importing mail from Outlook Express 6 into Entourage

[googleadr1a]

Hi - The article "Six ways to import your e-mail into Entourage", dated
July 8 :

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/entourage2004/using.aspx?
pid=usingentourage2004&type=howto&article=/mac/LIBRARY/how_to_articles/officex/en_importemail.xml

says that Entourage can import mail from Outlook Express 5. Does
anyone know if it imports from Outlook Express 6 also?

If not, what is the best current advice for doing this import? I've
looked through quite a few previous postings about this topic here and
elsewhere, but haven't seen much that is practical for me.

I have approximately 3000 OE folders in a deep hierarchy of folders,
approx 2 GB of mail (perhaps 100,000 messages). So methods that
involve manual recreation of the folder hierarchy, re-emailing
messages, etc. are not going to cut it. Losing attachments is a no-no
also.

Thanks, Dave

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

Hi - The article "Six ways to import your e-mail into Entourage", dated
July 8 :

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/entourage2004/using.aspx?
pid=usingentourage2004&type=howto&article=/mac/LIBRARY/how_to_articles/officex
/en_importemail.xml

says that Entourage can import mail from Outlook Express 5.

That means Outlook Express MAC 5, not Outlook Express WINDOWS 5.

Does

anyone know if it imports from Outlook Express 6 also?

How could it possibly. You can't have OE 6 WINDOWS on a Mac.

If not, what is the best current advice for doing this import? I've
looked through quite a few previous postings about this topic here and
elsewhere, but haven't seen much that is practical for me.

I have approximately 3000 OE folders in a deep hierarchy of folders,
approx 2 GB of mail (perhaps 100,000 messages). So methods that
involve manual recreation of the folder hierarchy, re-emailing
messages, etc. are not going to cut it. Losing attachments is a no-no
also.

Get an enormous IMAP account and transfer 100 MB of mail at a time.

Or find some Windows utility that will convert OE folders to MBOX format. I
believe there are one or two.


--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
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[googleadr1a]

Paul - Thanks - I'd jumped to the conclusion that file
formats/structure for Outlook Express were same on Windows and Mac. So
much for that idea.

Also apologies for not including more detail. Here's the details:

Moving FROM: Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Outlook Express 6

Moving TO: Apple Mac OS X Panther v10.3, Entourage in Microsoft
Office:mac 2004 Standard Edition

I'm a little unclear on your IMAP suggestion. Is there some capability
in OE for moving large amounts of email TO an IMAP server. (As I
mentioned, emailing messages one at a time is not going to be
practical.)

Thanks, Dave

 

[Michel Bintener]

Hi Dave.
I'm not really sure about Outlook Express 6, but I can tell you that the
e-mail formats for Outlook Express 5.5 and Entourage 2004 are identical,
since both save messages as .eml files. Theoretically, dragging your
messages from OE into some folder on your PC should save them all as .eml,
which you can then transfer to your Mac and drag into your Entourage window.
However, you stated in your earlier post that you have quite a lot of
messages and folders, so that method, while it is perfectly usable for a
smaller number of e-mails/folders, is probably not advisable. But it works
nonetheless, and I just thought I should let you know.

Michel

 

[googleadr1a]

Hi - Thought I'd let people know that I eventually got my mail moved
over. Instead of moving to Entourage, I moved to Apple's mail.app. I
copied the Windows Outlook Express 6 set of folders to the Mac, then
used a beta version of
Emailchemy (http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/), kindly
provided by Matthew Hovey from Weirdkid Software, to do the conversion.
It appears the conversion was flawless, retaining all attachments and
the hierarchy structure.

Dave