subject: How To Convert Lotus To Entourage? [print this page] Email communication has become an integral part of different users now. Some users do it to manage their personal information and some users do it to manage their business information. Users perform this email communication with the help of email clients and a variety of email clients are available. Each email client offers its own functionality and Entourage is one of the popular email clients, which was developed by Microsoft for Mac operating systems. It stores its email database in MBOX file format and MBOX is popularly used for storing messages on hard drive. Some other email clients like Apple Mail, Microsoft Outlook 2011, Mozilla Thunderbird, QUALCOMM Eudora, Any Text Editor, etc also use MBOX file format for storing email database.
In MBOX file format, all messages of every mailbox get stored as single file, long file and text file and the beginning of new message gets identified by From or From_. The empty line _ with From identifies the ending of previous message. In situations, when the sender includes the combination of from and empty line _ in the body then, MBOX email program verifies the text of each message and inserts > before from to indicate the computer program that the word is simply a part of message.
IBM Lotus Notes is also a popular email client. It stores its email database as NSF file and like other email clients, it also offer its unique functionalities. The reasons to convert Lotus Notes NSF to Entourage can be many. It can be done due to change in email environment, it can be done due to some business purpose, it can be done to experience the email facilities of entourage, etc. If a user wishes to convert Lotus to Entourage then, he has to use a third party tool. Many ordinary tools to convert Lotus to Entourage are available but, only a better tool provides efficient results.
Better Tool to convert Lotus to Entourage
The users can use Lotus to Entourage Converter to convert IBM Lotus Notes email folders such as inbox, outbox, sent items, deleted item etc into Microsoft Entourage format (MBOX). This NSF to MBOX converter does not make changes in the database NSF files and holds intact emails properties, attachments, Metadata details etc. It creates individual file for each NSF folder i.e. individual MBOX file for inbox folder, individual MBOX file for sent items folder, etc.
