importing an Outlook Express 6 mesage store

[Hamish]

The format of these mail folders on the Intel platform are .dbx files.
Can these be imported directly into Outlook Express 5.0.5 on the Mac?

[Mickey Stevens]

No, but you can import via one of the following ways:

- Export as MBOX files which can be imported into OE.

- Use an IMAP server to transfer messages. Get one from
<http://www.mac.com/>. Set it up on your PC with Outlook Express (settings
are in Help). Make folders on the IMAP server that match your OE folders.
Drag messages into each of these folders. Now, set up the same IMAP account
to access on your Outlook Express for Mac machine. Create folders that
match those on the IMAP server. Drag messages onto the local folders to
copy them. (Note: If you have a lot of messages or attachments, you'll need
to do this several times, as the Mac.com IMAP server has a storage limit)

- Transfer using Eudora. Recommended if you have LOTS of message data.
Download a copy of Eudora Light for Windows if you don't already have the
full version at <http://www.eudora.com/download/>. Import all messages into
Eudora for Windows. Then, locate the mailbox files on your PC system and
get them over to the Mac machine by some means (CD, e-mail, network). Then,
in Outlook Express for Mac, go to File -> Import. Choose 'Import
Information from a text file' and then 'Import Messages from an MBOX format
text file'.

Hope this helps!

On 7/12/02 7:23 PM, in article
5796c0a4.02071...@posting.google.com, "Hamish"
<krev...@xspedient.com> wrote:

> The format of these mail folders on the Intel platform are .dbx files.
> Can these be imported directly into Outlook Express 5.0.5 on the Mac?

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Please post replies to this message within the thread instead of e-mailing
them to me. Thanks!

[Hamish]

In your Eudora import procedure outlined below, I get the Import
information from a text file prompt, but not the subsequent 'Import
messages from an MBOX format text file' one. I only get the option to
drill down into a folder destination and to select any .mbx file, and
then the OE program bombs with an 'Error - end of file reached'
message.

I'm running OE 5.0.5 for the Mac. How about you?

Mickey Stevens <mwst...@eudoramail.com> wrote in message news:<B954E5D4.F85D%mwst...@eudoramail.com>...

[Mickey Stevens]

Sorry, that should have been 'Import Mail from a text file'.

On 7/13/02 7:34 AM, in article
5796c0a4.02071...@posting.google.com, "Hamish"
<krev...@xspedient.com> wrote:

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[Hamish]

This ultimately worked by importing existing OE 6 content into Eudora
on the pc. Eudora 5.1 seems like a pretty good e-mail client to me!
It brings over everything including rules. You then need to copy the
relevant .mbx folders onto a transportable media or over the wire as
you mentioned.

From OE 5.0.5 on the Mac, you can import from an existing application.
Select Eudora and point to the .mbx folder (mine was on a cd). Away
it goes. Nice one!

Now do you know how to use the end key on an iBook keyboard?

HR

Mickey Stevens <mwst...@eudoramail.com> wrote in message news:<B955AB6A.F8A6%mwst...@eudoramail.com>...

[Bradley Warner Tompkins]

in article 5796c0a4.02071...@posting.google.com, Hamish at

krev...@xspedient.com wrote on 2002/07/13 18:06:

> Now do you know how to use the end key on an iBook keyboard?

Taking notice of the fact that "end" appears in light grey, I looked for a
modifier key labeled in like manner. Finding the "fn" key on the far left
at the bottom, I fearlessly started pushing buttons to see what gives. To
my delight, pressing "fn" indeed causes "end", as well as "home", "pg up",
and "pg dn" to do exactly what I expected. I love my iBook!

I'm definitely gonna be using that... :-)

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Brad,

a retired dude who spends entirely too much time online... :-)