Hi, What type of email account are you using? If you are using an Exchange account, your emails, calendars, addresses are by default stored on the Exchange server. When you set up the Exchange account in Outlook on a Mac, your emails, calendar items, addresses will be sync to Outlook for Mac. If you are using other account type, I'm afraid that Outlook cannot directly import from Apple Mail. The easiest approach is to use an IMAP or Exchange account configured in both apps, and move all the messages through there. Hope this helps.
Outlook 2011 attaches the messages as a '*.eml' file not a msg file. There is nothing you can do to change that behavior. I did a test and attached a message in Outlook 2011 and sent it to my Hotmail account (using Online).
Regards, Steve Fan Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they helped. If you have feedback for TechNet Subscriber Support, contact. Hi, As we know that Apple mail saves emails in MBOX format and MS Outlook does not support MBOX file so, it is required to format. For that, you can try quick solution i.e; SysTools MAC MBOX converter which easily converts Apple Mail Data into Outlook PST format as well as 3 more formats. After that you can import converted PST file in MS Outlook 2016 for MAC. In Outlook there will be 2 option to import file. One is for PST and another is the OLM file.
So, you have to select 'PST'. After completion of import process, you can see your Apple mails in Microsoft Outlook 2016 MAC.
Thanks & Regards Kelvin Howard. Yes you can easily Migrate your Apple mail database to Outlook PST format here you need to install both software while you are performing this conversion from manual channel, while migrating your MBOX file to PST you need to remember several thing like in manual process here is a chance of data corruption, data loose or time consuming. If you, not in mood to take risk with your mail backup file so you can try commercial channel to perform this conversion, you can find lots of example of commercial tool on internet i have found one of them usefull you can try this too.
I thank everyone for their assistance. For anyone that needs to do this, here is what worked for me: I had Outlook 2011 and Entourage 2008 installed on the old computer. I exported all Entourage files seperately - calendar, notes, tasks, mail, then imported them to Outlook 2011. I probably should have just imported from a previous version of Outlook as suggested above in one of the posts. I then exported all files from Outlook 2011 and saved them on the new computer. I started Outlook 2016 and imported all of these in. Everything seems to work well - none of the message rules work, however, so I had to re-enter those in.
If you were using Windows the typical approach might be to create a PST file and save everything in that on the first (older) computer, and then open the PST file on the newer computer and choose what you want to import. However you are using a Mac and Microsoft slime balls that they are do not allow Entourage nor even Outlook on the Mac to create PST files. The only backup function of Entourage is to backup everything absolutely everything in to a single massive olm file. Even worse the only way to use it on the newer computer is to import everything, absolutely everything on to the new computer.
You cannot chose specific folders to backup or restore - unlike you would be able to do on a Windows PC with a PST file. So, if as Microsoft suggest you do backups to olm files, each will be the size of your entire mail database, if you then import one of these files just to get at a single message you have to import the entire ohm file of possibly tens of thousands of emails potentially doubling the size of your mail database. This is not a Mac problem it is the slimy toads at Microsoft problem. However If you have everything stored in your MS Exchange account anyway, then you don't need to backup and restore anything anyway, all you need to do is add the account to Outlook on the new Mac and it will re-download all the messages, contacts, and calendar data once again. You should be able to separately export just the contacts from Entourage but as far as I remember you cannot export the calendar data. When you install Office 2016 and run Outlook for the first time, it will ask if you have a previous database to import.
If Office 2011 or earlier is already on the drive, it should automatically find the folder Main Identity and offer to import it. Since you are changing Macs, all you need to do is copy the Main Identity folder over to your new Mac. You'll find it in your user account. Drop it anywhere on the new Mac (such as the desktop). Run Outlook 2016 and point it to the location where you copied your previous data to. The Main Identity folder contains everything from your old email, which includes all Inbox folders, Sent, Drafts, your contacts, email settings, etc.
Once imported, the data is saved to a new location and the Main Identity folder can be deleted since it will no longer be used. I thank everyone for their assistance. For anyone that needs to do this, here is what worked for me: I had Outlook 2011 and Entourage 2008 installed on the old computer. I exported all Entourage files seperately - calendar, notes, tasks, mail, then imported them to Outlook 2011. I probably should have just imported from a previous version of Outlook as suggested above in one of the posts. I then exported all files from Outlook 2011 and saved them on the new computer.
I started Outlook 2016 and imported all of these in. Everything seems to work well - none of the message rules work, however, so I had to re-enter those in. Where you can download the full Office 2011 installer. You should be able to run it in demo mode long enough to import your 2008 data so you can get that into Office 2016. I cannot vouch for the safety of files downloaded from this site.
Proceed at your own risk. For a reasonably safe method, make a complete and restorable backup of your system, first! Install Office 2011 and import the 2008 data. Copy the converted 2011 Main Identity folder to another drive.
Restore your system to remove any and all changes made by the 2011 installer. Copy the 2011 data back and import it into Office 2016. How I was able to export all from Entourage and import into Outlook 2016: Converting from Mac Entourage e-mail to a PST file for import into Mac Outlook 2016 Purchase SYSTOOLS’ “SysTools Mac MBOX Converter” and install. Runs on a Mac, is a little pricey for a one-trick pony, but it does work.
From within Entourage, export the mailbox – resulting output will be “ Main Identity.rge” file. Right-click or on the Main Identity file and select Show Package Contents. E-mail is in Mail/On My Computer/ (Folders listed below) Deleted Items, Drafts, Inbox, Junk E-mail, Saved Messages, Sent Items Within each of the mailbox folders listed above is its respective.mbox file. Right-click on ‘Mail’, or on ‘On my Computer’, or the desired mailbox and select Copy.
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On the Desktop, right-click Paste, then just close the Finder window that is showing the Entourage Package Contents (you can always re-open it the same way). Do not delete the Main Identity file as you may struggle initially or need to retrieve deleted e-mails you originally thought you don’t need. Note: You could import the mbox file(s) directly into Mac Mail if you so desire. Create a folder on the Desktop where you will ultimately save the PST file(s) to. Run Mac MBOX Converter and follow these basic steps until you get the hang of it. From the choices listed on the right side, select Add File(s) and navigate to the desired mbox file and select it and then select the Open button.
Select the Next button and make sure PST is selected and the filter dates are the desired beginning and ending date range. Select the Browse button to select your destination path for the resulting PST file. Select the Export button and observe the status. When complete, in Outlook select the File menu Import and navigate to your PST file.
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Outlook will create PST folder under On My Computer. Within the folder will be 6 other folders, but all the imported e-mails will be in the Mails folder. You can highlight and drag e-mails to desired location mailbox or folder locations, rename folders, etc. Note: If you have multiple Entourage folders and sub-folders, it will take a while to recreate everything as you may have had it set up in Entourage. It will be cumbersome at first, but you’ll establish a rhythm and it will eventually go much quicker.
Remember to retain the Main Identify file. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.
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