I can't read an Outlook Message with Entourage

I have a few email messages saved on my hard disk that were created
with Outlook 2003. I've copied these files into my iMac, and now
want to read them. But when Entourage opens them, no email text is
shown and it starts up a window to send / append text.

Ideas?

Reading these old messages was the primary reason I bought Office for
the Mac.

Jolly
Tue Sep 04 08:42:03 PDT 2007

On 2007-09-04 10:35:33 -0500, 5037.leos@gmail.com said:

> I have a few email messages saved on my hard disk that were created
> with Outlook 2003. I've copied these files into my iMac, and now
> want to read them. But when Entourage opens them, no email text is
> shown and it starts up a window to send / append text.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Reading these old messages was the primary reason I bought Office for
> the Mac.

You didn't mention *how* you saved the messages. What format are the files?

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5037
Tue Sep 04 09:34:46 PDT 2007

On Sep 4, 10:42 am, Jolly Roger <wbyyleb...@cbobk.pbz> wrote:
> On 2007-09-04 10:35:33 -0500, 5037.l...@gmail.com said:
>
> > I have a few email messages saved on my hard disk that were created
> > with Outlook 2003. I've copied these files into my iMac, and now
> > want to read them. But when Entourage opens them, no email text is
> > shown and it starts up a window to send / append text.
>
> > Ideas?
>
> > Reading these old messages was the primary reason I bought Office for
> > the Mac.
>
> You didn't mention *how* you saved the messages. What format are the files?
>
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It's a .msg file. I just dragged the message from my Outlook Inbox
into the folder I wanted to save the message in.

Normally, in Windows I can do this, and open the .msg just by double
clicking it. I figured I'd be able to do this.

Leo

Jolly
Tue Sep 04 09:54:17 PDT 2007

On 2007-09-04 11:34:46 -0500, 5037.leos@gmail.com said:

> On Sep 4, 10:42 am, Jolly Roger <wbyyleb...@cbobk.pbz> wrote:
>> On 2007-09-04 10:35:33 -0500, 5037.l...@gmail.com said:
>>
>>> I have a few email messages saved on my hard disk that were created
>>> with Outlook 2003. I've copied these files into my iMac, and now
>>> want to read them. But when Entourage opens them, no email text is
>>> shown and it starts up a window to send / append text.
>>
>>> Ideas?
>>
>>> Reading these old messages was the primary reason I bought Office for
>>> the Mac.
>>
>> You didn't mention *how* you saved the messages. What format are the files?
>
> It's a .msg file. I just dragged the message from my Outlook Inbox
> into the folder I wanted to save the message in.
>
> Normally, in Windows I can do this, and open the .msg just by double
> clicking it. I figured I'd be able to do this.

Why not PST files? From what I gather, .msg files are Outlook
proprietary format files.

If you use Outlook to export to PST instead, you can import those
messages into Entourage. Do you still have access to your PC by chance?

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Jolly
Tue Sep 04 09:55:35 PDT 2007

On 2007-09-04 11:54:17 -0500, Jolly Roger <wbyylebtre@cbobk.pbz> said:

> On 2007-09-04 11:34:46 -0500, 5037.leos@gmail.com said:
>
>> On Sep 4, 10:42 am, Jolly Roger <wbyyleb...@cbobk.pbz> wrote:
>>> On 2007-09-04 10:35:33 -0500, 5037.l...@gmail.com said:
>>>
>>>> I have a few email messages saved on my hard disk that were created
>>>> with Outlook 2003. I've copied these files into my iMac, and now
>>>> want to read them. But when Entourage opens them, no email text is
>>>> shown and it starts up a window to send / append text.
>>>
>>>> Ideas?
>>>
>>>> Reading these old messages was the primary reason I bought Office for
>>>> the Mac.
>>>
>>> You didn't mention *how* you saved the messages. What format are the files?
>>
>> It's a .msg file. I just dragged the message from my Outlook Inbox
>> into the folder I wanted to save the message in.
>>
>> Normally, in Windows I can do this, and open the .msg just by double
>> clicking it. I figured I'd be able to do this.
>
> Why not PST files? From what I gather, .msg files are Outlook
> proprietary format files.
>
> If you use Outlook to export to PST instead, you can import those
> messages into Entourage. Do you still have access to your PC by chance?

Microsoft has an Entourage PST tool available here:

<http://preview.tinyurl.com/587ng>

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5037
Tue Sep 04 10:05:09 PDT 2007

On Sep 4, 11:55 am, Jolly Roger <wbyyleb...@cbobk.pbz> wrote:
> On 2007-09-04 11:54:17 -0500, Jolly Roger <wbyyleb...@cbobk.pbz> said:
>
>
>
> > On 2007-09-04 11:34:46 -0500, 5037.l...@gmail.com said:
>
> >> On Sep 4, 10:42 am, Jolly Roger <wbyyleb...@cbobk.pbz> wrote:
> >>> On 2007-09-04 10:35:33 -0500, 5037.l...@gmail.com said:
>
> >>>> I have a few email messages saved on my hard disk that were created
> >>>> with Outlook 2003. I've copied these files into my iMac, and now
> >>>> want to read them. But when Entourage opens them, no email text is
> >>>> shown and it starts up a window to send / append text.
>
> >>>> Ideas?
>
> >>>> Reading these old messages was the primary reason I bought Office for
> >>>> the Mac.
>
> >>> You didn't mention *how* you saved the messages. What format are the files?
>
> >> It's a .msg file. I just dragged the message from my Outlook Inbox
> >> into the folder I wanted to save the message in.
>
> >> Normally, in Windows I can do this, and open the .msg just by double
> >> clicking it. I figured I'd be able to do this.
>
> > Why not PST files? From what I gather, .msg files are Outlook
> > proprietary format files.
>
> > If you use Outlook to export to PST instead, you can import those
> > messages into Entourage. Do you still have access to your PC by chance?
>
> Microsoft has an Entourage PST tool available here:
>
> <http://preview.tinyurl.com/587ng>
>
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> JR

OK, that PST tool could work, but I've got an entire hard drive full
of mixed doc, xl, ppt, and msg files. It would be cumbersome, to say
the least, to take those messages back into Outlook, to create a PST,
that could be imported into Entourage.

