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Document ActionsM$ Outlook to Mail.app - Welcome to the Hotel CaliforniaTrying to get my mail out of MS Outlook on a Windows box to Mail.app on my new iBook has highlighted for me exactly why I hate Microsoft stuff. Microsoft provide plenty of input filters to suck you in, but once they get your data in their format, it is *extremely* painful to get it out again. It feels like *you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave* ;)
I'm not alone in feeling the pain either. There are plenty of posts on
discussion forums all over the web on getting stuff out of Outlook.
Some smart cookie has released something called LibPST but I couldn't see any documentation for it (and I wanted a quick fix). I might come back to it later. One suggestion involved Downloading Netscape Communicator 4.7 on the windows box, importing the email into that. I tried it with Thunderbird, but Thunderbird couldn't find my PST file, which is in a non-standard location. A similar suggestion was to use Eudora to import it, then export from Eudora into the standard mbox format that . At least when I used Eudora, the mail was kept in plain text format. I don't even have Entourage on the Mac, so I wont be able to read 18 months worth of mail until I find a solution. More on this topic when I find a solution |
Followup - How I'm working around it
I have found a way out - via Mozilla Thunderbird. My mail is on an Exchange server, so I just connected to it via IMAP on Thunderbird. Thunderbird only seems to pick up Inbox subfolders it creates, so I've created a mailbox called
Exportand copied the mail I'd like to keep into that.Then, I marked the folder for Offline use. Since Thunderbird stores mail in the same mbox format as Mail.app, it should be an easy matter to import it from there. Yippee!
But it is still a lot of work to get a few documents which are mostly in plain or HTML text.