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On my italian blog one of the post which, over the time, is receiving more hits via search engines is the one about how to migrate your e-mails Microsoft Outlook to Mail.app (alias the default one included in the Mac OS X package).

Generally speaking I am seeing many “switchers” tryng the Outlook –> Entourage transition, probably because they believe the look and feel of the application will be the same. Unfortunately - for them - that isn’t the case. Also, the Entourage in Office:mac 20004 edition has proven to be one of the most problematic and crashing piece of software I had the chance to run in my first generation MacBook.

So, how to behave when you’re uncomfortable with Entourage and want to move to some other e-mail client?

Banally the answer comes from this tip from MacOSXhints.

Click on the Folder list in the left-hand pane and drop it onto your desktop; this will export the folder in the popular mbox format.

Real simple and indeed really “apple style” in the use of the drag & drop paradigm, isnt’ that so ?

{All of this post because if you try the export function in Entourage you will end up with a “closed source” and “proprietary” file cointaining your e-mails.}