[X4U] From PC to Mac

[Neil Laubenthal]

What's he reading his mail with now? Take a look at the export options  
and compare them to the import options in Mail and Address Book.

Mail can usually be exported into an mbox file or something that Mail  
can import . . .as an alternative (and depending on how much mail he's  
got to transfer as well as if it's IMAP or not) . . .IMAP mail lives  
on the server so it's a simple matter to connect Mail to the IMAP  
account and slurp down a copy. If he isn't using IMAP . . . then  
getting a free gmail account, setting it up for IMAP, and copying the  
mail there thence down to Mail also works.

For addresses; Address Book will import ldif files so that's probably  
the easiest way to go.

There are a couple of commercial PC to Mac transfer programs that I'm  
vaguely aware of . . . as well as a couple of free/shareware apps on  
versiontracker and the like that will probably also provide some  
assistance.

Finally . . . the Take Control series of ebooks put out by the Tidbits  
folks (www.takecontrolbooks.com) offers a $10 pdf ebook that walks  
even novice users through all of this . . . it includes some bits  
about UI differences, etc that make the transition a little easier.  
I've not personally looked at this particular Take Control book . .  
.but have several others and the series are pretty good stuff typically.


-- 
neil


Quoting Paul Moortgat <paul.moortgat at pandora.be>:

> A friend bought an iMac because he couldn't no longer stand the viruses
> on his PC.  He will transfer his mails and addresses from PC to his
> iMac.
> What's the best method?
>
> Paul Moortgat
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