Transfering mailbox from Outlook Express on MacOS 9 to Mail on MacOS-X

I have an instance of MS Outlook Express running on a MacOS 9 PowerMac G3. I want to transfere the mailbox (all archived e-mails and the mailbox folder structure) to a new computer, a current iMac running MacOS-X and Mail app.
How do I do this?
Thanks!

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Transfering emails from outlook express to mac

Hi All,
First, I did search for this, but didnt find any info.
I have hundreds of emails saved in outlook express on my windows XP machine that I would like to transfer to my new macbook pro. Is there a way to do this?

you can just import it, file->import mailboxes
IIRC that will pull it, never tried it on my own stuff though so im not sure how much and of what it pulls
-matt

Importing messages from Outlook Express on a PC to Mail

I just spent a long time looking through posts to find a way to do this, and still had difficulties, until finding this link:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040325164915651
on one of the posts.
Actually it is simpler than described on that link, presumably because it's a couple of years old and the software has improved.
All you need to do now is Copy-Paste all the emails from each OE folder into a new folder you create on your desktop (OE lets you do this. So you make an Inbox folder, Sent folder, etc). Copy those folders over from PC to Mac (eg using a Fat32 formatted external drive) , then drag & drop those files one folder at a time into a Subfolder that you create in Entourage. (ie you make a new Inbox, Sent etc subfolder) Then Mail will import these folders from Entourage by itself using Import.
You need to have Entourage (part of Office) to do this.
cheers

Since you have a new Mac, you can create a .Mac trial account for free which is good for 60 days I believe.
A .Mac type account with Apple's Mail application is really an IMAP account and behaves in the same way.
When creating a .Mac account with the Mail.app, the default account type provided is .Mac but you can also select IMAP or POP as the account type.
You can create a .Mac account as an IMAP or POP account with a different email client on a Mac or Windows PC.
After creating your .Mac trial account as a .Mac or IMAP account with Mail on your Mac, you can create the account as an IMAP account with Outlook Express on your Windows PC.
After doing so, copy messages from the POP account's Inbox mailbox to .Mac account's Inbox mailbox and the same for the POP account's Sent mailbox to your .Mac account's Sent mailbox.
Launch Mail on your Mac and these messages will be available in your .Mac account's Inbox mailbox and Sent mailbox.
Create two "On My Mac" location mailboxes in Mail - one for transferred Inbox messages and one for the transferred Sent messages.
Transfer these messages from your .Mac account's Inbox mailbox and Sent mailbox to the appropriate user created "On My Mac" mailboxes which are stored locally on the hard drive. This process will save the transferred messages locally on the hard drive and remove the messages from the server at the same time.
A .Mac trail account has limited server storage space so if the Inbox mailbox and Sent mailbox for this POP account in OE on your PC exceeds the server storage limit for a .Mac trail account, you must do this in stages and although this may sound involved, it really isn't and overall is probably the easiest and fastest way to do so.

Importing eMail from Outlook Express into OS X Tiger mail

Am in the process of installing OS X Tiger on a G4 eMac for my wife, who is currently using Outlook Express on an older G3 iMac running OS 9.2.
I would like to be able to import her existing Mail Boxes from OE on the old iMac to Mail on the eMac.
Can anyone indicate which files must be transferred from the iMac to the eMac in order for me to import them into Mail ?
Any help would be appreciated.
benrobe
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Hello,
I have to help a friend migrate from an early 2000 iMac running OS9 to a current new iMac running Leopard (still to be purchased).
According to MacTracker her old iMac does have Fire Wire so I imagine I should be able to hook up the two computers somehow (in Target mode?) and move data files across.
But how about her email? She's currently using Outlook Express, which I've never used and am totally unfamiliar with. Is there some way to export her email from OE in a format that can be imported into the current version of Mail that will come with her new Mac?
thanks,
ncm

I tried installing Thunderbird (and also Netscape 7) on her new iMac while the old iMac's hd was on the new one's desktop (courtesy FireWire Target mode), but neither of them exhibited an option to import from OS9x version of Outlook Express - only Eudora and some other obscure format were selectable from the "import from other email programs" section. I also tried exporting from Outlook Express as text deliniated format (or whatever that's called) but nothing of use was subsequently imported into Apple's Mail client..which seems to hang while trying to import. She's now on 10.5.4 on the new iMac.
Any further suggestions will be greatly appreciated. There must be some way of getting her work email from Outlook Express for OS9 and into Mail for OSX 10.5.4.
Does anybody know if there is a trial version of Entourage? Isn't that Microsoft's evolution of Outlook Express? Would that be able to import email from OE to Entourage and then possibly export that to Mail?

