Transferring Outlook-for-mac Email To Apple's Mail Macworld

Sometimes I get these email messages (typically acknowledgment emails from e-tailers or billing notices) which either look completely blank or show up as gobbledygook in Mail.app's viewer. The message size tells me that there's text there, and viewing the raw source of the message usually reveals the text.

1. Transferring Outlook-for-mac Email To Apples Mail Macworld

Transferring Outlook-for-mac Email To Apples Mail Macworld

One example is the 'we have received your donation' acknowledgment from Doctors Without Borders, which looks completely blank in Mail.app, even though the message size is 2.9KB. It turns out that these messages are usually of 'Content-Type: multipart/related' or 'multipart/alternative'. The idea is that the same content will be sent out in multiple versions (such as text/plain and text/html) so that your email client can display the preferred format. Unfortunately, I think many of the sites that send out such messages do not have the software configured properly, so that the plain text alternative, which is usually listed as the first alternative, is either blank or corrupted. You can view the content of these messages by selecting View - Message - Next Alternative. This will cycle through the other versions of the message, and (usually) these at least one of the other versions will be readable.

Transferring Outlook-for-Mac email to Apple's Mail| Macworld Macworld.com Reader Dan Hawes is considering a move to Mail. He writes: In the August 2014 issue of Macworld you describe a process for moving a Windows Outlook database into a Mac and then into Apple Mail. I've used both for years - Mail for email and Outlook for scheduling (my company is on Exchange). At one point I tried moving everything to Outlook, but I didn't like it as an email client and I switched back. If Apple or some third party offered a fully-featured, Exchange-compatible calendar app for OS X, I'd use it.