Jeff Gaines wrote:

If I decide to keep Outlook then I will need to get several hundred
emails into it somehow from a variety of mailing lists. Unfortunately
it still doesn't seem to use the Unix mailbox format which was an
accepted standard long before MSFT came on the (Internet) scene.

The process to move mbox data to Outlook is roughly the same as what you
used for the contacts: use Outlook Express an a intermediary tool. The
article I'm about to cite is for Mozilla, but if TheBat uses mbox format, it
shoujld apply there as well:
http://sillydog.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2062
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]