I've tried to import my messages from Apple Mail to Entourage 2008 however the
importing process doesn't grab my mail messages. It moves my notes and to do
item, however my email messages aren't being brought over. Is there a manual
way to do this? The only way I've discovered so far was to grab each of my
messages one at a time, drag it to the desk top, then drag it into Entourage.
Surely there's an easier way to do it than that?
First, Mail can't export smart mail folders, so you have to move the mail
into a normal folder. This folder can then be dragged to the desktop to form
an 'MBOX' export.
I think this part only applies to older versions of Mail.....Mail's MBOX
format is not the same as an industry standard MBOX file (which Entourage
would have been able to read without any problem!). Mail creates an MBOX
*Folder*. Inside this folder is another folder called "Messages" which will
contain all the emails as .emlx files. Again, this is a non-standard file
type, although in this case the file format is OK. Just rename all these
emlx files to end in .eml and they can be opened in Entourage (or dragged
into a folder)
One other option is to create an IMAP account, for example on Gmail and move
your mail from Apple Mail to your Gmail account. Then create an IMAP account
in Entourage and it will automatically download your mail. PC users
converting to Mac use this method.
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