Moving email from a PC to a Mac Mini

GratuitousApplesauce

A friend just bought a Mac Mini and needs to move all of their email address book info and stored email from Outlook on the old PC to Mail.app on the new Mac mini.

Since I don't have much knowledge of the PC world, I'm not sure of how to accomplish this, or where I would look for the appropriate files on the PC to transfer. I thought the easiest way might be to burn a CD of these files on the PC, if I could find them, and then import them into Mail from the CD. Although they have a crossover cable, I don't really feel up to trying to set up networking with a PC, especially one that is having issues involving lots of crashing.

Does anyone know what the best way to go about this is?

BTW, I haven't had the privilege of setting up a brand new Mac, since '94, when I got the only new Mac, I've ever owned. The experience was impressive. It was so dang easy, they didn't really need me there at all. It was as simple as plugging in the cords, hooking up their old PC monitor and their inkjet printer, and then turning it on. Some info and a password was entered, it self-configured the internet connection and started running. Pretty cool.

Vexel

I think the easiest way to get the files onto the Mac would be to email them to themselves. .zip them up and send em. Once they're on the machine, I'm not sure how to get them into Mail.app. However, I'm sure someone here should be able to help. I've never had to do it.

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sketch

It is so easy... yes, even on a PC!

1) open up outlook
2) go into the inbox
3) select all the e-mails
4) drag them into a folder
5) now drag all those files into Mail on the Mac.

Of course, to do step 5, you have to get the files onto the Mac. That can be via network or on a CD. Or zip them up and e-mail them then unzip, etc.

6) do this for each mailbox and folder (deleted mails, sent mails, outbox, etc).

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In case you need to know, I'm using a rev d Powerbook G4 1.67 GHZ 2GB ram OS 10.3.9

krs

Does this actually work with mail on Tiger?
I tried moving my outlook mail from a PC to mail in 10.2 earlier this year and the only way I got anything to work was by collecting the PC mail in folders and sending those as email attachments to the Mac.
Moving them on CD's just didn't work - the Mac couldn't read Outlook mail. In fact I still have those CD's- next time I play with Tiger I'll try that.

BTW - to move the Outlook address book was much easier. There was a utility on the net that converted the format from Outlook to something Mac mail could read - worked great.
Right now I'm still using Outlook Express on OS 9 (in classic mode) because mail in OS 10.2 couldn't import all my UE mail. Hopefully mail in Tiger works a bit better.

GratuitousApplesauce

Hmmmm ... that easy, eh?

Thanks for the info, I'll give it a try with them.