Microsoft Outlook .psp files to read on Mac

[Myles114]

I recently converted from a Vista user to a MAC user and for business purposes. I purchased Office 2007 for Mac but it did not come with Microsoft Outlook so I am stuck without being able to transfer hundreds of work emails from my Vista laptop to my Mac laptop. I can read my new emails in a default Mac program - so that is not a problem - its just reading old ones.

Does anybody know how to read .psp (microsoft outlook) files on a Mac?

Preferably without purchasing any new products.

Thanks

[crazzyyfool]

Do you mean .pst files not .psp? .psp files are the Paint Shop Pro file format. Don't you just love MS and their custom file formats instead of using the MBOX universal standard.

[neufuse Veteran]

  kraized said:

Do you mean .pst files not .psp? Do you just love MS and their custom file formats instead of using the MBOX universal standard.

PSP is a photoshop preference file... duno why that just poped into my head... I do think he ment PST, but why would they want to use a standard format on mac when windows pst files work on mac, and windows... use one file format then there is no conversion needed and since outlook is mainly on windows, they keep the windows format

[1759]

There is no direct way to read a Windows Outlook PST file on OSX, you need something like MessageSave (a program that installs as a plugin in Outlook, and converts all the Outlook folders in the PST, to mbox files).

However, if you have a lot of nested folders, it doesn't work well, and it will not recreate the nested folder structure on the OSX side.

Or, you can also try setting up an IMAP Gmail account, on both the Windows and OSX sides, and drag the Outlook folders, to the Gmail listing in Outlook, and it will preserve the folder structure on the OSX side. Downside, is that that it can be time consuming.

I could never understand though, why Microsoft couldn't release an Outlook<->Entourage tool; both are business e-mail clients, and both are fairly similar. :(

[crazzyyfool]

Try this, though not free. It's only $10.

http://www.littlemachines.com/

[tsutton]

On Vista, export the email to a suitable file format that your Mac software accepts.

Once exported, transfer it to your mac and import it.

Sorted.

[CPressland]

i've got 15000 messages on my .Mac account (thats just the inbox) and that takes about 3 minutes to download them all when I "rebuild" my inbox. So I would imagine it cant take too long for you to manually re-download your entire library.