If you use Apple's Mail application, there will probably come a time when you'll want to move your email messages and email account to another Mac. Maybe you just purchased a new Mac. Or maybe you've kept your personal email at work, and you now want to move those emails and that account to your Mac at home.
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To import emails from Mac Mail to Outlook:You may extract emails from Mac Mail app using this free tool (for Windows):Or the free Email Extractor tool for Mac OS:After that you may use any other tool to import extracted emails to Outlook. Or just open them if your Outlook version is 2007 or 2010.To export emails from Outlook to Mac Mail you may do the following:1. Use the Outlook Export Wizard from to save emails contacts and other Outlook items to files.2. Transfer extracted emails to Mac OS computer or connect to the folder containing EML files via network3. Run Mac Mail4. Select portion of EML files5.
Drag them into desired Mac Mail folder.Your emails will be imported automatically.
Newer versions of Mail, by default, don't show your Outbox in your folder list. Even if you go offline and then compose a new email and hit Send, you will still not see an Outbox (some users note that their Outbox will show up temporarily, but will be gone after restarting Mail). Many of us are very particular about email delivery and want to know if we have messages waiting to go out.Searching around reveals a few articles and such, but most are very old (circa 2007) and not relevant to the newer version(s) of Mail in OS X Lion. The trick to getting the Outbox to stay permanently is to add it to your Favorites bar.
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But before you do that, you have to be able to see it. Here's how:. Go to Mail Preferences and to Accounts. Pick an account and under 'Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP),' click what's currently selected and choose 'Edit SMTP Server List.' Surely the Outbox is a vestige from days when people weren't connected to the Internet all the time. Messages would sit there until you connected to the internet, and then they would be sent.These days, messages are sent as soon as you. Send them, so there's no longer a need for this limbo.'
Many of us are very particular about email delivery and want to know if we have messages waiting to go out.' Isn't it more likely that many people assume their message has been sent, unless the Outbox appears?. Some people travel a lot, and find that the internet is actually not always available everywhere.
In fact, it turns out that there are quite a lot of places where it's not. Furthermore, some people have things like corporate email servers which require them to be connected to a VPN to send email when offsite, which they are often not, whether because of lack of an internet connection or other issues. The problem is compounded by the fact that when you are frequently offline, Mail seems to do a somewhat bad job at actually sending things when you do come back online. Or so one might suspect, but it's hard to verify and even harder to report bugs when the outbox isn't visible to show that you've got waiting outbound messages.
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