Only Ork said:
I'm convinced to abandon Microsoft Outlook as my e-mail client and
return to Outlook Express. That decision is now weeks old, yet I
still haven't done it !
Could you give your reasons? I'm curious.
...Because I can't get any confidence about translating my archives
from Outlook into O.E. I'm worried that the folder/file names use
different extensions (as I think they do) in one program versus the
other.
The folder names and extensions have nothing to do with it. Outlook Express
can be used to import folders in the Outlook's delivery location. If you
have multiple PSTs in Outlook and you wish to import into Outlook Express,
you can open in Outlook the PST you wish to import into OE, make it the
delivery location, and then use OE's File>Import>Messages wizard, selecting
"Microsoft Outlook" as the source. The folders will import into OE with the
same names. If you already have a folder in OE with the Outlook folder
name, the messages in the folder will be merged into the OE folder (possibly
causing duplicates).
If yuo proceed through all your PSTs that way, selecting each in turn as the
delivery location in Outlook, you'll eventually import everything into OE.
You can even import your Calendar, Tasks, Notes, and so on into OE, but
they'll all appear as mail messages, since OE doesn't have any concept of
calendaring or task management.
If you want to establish multiple message stores for OE, with each archive
in Outlook beling placed in a separate OE message store, you can do that,
too, by using the Tools>Options>Maintenance>Store Folder button. Just be
careful or you could damage an existing message store.
