Import OS9 OE mail into mail.app wants OE running

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

 

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).