HOW DO I TRANSFER MACINTOSH OUTLOOK EXPRESS EMAIL TO PC OUTLOOK/OUTLOOK
EXPRESS, AND VISA VERSA?

-You have 4 choices:

TO DISK: PC TO MACINTOSH
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Before you import these PC files, you need to setup the Mac to correctly
recognise those files as OE email docs. Go to File Exchange control panel,
and create a new entry..

1) The PC file extension will be ".eml" (without the "").
2) The application to use to recognise the file will obviously be Outlook
Express for Macintosh v5.0x (in this example).
3) The file TYPE will be "M822" (don't type in the "").
4) OK your entry and quit the control panel.
5) You can now insert the PC Zip/floppy disk.
6) Drag and drop all of the email files onto OE's (Mac Edition) Inbox
window, or into any folder that you have made in OE. These emails will
appear as unread, boldened, messages.
7) All done.

TO DISK: MACINTOSH TO PC
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In order for the PC to recognise Outlook Express's email file format, you
will have to append a dot three character extension to ALL files...

1) If need be, create some folders in the finder, in order to organise your
saved to disk email messages.
2) Go through all of your folders in the Mac version of OE, and save them to
disk. To do this quickly you can select all emails in each folder and simply
drag 'n drop them, but only if you have v5.0x Macintosh edition (previous
versions don't) into your [hard disk] folder(s), that you have prepared.
4) Ensure that all saved email files have the ".eml" filename extension on
them.
3) Now copy them to a PC Zip/floppy disk.
4) On the PC side, you should be able to drag 'n drop them into OE's Inbox
window, or into any folder that you have made in OE. These emails will
appear as unread, boldened, messages.

TO EMAIL BOX: VIA POP MAIL SERVER
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1) Select all emails and click on 'Forward', or with a Rule; you can set it
to send any emails in a specific folder to a specified email address - a
sort of 'drop folder'.
2) Type in your email address, and click 'Send' (only useful for a
handful of emails).
3) SETTING UP A RULE (FOR MACINTOSH):
a) Make a new rule for your Mail account.
b) In the Rule window set the 'If' section to: 'Folder' - 'Is' 'your
forwarding folder'
c) In the 'Then' section, set it to: 'Forward to' and enter your email
address.
d) Ensure that this box.. "Stop applying rules to this message" is ticked.
e) Now edit the 'Send & Receive' schedule to only send emails, so that you
don't receive what you just sent.
4) Go to your PC, and download your emails.

TO EMAIL BOX: VIA IMAP MAIL SERVER
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Same sort of procedure as the POP Mail Server, except you can organise those
emails on the server.
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Or, as another option, review this article:
311129 - ENT2001: How to Use IMAP to Move Messages Between a PC and a
Macintosh in Entourage, Outlook, or Outlook Express:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=311129
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Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications
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"dogsnack" wrote in message
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Is it possible to export OE mail/settings to power mac? I want to backup
entire profile to zip drive but seems very complicated-