How to transfer all emails and contacts from Outlook Express to Outlook 2010

I have just done this and believe me it was a bit of a marathon! Microsoft tell you that you need to have both Outlook Express and Outlook 2010 running on the same machine. If, like me, your Outlook 2010 in running on a Windows 7 platform there is a problem.
Until now I have been using Outlook Express on a Desktop running XP Pro. It has Outlook 2007 but it won’t run owing to a corrupted file. I set up my email account on an old XP laptop which has Outlook 2007. This is how I transferred emails between 2 machines
running Outlook Express:
After setting up the account (on the old laptop) I created sub-folders exactly the same as my existing account. Having got some emails in the inbox I made sure that each new sub-folder contained at least one random email simply by drag and drop. It seems to
validate the folders. I then copied the folders from the maintenance directory on the desktop (you find this under Tools – Options – Maintenance) and pasted them into the equivalent folder on the this old laptop so they overwrote those present. I transferred
the contacts simply using Export – Address Book using a csv file. I then set up the email account in Outlook 2007 on the old laptop and ran an import from Outlook Express which was fine as per Microsoft’s instructions. On that machine I then exported to a
backup pst file which I transferred to my new Windows 7 machine and imported successfully into Outlook 2010. Perhaps there are easier ways but at least it worked!

You can directly do the same, visit https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/196215 to know the steps.

Exchange 2010 Auto-Mapping not removing mailbox from Outlook

I am having an issue that others seem to have as well. When I give Full Access to another mailbox, auto-mapping brings it in to the users Outlook 2010 client. However, when I remove that users access to the shared mailbox it doesn't remove the
mailbox from Outlook.
I know that I can go the shared account in ADSIedit and edit the msExchDelegateListLink and remove the user that should no longer have access, but this is not a good solution. I feel this is a bug that Microsoft should address and release a patch for.
Does anyone know of a fix? Not a workaround, an actual fix?

Hi,
Based on my experience, we can take the following actions to remove the additional mailbox :
1. Turn off the auto-mapping feature for your account:
Add-MailboxPermission usermailbox –user PersonBeingGrantedRights –AccessRights ‘FullAccess’ –AutoMapping:$false
2. Remove the full access permission by using EMC or EMS.
3. Clear the msExchDelegateListLink attribute for all mailboxes which are being displayed as an additional mailbox in Outlook. In your case, you need change 10 msExchDelegateListLink attributes.
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Can't import from OUTLOOK EXPRESS 5 to Mail

I was trying to import contacts and e-mails from OUTLOOK EXPRESS and somehow all my information seemed to be erased from OUTLOOK.
When I try to open it up it doesn't have all my emails and addresses. It's as if it just got installed. I don't know where to look for this info in my hard drive.
Called APPLE and they told me that it could be that it got corrupted and deleted.
I have years of information in there. Any suggestions?

Outlook 5 -> Mail
You can't go directly from Outlook 5 to Mail but you can do Outlook 5 -> Entourage -> Mail and that works very well
Your mail in Outlook 5 (I am assuming you're running Outloook Express 5.x under OS 9.2.x) is in the MUD folder. You'll find it in Documents > Microsoft User Data > Identities > Main Identity
If the Main identity is empty do a search for "Main Identity" and see if there are any other folders of the same name
If you can't locate it, restore it from a backup, import it into Entourage and then into Mail

How to drag and drop an email from Outlook Express (with example code)

Hi,
It is possible to drag a mail from Outlook Express and drop it on the desktop, and the file created is a .eml, which is a text file.
If I drop it into a Java application, no DataFlavor is provided to make the data transfer possible.
As the data to transfer is a text, it should be possible to drop it.
How to make a DataFlavor available and recover the text as a stream of characters?
Example code
The small application below shows the MIME type of the data that is about to be dropped. If you drag an icon from the desktop, a type will be displayed; if you drag an Outlook Express mail, no type will be displayed.
Thanks.
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor;
import java.awt.dnd.DropTarget;
import java.awt.dnd.DropTargetDragEvent;
import java.awt.dnd.DropTargetDropEvent;
import java.awt.dnd.DropTargetEvent;
import java.awt.dnd.DropTargetListener;
import java.util.List;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JTree;
public class TestSDN extends JFrame {
    void run () {
        JLabel lab = new JLabel();
        lab.setPreferredSize (new Dimension (100, 100));
        lab.setOpaque(true);
        lab.setBackground(Color.RED);
        getContentPane().add (lab);
        new DropTarget(lab, new DropTargetListener(){
            public void dragEnter(DropTargetDragEvent dtde) {
                System.out.println("dragEnter DataFlavors="+dtde.getCurrentDataFlavors().length);
                for (DataFlavor df: dtde.getCurrentDataFlavors())
                    System.out.println("DataFlavor MIME type="+df.getMimeType());
            public void dragExit(DropTargetEvent arg0) {
            public void dragOver(DropTargetDragEvent arg0) {
            public void drop(DropTargetDropEvent arg0) {
            public void dropActionChanged(DropTargetDragEvent arg0) {
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        new TestSDN().run();
}Edited by: JavaGame on Jan 29, 2009 9:56 AM
Edited by: JavaGame on Jan 29, 2009 9:57 AM

