How to view old saved emails with modern software?

[flat6pilot]

Sometime in 2001 I switched from Mac to PC. I had the good sense to save/export all my emails from the Mac OS outlook at the time. I recently found that file on an old CD. It's just a binary file? not in any kind of format. My PC doesn't recognize it but MacOS Sequoia will open it in TextEdit. The emails are readable as text using TextEdit with photos as Base64.

This is a window back into my life as a teenager and has let me revisit memories with old friends, girlfriends, etc.

Is there anyway I can "import" this file into any modern software and view the emails correctly in an outlook like program? I did try OE classic on PC but it would not recognize the file. Wanted to know if there was anything else...

Thank you.

 

[eyoungren]

Sometime in 2001 I switched from Mac to PC. I had the good sense to save/export all my emails from the Mac OS outlook at the time. I recently found that file on an old CD. It's just a binary file? not in any kind of format. My PC doesn't recognize it but MacOS Sequoia will open it in TextEdit. The emails are readable as text using TextEdit with photos as Base64.

This is a window back into my life as a teenager and has let me revisit memories with old friends, girlfriends, etc.

Is there anyway I can "import" this file into any modern software and view the emails correctly in an outlook like program? I did try OE classic on PC but it would not recognize the file. Wanted to know if there was anything else...

Thank you.

You said you exported them from Outlook right? Why not try using Outlook on Mac? If you have it installed you can make a new profile, if not just install it but don't set up any email accounts.

Then just drag and drop the file in to Outlook, or alternatively see if you can import mail from a file.

I don't know if that would work, but I've always used Entourage/Outlook (both PC and Mac) and in the early 00s you'd just repopulate mail in the manner I just described.

Since this is the PowerPC forum, presumably you're going to want Entourage though. IIRC, it didn't change to Outlook until after the Intel era got started. Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is the last version that will run on PowerPC.