E-Mail Conversion

[Travis King]

I've been using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Trial on Windows Vista,
but I am now going to be going back to XP more often. (Although I'm not
getting rid of Vista nor the Office on there yet.) On XP, I have
Microsoft Office XP Professional. My problem is, I'm wanting to import
all of my e-mails I had in Outlook 2007 into Outlook 2002, but it won't
import them. Also, if I try to open an e-mail, I get a message saying
that the e-mail requires Office 2003 or newer to open them. How can I
get the message converted back into something Outlook 2002 will read?
Actually, in the long run, I'm trying to get my e-mails into Mozilla
Thunderbird, but I must get them into Outlook first for Thunderbird to
import them because it won't accept the e-mails directly. Any help
appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Travis King]

I think I figured it out. I had to go back onto Vista and install
Thunderbird, then import the Outlook messages into Thunderbird on Vista.
I was then able to find the 'profiles' folder for thunderbird and copy
them onto my XP Thunderbird installation, so I now have them on
Thunderbird on XP, and I also learned a few things about exporting with
Thunderbird, which seems somewhat complicated, but at least a way
exists. Thanks...

 

[Brian Tillman]

I think I figured it out. I had to go back onto Vista and install
Thunderbird, then import the Outlook messages into Thunderbird on
Vista.

Why not use Outlook 2002? The process to make the data stpre compatible is
fairly straightforward. This article is geared for Outlook 2003, but it
should work with Outlook 2007 as well:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/downgradefromoutlook2003.htm

 

[Travis King]

Why not use Outlook 2002? The process to make the data stpre compatible
is fairly straightforward. This article is geared for Outlook 2003, but
it should work with Outlook 2007 as well:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/downgradefromoutlook2003.htm

....because Outlook 2002 does not have an automatic junk mail filter
(2003 and 2007 do) and I prefer having the preview pane in vertical view
which was not yet present or an option in Outlook 2002.