No, actually I'm not familiar with Outlook on the Mac so I didn't realise that Apple Mail would not import from it.
Heres a few more ideas: If there are just a few emails, of course, you can always OPEN them in mail and then use the "Message" -> "Move To" and select your Account/Inbox to "import" the email into that Mail account Obviously if you are doing this in bulk it would be a very tedious process however! If you can get the emails into Outlook on the mac then this document says it shows you how to get them into Mail: <http://public.iwork.com/document/?a=p99158349&d=Moving_Microsoft_Outlook_fo r_Mac_2011_to_Mac_Mail_v5.pages> I had a quick look and I think the basic idea is that you make a folder in Outlook for Mac put all .eml files into it, drag and drop it to the desktop and so you'll get a .mbox, which you can import into Apple Mail. Not elegant but should work! This page <http://www.broobles.com/eml2mbox/> offers: > eml2mbox - A Ruby eml to mbox converter > This is a platform independant Ruby script for converting multiple eml files > into a single mbox (Unix Mailbox) file whose format is described here. > Generated files can be imported to all email clients under Windows, Linux, > Mac, etc that support the mbox format (most of them do). If you find any > problems importing generated files feel free to contact me (see the bottom of > this page for details). Personally, I know nothing about Ruby or using Ruby scripts - but you may ;o) You mentioned that there are converters out there - but that they are quite expensive. This one is free for single file conversion (obviously of limited use) but only 15 euro for the full version - which doesn't seem that expensive to me: <http://aconcahua.com/eml2emlx/> HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 17/2/12 8:13 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: > > On 16/02/2012, at 6:54 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> Hi Peter, >> >> I just went through the same exercise for Georgie's mum, Wendy (now 91). She >> had a VERY slow Vista machine and since we visit often I decided to take up >> my 24" iMac (now I'm on a nice 27"). The iMac already has accounts for >> Georgie & I so I set up a new account for Wendy. I didn't have the requisite >> cables to make a network connection to the PC, but the data involved would >> happily fit on a USB thumbdrive I had - so that was the way I went. >> >> The iMac has Office 2004 on it and I tend to use Entourage for my email but >> decided to set up Apple Mail for Wendy. I set-up her account and then I had >> expected to be able to import the emails into Mail but, like you, found that >> that did not work. >> >> My solution, like you, was to use an intermediate email program - however I >> used Entourage - since it was already on the machine & I am used to it. >> > > > Unfortunately I upgraded to Office ii some time ago on all my computers. I > have never been an Entourage user, and my crystal ball did not tell me that I > would one day need it for something as arcane as this. And as you say, Outlook > in Office 11 doesn't do it (it uses .pst files!). > > > > 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> -- 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>
