer than a couple of weeks and refrain from using Entourage during that time.

Another import Mail problem (Panther to Tiger)

OK, I have 15 email accounts in my Mail, that worked fine, albeit slowly, in Panther (10.3.9).
I just imported everything to a new macbook (10.4.8), and now some of the email accounts are not functioning properly. I get the misleading error message: The message from XXX <[email protected]> concerning “RE: YYY” has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it."
I have not taken the new macbook's mail account online.
I have read through dozens of posts here over the past few days, and am disappointed Apple hasn't fixed the import problem from over a year ago.
Anyway, I got both the "old" Panther Mail working, and new Macbook Tiger Mail not working, so willing to "experiement" if anyone wants me to. I have seen various theories on what works and what doesn't. Some of my mailboxes are large, so I suspect that's part of the problem. In addition they were previously imported from Jaguar, and probably from original OSX 10.1, so probably contain some of the vestigial files. I suspect I need to do the fixes/cleanup in 10.3.9, then re-import them...
I also don't rebuild mailboxes because once I did it I lost all my mail (or appeared to), but I was able to recover from backup. I suspect the mbox file was probably still there, so mail was recoverable, but that experience was not one that instilled confidence in me. I'm willing do rebuild this time...
Some info on the 15 accounts I tried to transfer:
1. dan@dc OK, 5271 messages, 152 MB
2. info@pics OK, 54 messages, 315 kB
3. trav IMAP, empty, (probably due to not going online after xfer)
4. web@al OK 3 messages, 2.9 kB
5. web@kais OK, 147 messages, 802 kB
6. class * BAD * 238 messages, 854 kB (160 msg xferred)
7. web@khs OK, 1248 messages, 27.8 MB
8. dan@aa * BAD * 10419 messages, 607 MB (638 msg xferred,)
9. cabin OK, 10245 messages, 39.6 MB
10. news OK, 2712 messages, 4.2 MB
11. web@aa OK, 97 messages, 1011 kB
12. dan1 OK, 2945 messages, 11.7 MB
13. info@dc * BAD * 2023 messages, 50.6 MB (22 msg xferred)
14. dc@dc OK, 895 messages, 14.4 MB
15. info@aa OK, 2484 messages, 39.7 MB
The accounts I use most often are 1, 8, 13, 14, 15.
Frankly, I'm surprised account 6 went bad, due to small size, and last saved received email over a year old. No recent mail received.
All SENT Mailboxes appear to be fine.
I have several archive mailboxes, and they all seem fine, too.
I will do (in Tiger) the standard POP procedure posted multiple times by David Gimeno, unless someone thinks I should be doing the cleanup in Panther first...then re-import, or wants me to be a Guinea Pig and run some "tests"
Another minor thing: Mail in Panther shows how large the file is and the number of messages (below toolbar), while Tiger only shows number of messages (and unread). Any easy way to enable showing how large the mailbox is? I think it should be displayed, especially if Mail chokes on large files.
Also, is there a better, easier to use, less clunky Mail alternative that can handle multiple accounts? Entourage? Eudora? T-bird?
Aloha,
Dan

The real issue here is that the conversion from Mail 1.x to Mail 2.x is broken and it may fail miserably even for mailboxes that Mail 1.x could handle without a hitch. Hence, trying to “fix” any problems you might have in Mail 1.x by upgrading to Mac OS X 10.4 is guaranteed to fail and can only make things worse.
At this point, whether you go back to Mac OS X 10.3 and tidy up your mailboxes there (if that’s still an option), or want to try to fix the problem in place using the procedure I’ll post below again for reference, is up to you. Do what you find easier or more convenient. Whatever you do, be sure you keep a backup of the original ~/Library/Mail folder, so that you can try something else if things don’t work as expected.
And yes, in their infinite wisdom, the powers that be at Apple also decided to remove the status bar from Mail 2.x, and there is currently no way to know the size of a locally stored mailbox in Mail 2.x other than by switching to the Finder and checking the size of the Messages folder within the corresponding *.mbox folder in ~/Library/Mail/.
Before proceeding any further, however, you should verify/repair the disk (not just permissions), as described in the following article, in case there is something amiss in the filesystem that also has a bearing on the problems you’ve experienced:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
For a POP account, the following procedure should allow you to fix the Inbox problem. A similar procedure should allow you to fix other mailboxes that might also be affected:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. Make a backup copy of the ~/Library/Mail folder, just in case something goes wrong while trying to fix the problem. You can do this in the Finder by dragging the folder to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down, for example. This is where all your mail is stored.
3. Create a new folder on the Desktop and name it however you wish (e.g. Inbox Old). It doesn’t need to have an .mbox extension.
4. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/POP-username@mailserver/INBOX.mbox/.
5. Move the files mbox and Incoming_Mail out of INBOX.mbox, into the Inbox Old folder just created on the Desktop. These files contain all the messages that were in the mailbox before the upgrade to Tiger, and maybe even some messages that had been deleted. mbox is the most important. Incoming_Mail may or may not be present.
6. Move any strangely-named Messages-T0x... folders to the Desktop (not into the Inbox Old folder). These folders are to be deleted after fixing the problem. They are temporary folders created during an import or an indexing process, and Mail should have deleted them when done. Their presence is a clear indication that something didn’t work as expected. If you’ve been using Mail after the conversion and have already tried to fix the problem by rebuilding the mailbox or something like that, they might contain messages that are neither in Messages proper nor in the mbox file, so keep them around until the problem is fixed.
7. Move everything else within INBOX.mbox, except the Messages folder, to the Trash.
The result of the above should be that INBOX.mbox contains the proper Messages folder only, and the Inbox Old folder on the Desktop contains the mbox and Incoming_Mail (if it exists) files only. Now, proceed as follows:
8. Open Mail.
9. The account’s Inbox should properly display in Mail as many messages as *.emlx files are in ~/Library/Mail/POP-username@mailserver/INBOX.mbox/Messages/. If that’s not the case, select the mailbox in Mail and do Mailbox > Rebuild.
10. In Mail, do File > Import Mailboxes, choose Other as the data format, and follow the instructions to import the Inbox Old folder that’s on the Desktop.
As a result of doing the above, some messages may be duplicated now. Andreas Amann’s Mail Scripts has a Remove Duplicates script that you may find useful.
Do with the imported mail whatever you wish. You may move the messages anywhere you want and get rid of the imported mailboxes afterwards.
If all is well and you don’t miss anything, the files on the Desktop can be deleted, although you may want to keep them for a while, just in case.
Take a look at the following article to learn what you might have done before upgrading to minimize the risk of this happening, and what you may do after fixing the problem to avoid similar issues from happening in the future. DON’T do now what the article suggests, though, as that would make things worse in the current situation:
Overstuffed mailbox is unexpectedly empty
Ask for any clarifications or if you need further assistance.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder, i.e. /Users/username/Library.

