Interviewed by CNN on 8/4/2010 10:13, Yalmez Yazaw told the world: > How do I export my emails into a format that I can use in outlook?
I imagine that you must have reasons to take such a step, although I can't imagine what they would be. Anyway, it's Outlook's fault, mostly -- they don't offer a flexible enough import process that would work with Mozilla/Thunderbird/Seamonkey mbox files. What it does import reliably is Outlook Express. But OE does not import mbox either... so, what to do? Well, you can drag-and-drop .eml-format email messages into OE. Then you can import from OE to Outlook easily. Unfortunately, Thunderbird and Seamonkey have no easy way to export messages to .eml (it's one of those things that are perenially in the to-do list, it seems...) So what you need is some way to convert mbox files into .eml files. There's a free tool called IMAPsize that will do it. Full instructions (for Thunderbird, but will work with Seamonkey too) here: http://www.broobles.com/imapsize/th2outlook.php The reverse process is easier: as long as you have Outlook installed, Thunderbird and Seamonkey can import the messages in a single step. I don't know what's the problem with the e-mail guys at Microsoft... they don't seem to grasp the idea that people might have been using other products before. I mean, I get the concept of not making it easy to switch to another product -- it's evil, it's despicable, but I can understand the reasoning; other evil products, like Incredimail, do the same. What I don't get is not making it easy to convert *into* your product. *Even from another Microsoft product.* I spent several hours today converting e-mails and contacts from Outlook 2003 (Windows) to Entourage (Mac) for a customer. The job is made quite complicated because: - Entourage can't import from Windows Outlook, only from Mac Outlook 2001 -- and that only with a plugin. - Mac Outlook 2001 can't import the new PST file format Outlook 2003 uses. - Outlook 2001 is a "Classic" app, that is, it was designed to run on MacOS 9 in a PowerPC machine, although it could run under the "Classic Environment" on OSX. The problem is that newer Macs, being Intel-based, no longer offer the Classic environment. So, the rather contrived way to do this, if you go by the Microsoft references, is: 1. Open Outlook 2003, create an "old-style" PST file and copy your stuff into it. Mind the 2 Gb file size limit, though. 2. Find an older Mac and install BOTH Outlook 2001 (available as a free download) and Entourage (commercial, expensive app) in it. Also install the Outlook import plugin in Entourage. 3. Copy/move the "old-style" PST files to the Mac. 4. Import the "old-style" PST files into Outlook 2001. 5. Import the Outlook 2001 content into Entourage. 6. Copy the Entourage mail store to the new Mac. Yes, boys and girls. If you go by the fully-Microsoft party line, you have to do THREE conversion steps and TWO move-from-a-computer-to-another steps. Good luck keeping your sanity. Not having an old Mac available, I had to look into alternate ways to do it. I found the following options: A) Use a mail server (Exchange or IMAP). Move the messages from Outlook into the server, then download them into Entourage. Feasible, but I didn't have a server handy. B) Purchase a commercial product to export Outlook messages into a more convenient format. c) Import the messages from Outlook into Thunderbird, copy the mail store to Mac, then import the Mbox folders into Entourage (which involve a few extra steps, because you have to change the mbox file extension to .MBX and set their Mac attributes as a "text" file) I eventually went with option C. It took a while, but it worked. Address book conversion went much worse, though. Apparently M$ is ditching Entourage and will replace it with a new Outlook for Mac next year. I hope they have the sense of making it read Windows Outlook file formats at the very least. I would like for better support for reading and writing mbox files (it's the native format in Entourage, so they *should* support it), but I'm not holding my breath for it. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... BOFH excuse #328: Fiber optics caused gas main leak *Added by TagZilla 0.066.2 running on Seamonkey 2.0.4 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
