Moving 'mail' to a windows pc

My miserable boss has given me a lousy windows xp laptop and threatened to sack me if i hold onto the compnay G4 powerbook any longer.
My question is, is it possible to import all of my 'Mail'including the trash and other folders into an email client that works on windows. I am currently using Mozilla on the windows pc as it's the nearest i have yet found to 'Mail'.
Many thanks
Clint

Clint,
Welcome to the Discussions.
In Mail 1.3, you can, via Save As, export any mailbox in mbox format -- read Mail Help for Exporting a Message.
From this mbox format file, you should be able to import that mailbox into Mozilla. You can do this for each mailbox.
However, if you download and install Thunderbird onto the Mac, it might have the facility to import from Mail, and then its files should transfer nicely to your Mozilla or Thunderbird application on the PC.
More questions, or info, please.
Ernie

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