I have a client who has just bought his first iMac after finally throwing his hands up in disgust as Nortons on his clunky Windows Vista computer once again prevented him from doing some perfectly straightforward thing. I helped him transfer everything last week. The only problem was that Lion's Migration Assistant was of no use to us on this occasion since we were unable to get the Mac to talk to the Windows computer (again, I suspect Norton's hand in this). Rather than try to work that out, I decided to just transfer everything manually. It all went smoothly, with everything valuable coming across, including all his contacts, but we choked when it came to his mail.
Windows Mail saves its messages as .eml files, and Mac Mail won't import them. There are commercial .eml to mbox converters available, but they tend to be quite expensive for that they do (which is just s one-off job) and they tend to be available from web sites which look cheap and dodgy, and I can't quite bring myself to commit money on software which is such an unknown quantity. I have followed a strategy which involves importing the .eml files into Thunderbird using a free plugin, then exporting the mail back out as mbox files, or importing directly into Mail from Thunderbird. The import into TBird worked perfectly. Getting from there into Mail not so much. Importing either as mbox or as a direct TBird import, the files appear to work, but there is only one visible message following the import, and its size just happens to be about the same size as the entire expected folder of messages. My question is: is there anyone out there who has had any success with getting Windows Mail messages into Apple Mail without going throughout the Migration Assistant? Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