William
Tue Sep 04 10:33:45 PDT 2007

Hi!

> It would be cumbersome, to say the least, to take those messages back
> into Outlook, to create a PST, that could be imported into Entourage.

I don't think it will be as hard as it might first seem. I'd start by
running a file search for all .MSG files on the PC. Then I'd select
(highlight) all of them and drag them into a waiting Outlook mail folder on
the PC. After that, take the resulting PST over to your Mac and import it.

The longest portions of this process will be waiting for the MSG files to be
found, pulling them into Outlook and then waiting for the PST tool to
convert the messages for use with Entourage.

William

5037
Tue Sep 04 10:50:54 PDT 2007

On Sep 4, 12:33 pm, "William R. Walsh"
<newsgrou...@idontwantjunqueemail.walshcomptech.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > It would be cumbersome, to say the least, to take those messages back
> > into Outlook, to create a PST, that could be imported into Entourage.
>
> I don't think it will be as hard as it might first seem. I'd start by
> running a file search for all .MSG files on the PC. Then I'd select
> (highlight) all of them and drag them into a waiting Outlook mail folder on
> the PC. After that, take the resulting PST over to your Mac and import it.
>
> The longest portions of this process will be waiting for the MSG files to be
> found, pulling them into Outlook and then waiting for the PST tool to
> convert the messages for use with Entourage.
>
> William

William,

You're saying that Entourage can't read Outlook messages without
having them converted thru this PST converter?

Jolly
Tue Sep 04 13:25:59 PDT 2007

On 2007-09-04 12:50:54 -0500, 5037.leos@gmail.com said:

> On Sep 4, 12:33 pm, "William R. Walsh"
> <newsgrou...@idontwantjunqueemail.walshcomptech.com> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>>> It would be cumbersome, to say the least, to take those messages back
>>> into Outlook, to create a PST, that could be imported into Entourage.
>>
>> I don't think it will be as hard as it might first seem. I'd start by
>> running a file search for all .MSG files on the PC. Then I'd select
>> (highlight) all of them and drag them into a waiting Outlook mail folder on
>> the PC. After that, take the resulting PST over to your Mac and import it.
>>
>> The longest portions of this process will be waiting for the MSG files to be
>> found, pulling them into Outlook and then waiting for the PST tool to
>> convert the messages for use with Entourage.
>
> You're saying that Entourage can't read Outlook messages without
> having them converted thru this PST converter?

That's correct. So you need to convert those MSG files to PST in
Outlook, and then use the PST Importer tool to import them into
Entourage.

(BTW, you do not need a conversion tool to open Windows .doc and .ppt
files in the Mac versions of Word and PowerPoint.)

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Mickey
Wed Sep 05 07:38:44 PDT 2007

On 9/4/07 3:25 PM, in article 2007090415255975249-wbyylebtre@cbobkpbz,
"Jolly Roger" <wbyylebtre@cbobk.pbz> wrote:

> On 2007-09-04 12:50:54 -0500, 5037.leos@gmail.com said:
>
>> On Sep 4, 12:33 pm, "William R. Walsh"
>> <newsgrou...@idontwantjunqueemail.walshcomptech.com> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>>> It would be cumbersome, to say the least, to take those messages back
>>>> into Outlook, to create a PST, that could be imported into Entourage.
>>>
>>> I don't think it will be as hard as it might first seem. I'd start by
>>> running a file search for all .MSG files on the PC. Then I'd select
>>> (highlight) all of them and drag them into a waiting Outlook mail folder on
>>> the PC. After that, take the resulting PST over to your Mac and import it.
>>>
>>> The longest portions of this process will be waiting for the MSG files to be
>>> found, pulling them into Outlook and then waiting for the PST tool to
>>> convert the messages for use with Entourage.
>>
>> You're saying that Entourage can't read Outlook messages without
>> having them converted thru this PST converter?
>
> That's correct. So you need to convert those MSG files to PST in
> Outlook, and then use the PST Importer tool to import them into
> Entourage.

Note that the PST Importer only works with PST files from Outlook 2001 for
Mac. It can't import PST files from Outlook for Windows. If you want to
move e-mail from Outlook to Entourage, you need to investigate some other
options.

This page has a pretty clear tutorial for moving mail from Outlook to
Entourage.
<http://www.riches.com.au/articles/export-outlook-entourage.htm>

Outlook2Mac advertises that it can automate the same procedure. However,
some users have noted that contacts, calendar events, and tasks don't always
transfer properly.
<http://www.littlemachines.com/>



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Jolly
Wed Sep 05 08:20:14 PDT 2007

On 2007-09-05 09:38:44 -0500, Mickey Stevens <mickey.stevens@mvps.org> said:

> Note that the PST Importer only works with PST files from Outlook 2001 for
> Mac. It can't import PST files from Outlook for Windows. If you want to
> move e-mail from Outlook to Entourage, you need to investigate some other
> options.

I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the heads-up.

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