Import Mail Into Entourage

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I have a lot of mail in Thunderbird and need to import it into Entourage. But I can't seem to do it.

I have found an extension which will export Thunderbird E-mails into a format Entourage will understand, but with over 4,000 e-mails I don't want to do this one by one.

Does anyone know of a way in which I can do this?
 
Take another approach. See if your ISP offers IMAP other than Pop. Change your settings to IMAP, log in and dump everything to the server, logout, fire up Entourage then log in to your ISP. If you leave it at POP3, everything will be downloaded. If you leave it at IMAP, then it will live on the server.

If your ISP doesn't support it, let me know. I can create an account on mine for you for a few days to move things around. Be glad to help.
 
God that will take forever with 4000 emails. Can Mail.app import thunderbird? Or Eudora? Maybe import to one of those first them import to Entourage. If it messes up, it isn't a big deal, just delete the import your current files should be untouched.

BTW are you going to be using an Exchange server with Entourage? If not why do you want to change?
 
Well. It is a long and boring story, but in short I am having issues with the 3 E-Mail clients I have used on my Mac.

MAIL
I initially used Mail, but I really don't like the way in which it handles attachments. Plus, I was initially on a dial-up modem and any attachment over about 100 kb would fail to send. At least that was the error message I got. The e-mails went through, but Mail would always give me a failure to send message. So I had to BCC myself on everything to make sure I got it.

Once I switched to broadband this problem stopped, but I still didn't like the way it handled attachments.

Entourage
When I bought Office I thought I would try out Entourage. I really like the way this app works and was very happy until the DB that powers it broke. So for a couple of days I was stranded and had to return to Mail as it was the only e-mail client I had which still worked. When I opened it up there were hundreds of e-mails that Entourage had not downloaded from my server.

This really freaked me out so I then tried Thunderbird.

Thunderbird
This is a software I like, but it seems very buggy. When replying to e-mails if I misspell a word it will move the cursor into the reply e-mail and I find myself typing in the middle of it.

So I decided to switch back to Entourage, but I have just found some more e-mails that have arrived in the last 24 hours that it did not download. Such as the one telling me you had posted in this thread.

So I think I will just have to put up with the way in which Mail handles attachments and hope that Mac changes it in a future release.

Thanks for you time, support and offers of help.
 
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