Transferring email to Windoze

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Keith Esau

I tried exporting email folders to a Windows programs using the method
described in help--to a .mbox file. However, I cannot import .mbox in any
Windows program. Outlook, Outlook Express and Netscape email do not
recognize .mbox format.

How do I transfer an email folder (multiple messages) to Windows? I would
rather not re-mail them (the date gets lost), or do them 1 by one (I have
100s of them). Ultimately, I have to transfer them to Netscape Communicator,
but using Outlook or Outlook Express in between is fine.

Keith Esau
[email protected]
 
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Barry Wainwright

I tried exporting email folders to a Windows programs using the method
described in help--to a .mbox file. However, I cannot import .mbox in any
Windows program. Outlook, Outlook Express and Netscape email do not
recognize .mbox format.

How do I transfer an email folder (multiple messages) to Windows? I would
rather not re-mail them (the date gets lost), or do them 1 by one (I have
100s of them). Ultimately, I have to transfer them to Netscape Communicator,
but using Outlook or Outlook Express in between is fine.

Keith Esau
[email protected]
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Take a look at Paul B's 'Import Export' script suite.

It's shareware ($15, IIRC) and there's a trial version at
www.scriptbuilders.net
 
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Mickey Stevens

Take a look at Paul B's 'Import Export' script suite.

It's shareware ($15, IIRC) and there's a trial version at
www.scriptbuilders.net
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Unfortunately the script set is unable to transfer mail messages between
Entourage and other clients. Some other methods (including IMAP and Eudora)
are outlined on the Entourage Help Page:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/help/convert.html>

I'm not sure the Eudora method will work to convert your messages to a
format Netscape can read, but the IMAP option is sure to work.
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Unfortunately the script set is unable to transfer mail messages between
Entourage and other clients. Some other methods (including IMAP and Eudora)
are outlined on the Entourage Help Page:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/help/convert.html>

I'm not sure the Eudora method will work to convert your messages to a
format Netscape can read, but the IMAP option is sure to work.
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Actually, there's a way of doing it directly to Netscape, just like to
Eudora. It requires a different extension for the mboxes there, and I can't
recall what it is. Go find a mailbox file on Windows, wherever it is that
Netscape stores them there. It may be as simple as just changing the ".mbox"
extension you get on the Mac when you drag folder to desktop to the correct
extension for Netscape.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html

Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
ignored.

PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - 2001 or X.
It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.
 
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Keith Esau

Unfortunately the script set is unable to transfer mail messages between
Entourage and other clients. Some other methods (including IMAP and Eudora)
are outlined on the Entourage Help Page:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/help/convert.html>

I'm not sure the Eudora method will work to convert your messages to a
format Netscape can read, but the IMAP option is sure to work.
Click to expand...

I found the solution, and it turned out to be very simple.

The MBOX format files I got from Entourage simply needed to be put in
Netscape's Mail directory WITHOUT the .mbox extension. The process is this:

1. Drag the folder to export from Entourage to the desktop.

2. Rename the file with no extension. The name should be the folder name
you want to end up with.

3. Transfer to the Windows box (shared, emailed, ftp, whatever).

4. In Netscape (on Windows), create a Folder matching the name of your
file. Quit Netscape.

5. Find the new 0-length file in your Mail folder from Netscape. Replace
it with the transferred file.

6. Launch Netscape and click on the folder. All your messages will be
loaded.

7. Repeat for each folder you want to move.

Keith Esau
[email protected]
 
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Paul Berkowitz

I found the solution, and it turned out to be very simple.

The MBOX format files I got from Entourage simply needed to be put in
Netscape's Mail directory WITHOUT the .mbox extension. The process is this:
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You replied to Mickey's message, but I think that's more or less what I
advised you to do, no? I just wasn't sure which extension was needed -
evidently none. Thanks for the detailed steps. It provides another method of
getting messages to Outlook and OE as well (on Windows), since they can
import from Netscape (at least OE can, and Outlook can import from OE).

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html

Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
ignored.

PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - 2001 or X.
It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.
 
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Keith Esau

You replied to Mickey's message, but I think that's more or less what I
advised you to do, no? I just wasn't sure which extension was needed -
evidently none. Thanks for the detailed steps. It provides another method of
getting messages to Outlook and OE as well (on Windows), since they can
import from Netscape (at least OE can, and Outlook can import from OE).
Click to expand...

Yes, but I replied before I saw your message.

Keith Esau
[email protected]
 
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