Switching from Entourage to Mail: use Entourage Groups?

I'm attempting to switch from Entourage to Mail and Address Book (not least because of the attractions of smart folders, etc), but I can't figure out how or if I will be able to send occasional email mailshots to large groups of people.
I run an occasional newsletter in email format. Because the list is very large, it wouldn't make sense to set up individual vCards for each individual email address on the list, and yet that seems to be the only way to email all the members of a group using Mail and Address Book.
With Entourage, on the other hand (and I would dearly love to wave goodbye to it in all other respects) I could set up a Group exactly as I would set up an individual contact, then copy the entire list to it, and could even add occasional new email addresses whenever I liked or delete others as they opted to leave the group.
Am I missing something in Mail / Address Book, or will I have to cut and paste into the To: box my entire long list each time I need to send a mailshot? (And doing that would involve using a word processor or text editor in order to manage the list, which is adding yet another programme to what should be a pretty simple task...)
Many thanks for any advice anyone can offer.
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Yes. Importing your mail from Entourage does not affect the Entourage database.
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Problems importing mail from other apps

I cannot get an Intel Mac until I have successfully transferred all my email to OSX from other apps that only run in Classic. I managed the Outlook Express mail perfectly by importing it into Entourage. Unfortunately I cannot get the same result for the (older) Netscape mail.
This is the situation : Netscape Communicator is on an external HD with the emails (in System Folder:Preferences:Netscape Users). I use Classic to see all the messages and folders, but cannot import them into either Entourage or Thunderbird. What happens is ...
Entourage : fails at final step - "necessary file Netscape Communicator cannot be found"
Thunderbird : fails to insert the Netscape Users profiles folder and offers no dialogue to navigate to it
This one little detail (several hundred mail messages extending back to 1999) is preventing me from abandoning my G5 that runs Classic. Once I upgrade to Intel this will be lost forever unless I can get it into OS X somehow. Any ideas?

Sadly, no
Eudora (I tried 5.2) will only import from Claris emailer or Outlook - it offered to "Search disk" for other apps, but didn't let me define WHICH disk so I could point it at my external HD where the System Folder and Netscape currently live.
The good news is, I finally managed to get it into Entourage! Previously I had tried to import 'everything' from Netscape, but when I narrowed the list down to just Messages (which is all I really wanted anyway) suddenly it worked. So now I have everything in Entourage, and except for the occasional lamented game, I have no need to run Classic ever again.

Exporting OE mail to Entourage 2004

My client has purchased a new Imac with OS 10.4 installed. I have also installed MS Office 2004 and set up Entourage for her ISP email. Her previous laptop was running MAC OS 9.2 and she was using Outlook Express for emails.
I have deleted the account in OE so my client can still reference old emails but not download any new ones onto the system.
I have managed to export her address book from OE to Entourage successfully.
How do I export all mail (deleted, inbox and sent items) from outlook express and then import them to Entourage on the new system?

Hey Fred, If you open Entourage and from the file menu choose import. Select Import information from a program. Click the next arrow---Select Outlook Express 5 (thats the only one offered, I hope it does the trick). Click the next arrow and select Messages and anyothers you might need. Then you may need to direct it to the OE database.
Good Luck, Glynn

Importing messages from Entourage

On three machines all running 10.4.11 I try to import messages from Entourage, and the process always is as follows. The bar begins to progress, with the Folder name up top, followed by the quickly changing names of each subject line. It seems to be importing each message.
All three instances the imports finish, with all the folders/sub-folders imported but no messages.
I am going to upgrade the machines to 10.5 tomorrow. See if that works.

I need help also - to anyone out there - after importing the data from Entourage, in addition to missing messages, my mail.app is now running so slow (both downloading messages and opening messages).
The mail.app "Help" is also not opening up.
I wanted to re-load the software also to see if it will correct everything but do not know where to get the application from - is this the best thing to do or what alternatives are there?
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Alex,
This thread is getting unbelievably messy for what originally was such a simple question. Nowhere did I say that the procedure I suggested was meant for a particular type of account or mailbox. It allows any messages to be exported in standard mbox format. It’s Stanley who mentioned IMAP as an alternative procedure to transfer mail between mail clients, and what I said in the post you’re replying to is precisely that IMAP has nothing to do with what I was talking about...
What does “suitable for archiving” mean? If you have any questions that have nothing to do with the problem of transferring mail from Mail to Entourage, which is what we’re supposed to be talking about here, please either find a thread that discusses the same questions or start a new topic to properly discuss them in their own thread instead of hijacking someone else’s thread. Here is a recent example of such a thread:
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