Use it to navigate to the folder you created for your mbox files and click Choose. Select Files in mbox format and click Continue. A window appears that asks you to choose a source to import data from. When you’re finished, launch Mail and choose File > Import Mailboxes. Repeat this process for all the mailboxes that you wish to import and then place the mbox files into a single folder. Doing this creates an mbox file (a file format that Mail can import). The kind of tedious way is to launch Outlook, select a mailbox that you’d like to move to Mail, and drag it to the desktop. You can do this the kind-of-tedious-but-free way, or pay for a solution. Do you know of an alternative process I can use to move my Mac Outlook database into Apple Mail?
The process you described for Windows doesn’t work for Mac Outlook email files. I’ve been a Microsoft Office for Mac user for a long time but I keep reading about the terrific things that Apple Mail can do, and I’d therefore really like to export my Outlook data and import it into Mail. In the message list, click the message from which you want to create a rule. Tip: If you've already created a folder, skip to step 2. In the August 2014 issue of Macworld you describe a process for moving a Windows Outlook database into a Mac and then into Apple Mail. To create a folder to hold the email messages sent by the rule, select the root mailbox, on the Organize tab, click New Folder, type the name of the folder, and press Enter. Reader Dan Hawes is considering a move to Mail.
