How to move emails from PC Vista to iMac?

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My wife has a dell PC running Vista. She got so fed up with it that she bought me a new iMac, commandeered my old one and ditched the Dell. She would really like to get access to her Vista emails on her iMac. Is this possible? We're both running Windows XP in VMWare Fusion if that would help as a half-way house.
 
She was using WinMail (Windows Mail?). Does that make a difference? Thanks for the URL - it looks very helpful.
 
"Winmail" might mean Outlook, or perhaps Outlook Express... do either of these ring a bell?

If so, there are a couple of procedures you can use depending on whether she's using Outlook or Outlook Express, some requiring intermediary software like Entourage (part of Microsoft Office for Mac).

Here's a run-down posted here a while ago on going from Outlook Express to Mail.app, with the 30-day free trial of Entourage as an intermediary:

http://macosx.com/forums/howto-faqs/48127-howto-outlook-pc-outlook-express-mail-app.html

If you don't mind spending a little money ($10) and having an all-in-one solution to move ALL your mail from the PC to the Mac, you may want to look at:

http://www.littlemachines.com/
 
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It's definitely WinMail, a different app to Outlook and apparently people have great difficulty moving mail from WinMail on Vista to Outlook on XP. (I think WinMail doesn't run in XP).
 
ElDiabloConCaca said:
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Here's a run-down posted here a while ago on going from Outlook Express to Mail.app, with the 30-day free trial of Entourage as an intermediary:

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Entourage is somewhat compatible with Exchange, but it is largely incompatible with Outlook. This is one reason that Microsoft dropped Entourage and will return Outlook to the Mac.
 
Right... which is why I linked to that article to explain how to move from Outlook Express. Entourage is a good middleman in that case; in the case of plain Outlook (non-Express), it's useless.
 
OK, but my problem is with WinMail, not with Outlook - we don't even have Outlook. I want to move messages from WinMail in Vista to Mail in OSX. Any ideas?
 
Thanks Randy - Aid4Mail reads WinMail but Emailchemy doesn't include it in its list. I'll try the demo of each.
 
audax said:
Thanks Randy - Aid4Mail reads WinMail but Emailchemy doesn't include it in its list. I'll try the demo of each.
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I believe that Emailchemy can do it, but that it will take a couple of extra steps. You may want to check out more of their Web site, as this is surely something that they have dealt with previously.
 
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