How to Migrate from Windows Live Mail to Mac Mail Successfully
Windows Live Mail is a successor email app of Windows Vista Mail. It has several different functionality from Windows Mail. It is provided by Microsoft with Windows Essential Suites which is compatible with Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 to manage messages or other data. It supports .eml extension to save emails. We can easily find .eml files in Windows Live Mail. If you don’t know about the process of finding.eml files then follow the given method –
How to find .eml files in Windows Live Mail
Method 1 – Open Windows Live Mail and select emails, then drag all selected mails and drop at any location. After that, you can see that the dragged files will be saved in .eml format.
Method 2 – For knowing the message stored location of Windows Live Mail, follow the given steps –
- Open Windows Live Mail and go to File Menu >> Options >> Mail
- After that there will open a new Window – choose Advanced option
- Now select Maintenance Option, there will show Store Folder option click on it.
- There will show the message stored location, select & copy showed location.
- Now paste the copied location on the search address bar of your computer and click on go ->
- Now you can see the mails of Windows Live Mail is saved in .eml format.
As Windows Live Mail is popular email app for Windows OS, similarly Mac Mail is popular for Mac OS.
What is Mac Mail Email App?
Mac Mail is the default email app of Mac OS, iOS, watchOS which is provided by Apple Inc., but originally the main founder of it is NeXT as NeXTMail for NeXTSTEP OS, it ultimately developed mail after Apple’s acquirement of NeXT. Today, this email app is popular among users due the Mac OS. It is helpful to manage email data. It supports mbox extension to store mail data. By using its export or import function, anyone can easily use .mbox files into Mac Mail.
Windows Live Mail to Mac Mail converter, from Wholeclear Software, is a useful tool that is able to perform the conversion of EML data to EMLX data, while maintaining the data structure during the conversion process.The app can convert all the messages stored in Windows Live Mail to Apple Mail. It is a great software to help users who want to switch from a Windows based operating system to a Mac based operating system, by converting Windows Live Mail to Mac Mail files.