Opera users account for 0.4% of the hits to this site, so someone may want to know how to do this.

Importing email from Opera’s mail client is easy. Opera email files have the *.mbs extension, but are actually in the standard unix mbox format. So to import them, this is all you need to do:

1. Select Import Mailboxes from the File menu.
2. Select “other” and hit “Continue”.
3. Navigate to “~/Library/Preferences/Opera Preferences/Mail/” (you may need to go one step further, into the “store” directory. I had to for the test IMAP account I set up).
4. When you see your *.mbs files, click “Choose”.
5. All the emails will appear in Mail in a folder called “Import” in the Mailbox list.
6. Drag and drop them where you want them.

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