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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / Mail / May 2008Export *to* Outlook Express *from* Windows Mail?
'nough is 'nough. We've had it and are going back to XP. Sad being this frustrated and disappointed. I've been using Windows Mail during these last two painful weeks. Is there a way to export email now accumulated in Windows Mail, over to Outlook Express? I'd *really* prefer not to use Outlook, but if there is no way to do the above, can they be exported to Outlook 2003? Thank you for any advice. Going from WM to OE is simple. WM stores all email messages in .EML format which is native to OE. Drag the messages into OE folders and drop them. Hal  SignatureHal Hostetler, CPBE -- hhh@kvoa.com Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!" KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4 Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com > 'nough is 'nough. We've had it and are going back to XP. Sad being this > frustrated and disappointed. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Thank you for any advice. Thank you for your time, Hal. > Going from WM to OE is simple. WM stores all email messages in .EML format > which is native to OE. Drag the messages into OE folders and drop them. > > Hal Yikes. I just took a look and Windows Mail creates a directory full of all the .DBX mailboxes. Where might the .EML files be? Do you have to export messages to get them? > Going from WM to OE is simple. WM stores all email messages in .EML format > which is native to OE. Drag the messages into OE folders and drop them. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > > > Thank you for any advice. False alarm. I was looking at an older Outlook Express directory. Where does Windows Mail store it's messages? I did do an Export > Microsoft Windows Mail just in case. But I have no idea where the exported messages went. Is there a way of finding out where WM exports to? Thank you. > Yikes. I just took a look and Windows Mail creates a directory full of all > the .DBX mailboxes. Where might the .EML files be? Do you have to export [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > > > Hal I wonder if this thread qualifies as a soliloquy. I just found all the WM messages in: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail\Local Folders\ Shoulda known. I'll back up those EML files, but I also found the WM export... it's a large file named WindowsMail.MSMessageStore . Does anyone know of a reliable app that could convert this into OE messages? (I'm just looking for plans B, C and D... I'm not confident after the last few weeks.) > False alarm. I was looking at an older Outlook Express directory. > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > > > > > Hal I'm afraid I'm confused... OE6 stores email in dbx files. Windows Mail are eml. Any way of getting Windows Mail email over so that they appear in OE 'folders' and are searchable? > I'm afraid I'm confused... OE6 stores email in dbx files. Windows Mail are > eml. > > Any way of getting Windows Mail email over so that they appear in OE > 'folders' and are searchable? Windows Mail's EML files can be dragged from Windows Explorer into a folder in an open OE's Folder List. SignatureFrank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM I don't answer email. Thank you, Frank. I wouldn't have thought it could be that simple. Dave > > I'm afraid I'm confused... OE6 stores email in dbx files. Windows Mail are > > eml. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Windows Mail's EML files can be dragged from Windows Explorer into a folder > in an open OE's Folder List. |
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