{"id":370,"date":"2004-03-06T11:06:54","date_gmt":"2004-03-06T16:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/03\/06\/mozilla-mail-to-outlook-express-import"},"modified":"2004-03-06T11:06:54","modified_gmt":"2004-03-06T16:06:54","slug":"mozilla-mail-to-outlook-express-import-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/03\/06\/mozilla-mail-to-outlook-express-import-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Mail to Outlook Express Import Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a325'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nI just spent a good hour or two puzzling about how to import a bunch of Mozilla Mail into Outlook Express (don&#8217;t patronize me about using OE.  For this purpose OE is a much easier solution than all the other jury-rigging I&#8217;d have to do).   Sounds rather simple right?  Two rather popular email clients.  You would think there WOULD be a way to exchange important data like your email archives, right?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nbzzzzt\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHere are the main issues:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Mozilla has no notion of exporting email into any other format.  It stores its email in the popular UNIX mbox format natively.  You can usually find it in C:\\Documents and Settings\\\\Application Data\\Mozilla\\Profiles\\<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBecause it has no way to export this means that Outlook Express must be able to import mbox format.<\/li>\n<li>Outlook Express can import from Outlook, Netscape 4.x Mail, Outlook Express, and Exchange<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>See a problem here?   <b>THERE&#8217;S NO IMPORTER FROM MOZILLA TO OUTLOOK EXPRESS<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere&#8217;s piles of tools to migrate AWAY from Outlook Express but nothing INTO it.   What a bunch of crock.  So what do you do?   You can <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yqw4j\">Google<\/a> for it (I already tried) and spend minutes (maybe hours) trying to find an answer.   Let me save you some hassle.  Most of them involve something like this:<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMozilla Mail -&gt; Eudora Pro -&gt; Outlook Express<br \/>\n\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere&#8217;s another answer if you have an email infrastructure (self-built or lucky enough to be in a place that has it). IMAP.  I don&#8217;t own a copy of Eudora Pro.  Which method do you think I chose?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just spent a good hour or two puzzling about how to import a bunch of Mozilla Mail into Outlook Express (don&#8217;t patronize me about using OE. For this purpose OE is a much easier solution than all the other jury-rigging I&#8217;d have to do). Sounds rather simple right? Two rather popular email clients. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}