Open .pst files on a Mac without Outlook?

[Blue Velvet]

I've got some mailboxes in Outlook 2003 on my Windows work machine that I'd like to export and open on my Mac, maybe saving them on a USB key and taking them home.

Can I open or work with these on my MBP running Leopard? The emails only have to be read-only, even just being able to open and read them would be OK, but I'd also like the attachments, if at all possible.

I can't currently test this on my work (Tiger) Mac as Mail isn't working. Any clues from the wise ones?

Thanks in advance

BV

 

[udance4ever]

i know this post is rather old but i thought i'd bump this thread.

I basically rebuilt my machine from scratch using an Erase & Install of Snow Leopard and want to avoid installing Windows just for the purpose of accessing my .pst archives.

has anyone found a practical way to read old messages in these archives since this was posted without firing up Windows?

 

[Gatteau]

There's an app called O2M. It's not free, but it does the job.

 

[arjen92]

This probably wont help you much, but I wanted my parent to make the switch to mac's. We had 2 laying around. But they wanted their mail on the new mac. So I found a guide using "eudora". Probably wont help you as you need windows, but it will help the first poster (although way too late).

http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=3059

 

[john2006wright]

thanks for this post. I have looking for a simple/free way of doing this. However, I don't have outlook on my PC. I do have the .pst files on my pc and I want to get them into my Mail.app. Will eudora be able to recognise just the .pst files on my PC or does it look for outlook accounts.
I read the instructions and it seems the latter is true but if anyone has tried this I would like to hear if it works.
I tried a similar procedure converting to mbox then to thunderbird then to mail.app but unfortunately I couldn't get it to work for the same reason. It could not import .pst files without it being contained in an outlook account


Thanks,
john