Moving old Outlook Express messages to Windows Mail

[monopoly]

I am trying to move the entire contents of my Outlook Express mail messages
from an old Windows 95 system to Windows Mail on my new Windows Vista system.

The files on the old computer are all .dbx files.

Does anyone know how I can export the files? Do they have to be done all in
one go, or can they be exported folder by folder?

If it's impossible to get the folders added to Windows Mail, I would be
happy if I could simply transfer the individual e-mail messages to the new
Vista computer in any readable format, just as text files or something, so at
least I could use them as reference. If there's a way of selecting the
messages individually and transferring them in large batches to a floppy
drive, I could do it in ten or twenty transfer operations.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[John Inzer]

I am trying to move the entire contents of my Outlook Express mail
messages from an old Windows 95 system to Windows Mail on my new
Windows Vista system.

The files on the old computer are all .dbx files.

Does anyone know how I can export the files? Do they have to be done
all in one go, or can they be exported folder by folder?

If it's impossible to get the folders added to Windows Mail, I would
be happy if I could simply transfer the individual e-mail messages to
the new Vista computer in any readable format, just as text files or
something, so at least I could use them as reference. If there's a
way of selecting the messages individually and transferring them in
large batches to a floppy drive, I could do it in ten or twenty
transfer operations.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Try these links:

Importing from Outlook Express
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#oe2wm

Windows Vista -
Import messages into Windows
Mail from Outlook Express
http://tinyurl.com/2kkcmm
or
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/53e5df86-5ffb-43cf-a0c8-164e3fe7994f1033.mspx

Import messages to Windows
Mail from other e-mail programs
http://tinyurl.com/wzewk
or...
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/26079ffc-a56f-46aa-b1e8-fcfc9f60be4b1033.mspx

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John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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