I have a large amount of email stored in "Mail" on OS X (Panther).  I
need this mail, and its attachments, to be opened in Outlook 2003 on
Windows XP.

Please provide for me the exact ordered steps I should follow,
detailing any 3rd party tools I may need to complete these steps (and
where to get these).

For your information, I intended to transfer any files needed between
these two machines using my Windows formatted iPod as needed.

The test of your method will be the intact conversion of my email,
sitting in a folder in Outlook 2003. :)

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Request for Question Clarification by livioflores-ga on 27 Jan 2004 19:42 PST

Which is the E-mail software installed on your Mac, and also can you
connect both computers or burn a CD in your Mac to transfer files from
the Mac to the WinXP computer?

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Request for Question Clarification by livioflores-ga on 27 Jan 2004 19:47 PST

One more question:
Do you know how to transfer files between Mac and PC using your iPod device?

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Clarification of Question by kalgari-ga on 28 Jan 2004 01:39 PST

In reference to your questions livioflores,
the OS X email client I use is named Mail (some refer to it as
Mail.app to try and clarify).

Yes, the Mac has a CD writer, no I can not connect the two machines physically.

I am familiar with moving files between the two machines using my iPod
and have done so on many occasions.

Hi!!

After research I found a software that can do the trick.

The program is Emailchemy, it is a shareware software.
Its homepage is:
http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/index.html

The "Emailchemy - User Manual" page is:
http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/doc/index.html

I suggest you to read carefully the entire document, but the following
paragraphs are the most related to your question:
"Introduction:
Emailchemy is a utility that helps you regain ownership of your email.
Emailchemy reads email from the proprietary formats of the most
popular (and many of yesterday's forgotten) email applications and
converts it to a standard, portable format that any application can
use.
The primary idea behind Emailchemy was to convert all the various
proprietary email formats to The One True E-mail Format - RFC-822.
This is the official Internet/ARPAnet standard for email that has been
around since 1973. However, Emailchemy was built with a "pluggable"
architecture that allows it to easily convert to other formats as
well.
Things you can do with Emailchemy:
ˇConvert email to standard formats 
ˇMove your email between Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X, and UNIX/Linux systems. 
ˇRepair or clean mailbox files 
ˇRemove proprietary extensions from mailbox files 
ˇCondense separate email files and archives 
ˇSplit large email files into individual email files 
ˇPrepare email for entry into a database 
ˇMake older email Year 2000 compliant "
http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/doc/index.html#intro

"Supported Email Formats
Emailchemy currently can read the email files and mailboxes from:
Claris Emailer 1.x for Macintosh 
Claris Emailer 2.x for Macintosh 
Entourage 
Eudora 
Mac OS X Mail 
Mozilla 
Mulberry 
Neoplanet 
Netscape 
Opera 4, 5, 6 & 7 
Outlook Express 4 and 5 for Macintosh 
Outlook Express 4, 5 & 6 for Windows 
Outlook Express 5 for UNIX/Solaris 
PowerTalk/AOCE for Macintosh 
QuickMail Pro for Macintosh 
QuickMail Pro for Windows 
Yahoo! Mail 
any UNIX-style (RFC-822) mailbox 

Emailchemy currently can rewrite any of the above formats into:
RFC-822 mailboxes (the only official Internet standard, also known as
"mbox" or "UNIX-style")
Folders of individual RFC-822 email files (.txt or .eml files) 
Comma-separated value files (.csv files) 
Maildir (qmail format) 
Maildir++ (Courier IMAP format) 
Variations of the RFC-822 mailboxes that are directly usable by: 
Mac OS X Mail (aka "Mail.app") 
Eudora 
Mozilla (including Netscape and Thunderbird)"
http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/doc/index.html#formats

Using Emailchemy:
http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/doc/index.html#using

Importing your converted mail into Outlook:
http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/doc/index.html#importingoutlook


Note that if you are moving your email to a computer that runs
different operating system (i.e. switching from Windows to Macintosh),
we recommend that you perform the conversion on the target computer
(the one you are moving the email to). Otherwise, you'll have to
adjust the settings for newline sequence in the Preferences dialog to
match the target operating system.
Because this notice I suggest you to try first with the trial version
before purchase in order to know what is the version that you need,
Mac or Windows.
Read also the Trialware Notice:
http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/doc/index.html#trialware


I hope this helps you. 
Due to the possibility that this solution do not work with you, I ask
you for not consider this thread ended until you can complete this
task. If you need further assistance please use the clarification
feature and I will be gladly to respond your request as soon as
possible.

Best regards.
livoflores-ga

The answer was great, but unfortunately the tool suggested in this
advice failed me.
This is a flaw on the part of a software manufacturer - the advice was
of great quality.

I don't think you can, apart from meticulously exporting each
individual message from Mail, burning them onto a CD, and then putting
them in Outlook 2003.

If you have access to a IMAP server, the procedure would be pretty
simple. Just copy the email (drag the folders) to the IMAP server,
then use Outlook 2003 to retrieve the mail from the IMAP server. No
iPod necessary.

Alternately, I believe you can run an imap server locally on your OS/X
machine, and have Mail.app store it's email on your local imap server.
Then you just need to have your windows machine use your OS/X machine
as an imap server, and copy the email over that way.

http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Workbench/eart.index.html has some
detailed instructions on how to set up IMAP.

Although livioflores you thoroughly documented the product to
accomplish my goal - at the end of the day, the product could not live
up to its claims.  The data it produced was mainly garbled, and the
attachments could not be recovered.

Still, let me make it clear I do not consider that to be your fault,
you searched and found a product that said it could do exactly what I
wanted.

As it happened, WY's comment was the winner, running an IMAP server on
the Mac meant I could log in with Outlook and retrieve all my mails. 
Although I had many megs of mails to move, on broadband it was more
than fast enough.

So thank you very much for your time, both GA and Livioflores.
Kindest regards.