Moving from outlook on vista to mail on my new mac pro

Question

I need to transfer my mailboxes from outlook to mail. I have everything else synced over mobile me.
Thank You
A.J.

Answer 1

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
When I transfered to the Mac, I found the following guide online, and am posting an excerpt of it below.
1) Install Thunderbird on the same Windows PC (or virtual PC) that has Outlook 2003 with all your email.
2) During the install, Thunderbird asks if you want to import your email from Outlook, select yes.
3) After install, please verify the import has been done successfully.
4) Go into My Computer and go to the directory where Thunderbird stores your email in its own format. On my PC (using XP), it was C:\documents and settings\<windows user name>\application data\thunderbird\<some gibberish>\mail
5) You will see many files here. You'll also notice some files which share the name of your default mail sub-folders. (ie. inbox and inbox.mst)
6) You'll want to copy the files with no extenstion on to CD or Memory Key and rename them with a .mbox extension. (ie. inbox becomes inbox.mbox). Any custom sub-folders you've created in Outlook in the past will show up here as folders called <sub-folder name>.msf. Go into those sub-folders and look for any files without any extenstions. Repeat the same renaming to .mbox on them as well.
7) Take your memory key or CD to Mac OS X.
The guide then details importing into Entourage, but since you are using Mobile Me I will assume you want to use Apple Mail. Open Mail, go to Import Mailboxes under the File menu, and select mbox files. Choose the folder containing the renamed files and let Mail do its magic. Good luck, and I hope this is helpful. I know it is a pain!