It might just be Microsoft not using standards? I remember having a similar situation - I had an application that could have a zip entry fron 7-zip drag-and-dropped into it (came over as plain text, or maybe an InputStream, can't remember), but when you drill into a zip file with Windows (Vista at least), and try to drag-and-drop a zip entry from Windows Explorer, Java shows no dataflavors available. I just assumed Microsoft wasn't exporting the zip entry in any standard format (such as plain text).
Sorry, I know that wasn't very helpful, just thought I'd share a similar experience. :)

Importing Address Groups from Outlook Express 5 (Mac) to OS 10.3 Mail

I've successfully imported all my emails and email folders from Outlook Express (Mac) to Mail. The contacts imported into my Address Book, but not collected into their groups. I need those address groups!
Thanks for any pointers you can offer.

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Posting from Outlook express

Hi,
Is it possible to post to this group directly from Outlook Express?
JP

Hi Luigi,
have a look at this helper tool: http://freenet-homepage.de/ukrebs/english/dbxconv.html
Good Luck
Stefan

Migrating from Outlook Express (PC) to Entourage (Mac)

Hi,
I have recently joined thE APPLE Mac community with my first mac purchase. I am having a frustrating time doing migration(Exporting) of Outlook Express messages and contacts to my Mac's MsOffice Entourage 2008.
Is there any easy and simple method I can do for the exporting and importing?
Has anyone do something like what I wanted?Care to share your method?
Before installing Entourage, I was trying out Leopard's Address Book and Mac's very own Mail.
But these 2 seems to be so difficult to use especially in adding of contacts, importing,etc.
Entourage proved to be a tough nut to crack too for immigrant of PC's outlook express to Mac's entourage too....
any advice for me?
Has been trying for 2 weeks and I am still unable to do a full migration to Mac yet...

Hi,
You won't be able to use outlook express on the mac as it doesn' exist, unless you install parallel or vmware on your mac. I have however successfully transferred my sisters outlook express email using a combination of eudora and free eudora import tool for mac.
Go to this site, it has everything you need to do it successfully. Follow the instructions exactly and it will work perfectly

Important contacts list from Outlook Express

I am struggling to figure out how to import our contacts list from Outlook Express into iTunes so that we can then move them onto our new ipad mini. Whatever step(s) am I missing? Thank you & standing by.......

I can't find any documentation but I want to remember that iTunes doesn't work with outlook express.
if it is an option, you get your contacts on by connecting your device, opening iTUnes, navigating to the 'info' tab (the name did change but basically it's the tab to set up the e-mail, notes, etc that you sync)
If express is an option you'll see it listed as a choice.
If it's not then you can always mail your contacts out of outlook, open that mail on your iPad and save them from there. I had to do it once and I could only figure out how to do it one at a time but there may be a better way.

Migration from Outlook Express loses everything after "group"

Hello,
I migrated from Outlook Express to Thunderbird on XP, then moved the files to Windows 8.
I had one "group" in my OE address book. Nothing after that group name (which began with an H) was migrated into the new address book. In other words, I lost everything after H.
I also have these contacts on Gmail. Is there an easy way to retrieve them from OE (I guess I could delete the group and start over, but that's a long process and I fear losing the mail I've already sent on TB), or is there an easy way to get them from gmail?
Thanks.
S

there are several solutions to your problem, which is best for you I do not pretend to know.
There is the option of simply copying the WAB file from outlook express to Windows 7 asnd double clicking on it to have it imported to the windows contacts folder. I have instructions here http://thunderbirdtweaks.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/windows-contacts.html that include the windows contact folder into Thunderbird.
Alternatively you can install one of the gmail contact sync add-ons. I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/google-contacts

Can't import emails from outlook express into mail

Just bought a macbook, I'm new into MAC, I'm a MAC ROOKIE. I'm trying to import my email from my microsoft outlook express to my MAC MAIL, I followed the instructions to import from outlook but when I locate the outlook files for my emails (they have extension .dbx but it won't let me select the files. Besides in the outlook folder there are dozens of files (1 per email subfolder). What am I doing wrong that I can't import the emails, nor the address book?
Thxs!!!
Avecesar

Pay attention to the information Mail displays during the import process. It could be that it wants you to select the folder that contains the files to be imported, rather than the files themselves.
EDITED: Now that I've read your post again, I don't think you're going to be able to do this on your MacBook, as importing from Outlook Express requires that application to be running in the "Classic" environment, which isn't available for Intel-based Macs.
Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about how importing from Outlook Express is supposed to work, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

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