[InactionMan]

I need to get all the email from an old Windows ME computer to a new Mac. The emails are all stored in Outlook Express 6. The Windows machine can no longer connect to the internet in any way and it only has one USB 1.1 port and one PS/2 port. There's about 60MB of emails on the old shitbox.

There is a Windows program that will convert the OE .dbx file to a standard MBOX file. Anyone have experience with these? I've also read that you can use Entourage as a go-between. Again, anyone had success doing this?

So I guess what it boils down to is:

What's the best way to get these emails on to the Mac?

What's the best way to get these emails into Mail.app?

[danielsza]

What i would do is get the windows box connected to the Internet, and then use a IMAP server to sync your emails between the windows box and your new Mac. Maybe you could get a usb-ethernet adaptor or a new nic?

But if you can't do that, then you could try converting your emails, but i think that they will only be plain text. Once they are converted I would using smb (but i gonna guess you have a hardware problem so i doubt that would work). So maybe burn a cd or use a usb drive?

I think that Mail.app should have no problem importing mbox files.

[FFL]

1. Convert them on the PC using the Windows programs.

2. Copy the converted emails to a USB drive (small ones like 128 MB are dirt cheap if you don't already have one), or burn a CD if you can.

3. Copy the converted emails to the Desktop of your Mac.

4. Tell Mail to import them.