Importing into Outlook from Entourage for Macintosh

[Jack]

Hi - Is there some way to import e-mail messages and contacts (address book)
from Entourage on a Macintosh into Outlook 2003 on a PC? I tried the
"usual" way of creating an ".mbox" from the e-mail folders I wanted to
transfer but couldn't figure out how to get them into Outlook. Will this
work, or is there some other way?

I also exported the Contacts from Entourage as a tab-delimited text file and
tried importing that into Outlook's Contacts, but it was all jumbled and the
fields didn't end up where they were supposed to.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

- Jacki

 

[William Lefkovics [MVP]]

Does your ISP support IMAP where email remains on the server and the client
syncs with message headers instead? That way, email doesn't have to be
'migrated'.

Since you have .mbox you could install Eudora as an intermediary. Outlook
recognizes local Eudora and can import from there. It's messy, but has
worked for me in the past.

 

[William Lefkovics [MVP]]

This person seems to have some advice:
http://blogs.onenw.org/kb/archives/000506.html

 

[Jack]

Does your ISP support IMAP where email remains on the server and the client
syncs with message headers instead? That way, email doesn't have to be
'migrated'.

Yes, we have IMAP support - but how will that work to get the previous
e-mails transferred over since we've already downloaded all this mail off
the server?

Thanks for the response - and the link! I appreciate it!

Jacki

 

[Brian Tillman]

Hi - Is there some way to import e-mail messages and contacts
(address book) from Entourage on a Macintosh into Outlook 2003 on a
PC? I tried the "usual" way of creating an ".mbox" from the e-mail
folders I wanted to transfer but couldn't figure out how to get them
into Outlook. Will this work, or is there some other way?

If you have created the MBOX format (see
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/cross_platform/mac_win.html), you should be
able to import in Outlook using the Netscape importer, since Netscape also
uses MBOX format. This may help as well:
http://scriptbuilders.net/files/exportimportentourage1.3.9.html