If you’re using IMAP, or Exchange for that matter, you can skip the rest of this article. If that’s still an option… The IMAP connection Note: Microsoft was unable to confirm the exact reasons for this issue, but drag-to-mbox still works under 10.9.5, so if you want to move to Mail, you might want to do it before upgrading from Mavericks to Yosemite. It was worth it under the circumstances, but if I’d done my homework, and left myself a bit more time, plan B would’ve been one of the methods below. Alas, since I’d only allotted time for plan A, plan B involved forking over $30 for dedicated Outlook email export software. How nice.Īfter wasting several minutes explaining to my clients how this method really did work once upon a time, I went to plan B. On the other hand, dragging single and multiple messages to the desktop to produce individual EML files-which Mail doesn’t understand-worked just fine.
What the heck? Did Outlook just rubber-band me? It did it again! Well, of all the…It worked before. Simply drag a folder to the Yosemite Desktop.
There I was, ready to impress my new IT clients with how easy Outlook 2011 makes it to create mbox folders to import into Mail.
