Outlook Express mail to Mac Mail

I hope this is the right forum for this post, I don't see one that looks more appropriate .....
I have a brand new iMac. I have an older XP PC with a lot of email in Outlook Express (not Outlook). I want to move it.
I've googled how to migrate the mail, there are lots of responses about using 3rd party utilities, etc.
My question is, is there an Apple "endorsed" method? What's the best method? I'm not keen on installing random applications from other countries to convert all of my mail, etc.
Any tips/advice would be appreciated!

If you are accessing your Comcast POP account with Outlook Express on your Windows PC, create your .Mac account as an IMAP account with OE.
Create a .Mac server stored mailbox for Comcast received messages and another for Comcast sent messages.
Copy the messages from the Comast Inbox and Sent mailbox to the designated server stored .Mac mailboxes.
After doing so, when launching the Mail.app on your Mac, these server stored mailboxes created with OE on your Windows PC and the transferred messages will be available.
Create two "On My Mac" location mailboxes - one for the transferred Inbox messages and one for the transferred sent messages. Transfer the messages from the server stored mailboxes to these "On My Mac" location mailboxes. This process will store the messages locally on the hard drive and remove the messages from the server at the same time.

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