In my case, this was a problem as I carry a lot of e-mail with me and exporting it would have taken longer than I cared to wait. There’s no option to export a range of mail or single mailbox. And-just as regrettably-you have to export all your mail. Instead, when you choose the File -> Export command, you’re offered the single option to export mail in the Outlook for Mac Data File (.olm) format.
I’ve recently switched my e-mail client from Microsoft Entourage to Outlook 2011 ( ) and expected that moving a relatively small passel of messages would be as easy with Outlook as it was with Entourage-just drag the Past Week mailbox to the desktop to turn it into an MBOX file, transfer that file to my Mac Pro, and drag it into its copy of Outlook.Īnd that would have been a solid plan had Outlook supported views or the seemingly ubiquitous MBOX format. When I returned, I wished to transfer its week’s-worth of e-mail to my desktop Mac. To stay in touch I dutifully dragged along a MacBook Pro. this past week, I took advantage of the Thanksgiving holiday to spend time with my family. Like some others scattered around the U.S.
