Import OS9 OE mail into mail.app wants OE running

Discussion in 'Apple' started by edwinek, Oct 30, 2004.

  1. edwinek

    edwinek Guest

    Hi,

    I've just got a new PowerMac G5 running OS X. Now I want to import my
    old Outlook Express mail into Mail.app, but that won't work. Mail.app
    wants to see OE running, but since I don't have OE on my OS X machine,
    that won't work. Isn't there a way simply to import mail from the OE
    messages file? I really hope that I won't have to install a classic
    environment and contaminate my OS X installation with
    crash-every-5-minutes OS 9 just import my mail...
    Any ideas?

    Thanks,
    Edwin
     
    edwinek, Oct 30, 2004
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  2. edwinek

    Andrei Ivanov Guest

    Mail.app can't import OE mail without OE/Classic environment installed.
    My hope was that email application which is part of Office:mac v.X
    would import messages without OE/Classic ... but I was wrong here :-(

    What I did was connecting 2nd hard drive, installing MacOS 9.2 on that
    disk, then starting Classic environment, and OE, then running Mail.app
    to import mailboxes. If you've got many separate mailboxes inside your
    Messages file, then I'd recommend to import them one in a time, closing
    both Mail.app and OE between imports (to avoid freezes/crashes on the
    part of OE/Classic).
     
    Andrei Ivanov, Nov 3, 2004
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