Outlook on PC to Mail on OSX

[MisterMe]

.... Why would anybody need a converter from Mac OE to Mac Mail? ....

For people who upgraded from MacOS 9 to MacOS X. Not all of us came over from the Dark Side.

 

[balamw]

Like .Mac...? 60 days free trial...

I agree with the IMAP suggestions. For a while there a few years back I was running Pegasus on my Win box to serve mail by IMAP to the other boxes in the house. Now I just use gmail.

I'm a bit surprised that there's no simple version of Courier-IMAP around for Tiger, so you could run your own, with a Maildir back-end, but I guess that is a feature reserved for OS X Server.

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[nylon]

Like .Mac...? 60 days free trial...

But can you setup your .Mac imap account in Outlook on a Windows box and backup your mail to it, or is it only reserved for Macs. If you can then more power to the people.

In fact if you can then Apple should actively promote that so that switchers not only get the ability to move their email over seamlessly but also so that more switchers are encouraged to try the .Mac service.

 

[kiwi-in-uk]

The IMAP approach is good (I tried it) but is not always practical. I was converting around 12,000 messages and attachments totalling over 4GB.

Does anyone know how Outlook2mac handles large volumes of messages?

 

[danny_w]

For people who upgraded from MacOS 9 to MacOS X. Not all of us came over from the Dark Side.

So OE was the mail client for OS 9? I didn't know that (I'm new to Macs). Thanks for the info.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

But can you setup your .Mac imap account in Outlook on a Windows box and backup your mail to it, or is it only reserved for Macs. If you can then more power to the people.

In fact if you can then Apple should actively promote that so that switchers not only get the ability to move their email over seamlessly but also so that more switchers are encouraged to try the .Mac service.

I hope so, since this is what Apple suggests themselves in the article I provided a link for earlier in this thread, Mac OS X Mail: How to import email from a non-Macintosh computer, though without mentioning Outlook specifically...

Outlook can be made to handle IMAP, right...?

So OE was the mail client for OS 9? I didn't know that (I'm new to Macs). Thanks for the info.

One of many, yes. I used Eudora most of my pre-OS X days... much, much better...

 

[bursty]

The IMAP approach is good (I tried it) but is not always practical. I was converting around 12,000 messages and attachments totalling over 4GB.

Does anyone know how Outlook2mac handles large volumes of messages?

The account I used it on today was around 3000+ emails, totalling over a gig with attachments. Took maybe 10 minutes or so to archive on my old POS Dell laptop, then another 5 minutes or so importing in Mail on my new MBP

Overall, very happy with how simple O2M was, definitely worth the $10

 

[MisterMe]

So OE was the mail client for OS 9? I didn't know that (I'm new to Macs). Thanks for the info.

When Apple bundled Internet Explorer (in addition to Netscape Communicator) with MacOS 8/9, it also bundled Outlook Express. To this day, Apple bundles these apps with the Classic environment.