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Title: Outlook on a Mac
Post by: jfwilson on August 23, 2008, 08:12:31 AM
Anyone used Outlook on a Mac?  Is it available?  Are there problems with it?

How about moving a PC's Outlook e-mail to a Mac?  Is this possible?  Can the Mac "read" the PC's .pst files?

John
Title: Re: Outlook on a Mac
Post by: Dan Millar on August 24, 2008, 04:20:08 PM
Outlook on a Mac is not available, but you can import your Outlook info into either Entourage (the mac-equivalent of outlook, available as part of Office for Mac) or Apple's native Mail program, and yes, you can also deal with .pst files...

For lots of info, see the folliwing URL at MacWindows:

http://www.entourage.mvps.org/cross_platform/win_mac.html

Dan
Title: Re: Outlook on a Mac
Post by: z-mac on August 24, 2008, 07:10:49 PM
You could also run Virtual Box and install Windows and Outlook.
http://www.virtualbox.org/
Title: Re: Outlook on a Mac
Post by: ben schmidt on August 26, 2008, 07:19:32 PM
Quote from: Dan Millar on August 24, 2008, 04:20:08 PM
Outlook on a Mac is not available, but you can import your Outlook info into either Entourage (the mac-equivalent of outlook, available as part of Office for Mac) or Apple's native Mail program, and yes, you can also deal with .pst files...

Many mac users would indeed rejoice were Entourage  'the mac-equivalent of Outlook'! Astoundingly, MS Entourage can't read MS Outlook .pst files. [Ref: www.entourage.mvps.org/import_export/pst.html (http://www.entourage.mvps.org/import_export/pst.html)] 

Fortunately, as mentioned, there are workarounds -- many are variations on using IMAP and a 3rd-party IMAP server like gmail's, to convert the .pst files. While I've seen positive references to the $10 Little Machines' Outlook2Mac (http://www.littlemachines.com/) PC utility, I haven't yet given it a try.

...b