Importing Communicator 7.1 messages to Outlook Express

[Scott]

I'm having problems importing messages from Communicator
7.1 to Outlook Express. I may have contributed to the
problem when I imported messages from Netscape 6.0 to
Netscape 7.1 because I put files into a directory rather
than importing them (I didn't know that you had to import
them because 6.0 and 7.1 were different). In any case,
the directory from which I am importing the messages has
files named for each Communicator folder with 3 file
types. In other words, I have a folder in Communicator
called personal and the directory has 3 files for that
directory - one has no extension, one is peronal.snm and
one is personal.msf. When I imported the messages to
Outlook Express, I got messages that existed back when I
imported the messages from Communicator 6.0 to 7.1. I
tried deleting (moving the files out of the directory)
that had the .snm extension, thinking that these were the
6.0 files. When I tried to import the messages again,
Outlook said it was no messages were found. The only
options I have for importing Netscape messages are
Netscape Communicator and Netscape Mail (v2 or v3). Can
anybody help?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

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post but it works for some people)

Also a good source of Outlook Express info can be found here:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/


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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Scott asked:

| I'm having problems importing messages from Communicator
| 7.1 to Outlook Express. I may have contributed to the
| problem when I imported messages from Netscape 6.0 to
| Netscape 7.1 because I put files into a directory rather
| than importing them (I didn't know that you had to import
| them because 6.0 and 7.1 were different). In any case,
| the directory from which I am importing the messages has
| files named for each Communicator folder with 3 file
| types. In other words, I have a folder in Communicator
| called personal and the directory has 3 files for that
| directory - one has no extension, one is peronal.snm and
| one is personal.msf. When I imported the messages to
| Outlook Express, I got messages that existed back when I
| imported the messages from Communicator 6.0 to 7.1. I
| tried deleting (moving the files out of the directory)
| that had the .snm extension, thinking that these were the
| 6.0 files. When I tried to import the messages again,
| Outlook said it was no messages were found. The only
| options I have for importing Netscape messages are
| Netscape Communicator and Netscape Mail (v2 or v3). Can
| anybody help?

 

[Rifleman]

I'm having problems importing messages from Communicator
7.1 to Outlook Express.

You can't import to OE from Netscape 6 or 7 directly - you have to use
either Netscape 4.x or Eudora.