How to Export email from Outlook for import into Mac Apple Mail App, Entourage, etc

  • Congratulations on getting a shiny new Mac!
  • You probably have years worth of email sitting in Outlook.
  • How do you migrate it over?
  • There are different ways to do it, but MessageSave is by far the easiest and most reliable! (As opposed to some of the other methods, it correctly handles timestamps, attachments, sender addresses, foreign language emails, etc.)
  • View the video to see just how easy it is.
  • Download MessageSave and see for yourself how simple it is.

Apple computers are becoming more and more popular. You see the silver MacBooks everywhere. Apple's ad campaigns seem to be working very well as more and more people are switching from Windows computers to Macs. With that, they often have a need to bring their mail over to the new platform.

Outlook is the most popular email client for Windows. MessageSave makes it very easy to export your Outlook email and import it into a Mac mail client, such as Mail.app, Entourage, etc. MessageSave will work with any Outlook email account (PST or Exchange). MessageSave preserves attachments, sender email addresses, message timestamps, multiple languages. Download the trial version and see for yourself how easy it is. MessageSave supports exporting contacts in addition to migrating messages.

The process is very simple:

  1. Use MessageSave to export Outlook email in mbox format.
  2. Copy the mbox file(s) over to the Mac.
  3. Import the mbox file(s) into your Mac mail client, for example, Mail.app, Entourage, etc..
  4. That's it. You're done. View the demo to see how simple it is.

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Note:

  • MBOX format is supported only when using MessageSave with Outlook 2002 or newer.
  • To import an mbox file into Entourage, simply drag and drop it onto one of the folders in the Entourage folder list.
  • Mail.app might have trouble importing very large mbox files (over 5000 messages). If you hit this issue, try splitting the single large mbox file into smaller ones.
  • Mail.app (and Thunderbird) have issues importing mbox files with very long names, or with certain characters, such as #, in the file name. If you see errors, try renaming your mbox file.
  • We have tested MessageSave on folders with tens of thousands of messages - it worked without a hitch. However, exporting large folders might take a bit of time. Also, the evaluation version is limited to processing 50 messages at a time. Be assured that the full version does not have this limit.
  • When you try to import the mbox file(s) into Mail.app, the import dialog may display the mbox files as grayed out. Simply click "Choose" and Mail.app will import the files.

 

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