I’ve used Microsoft’s Entourage as my primary email program for years, but now that I have Lion, I’d like to use Apple Mail. How do I import my Entourage address book?
Apple’s Mail client includes the ability to import Entourage email, but not the contacts. To move your email, open Mail and click File > Import Mailboxes. From the pop-up window, select Microsoft Entourage as the email client, and then continue through the wizard to import your Entourage mailboxes.
Importing contacts is not as easy as importing mailboxes.
To import your Contacts, we’ll use the Sync Services in Entourage. Navigate to Entourage > Preferences, and click the Sync Services option on the left side of the dialog. Next, check the boxes for “Synchronize contacts with Address Book.” This will cause Entourage to transfer your contacts over to Mac OS X’s Address Book. Optionally, you can drag and drop the contacts from Entourage onto Address Book’s icon in the Dock.
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nephew
July 07, 2012 at 4:39am
When I have imported mailboxes from Entourage to Apple mail the first mails in every mailbox have the same date as the transfer(=today) while older ones keep the date they were created. I use Lion.
Any idea what went wrong?
kenstee
October 31, 2011 at 4:16pm
HOWEVER...you must do this BEFORE you upgrade to 10.7.
If you are already at 10.7+ your system will not recognize Entourage as Entourage is a PPC-only app NOT Universal. As such, the import can't be done.
llee
January 14, 2012 at 7:10pm
Entourage 2008 is compatible with Intel Macs, however. Earlier versions indeed require the Rosetta framework, which isn't available in Lion.
jonorees
October 31, 2011 at 1:21pm
I always used entourage and then upgraded to Office 2011 when it came out.
However with a couple of IMAP & exchange accounts this is now resembling outlook on windows '98 in terms of speed which is pretty poor seeing as both my Macs are this years revisions.
Moving over to Mail, certainly has been running faster...
