Transferring email from Outlook Express to Outlook for Mac 2011

Most email clients have import and export functionality, but for some reason you cannot export email from Outlook Express. You can however import mail into other programs on the same computer and thus in a way export email from Outlook Express. After that, you can export the emails to a hard drive and import it to your Mac. I used the free Thunderbird client by Mozilla, but Outlook (full version) and other will probably accomplish the same. Here are the steps:

1. Install Thunderbird on the PC
2. Import email to Thunderbird from Outlook Express
3. Check where the actual emails are stored by right clicking on the email folder and clicking on Properties
4. Copy the whole folder with the emails to an external HDD
5. Connect the HDD to the Mac and import the emails to the Mac native Mail-program via File->Import mailboxes->Thunderbird and browsing to the folder on the external HDD.
6. After importing to Mail, open Outlook and import to it from the Mail-program

That’s it. Importing to Mail before Outlook is a required step since Outlook for Mac does not have the capability to import items from Thunderbird.