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How do I transfer Microsoft Mail (Vista) email to Mac Mail?

by saskiatait Aug 7, 2008 6:56AM PDT

Hello!

If anybody can offer me advice regarding how to transfer my email from Microsoft Mail (a Vista program that is different than Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express)?

I have done quite a bit of internet searches to find an answer to this question, but so far to no avail!

Microsoft Mail on vista exports email files to a .eml file (I think) and not the .mbox files that one needs to import easily into Mac Mail.

I have a Max OS X, version 10.5.4 and the old computer was a Toshiba running Vista.

Thanks very much!
Saskia

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Mail transfer

by mrmacfixit Forum moderator Aug 7, 2008 12:43PM PDT

Assuming that Microsoft Mail does not export nicely to anything that OS X Mail can handle, there is one desperate solution. What's with the name change for MS and when settle on Mail as the name of the program?

Decide what emails are essential and send them to yourself.
Download them using the Mac Mail client.

Not pretty but all I could come up with. As you said, searches did not turn up anything.

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Another suggestion

by tleMega Aug 7, 2008 12:52PM PDT

If your email account allows you to use IMAP or POP3 (most likely POP since you seem to have a Yahoo ID), just configure your account in Mail.app. Then, you should be able to download all of the emails from the online server, assuming that they are stored there and not on the Vista machine itself. I think this should work. I use MobileMe/.Mac, and whenever I send or receive email from Mail or through my web browser, the other will automatically receive the update. Now I know that MobileMe is supposedly a push service, but this basic concept worked before .Mac was replaced. It is really simple; allow the server to talk to the program.

Good luck.

-BMF

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