INSTALLING E-MAIL FOLDERS

[Guest]

I have my old e-mail folders and settings form Outlook Express backed up
using a program called Outlook backup. Now that I have updated to Vista, the
folders and settings will not transfer. The propgram has transfered my
favorites and my contacts but not folders and settings. Any ideas?

 

[Steve Cochran]

The settings are stored in a different location in the registry than in XP,
so they can't easily be incorporated into Vista with your backup.

You can import the folders and messages okay. See
www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#oe2wm

There is also a newsgroup I'm crossposting to that covers Windows Mail
(formerly OE) issues.

steve

 

[Guest]

Steve,

My problem is that the backup program saves the files as .boe files, these
will not load to Vista.

Would a work around be to install a copy of Outlook express transfer to that
copy then use Vista to back up , transfer then delete the Outlook?

 

[Steve Cochran]

You can't install OE on Vista. Windows Mail is OE renamed and the message
store is completely different. So I don't know what you can do with those
files.

steve

 

[Donald McDaniel]

You can't install OE on Vista. Windows Mail is OE renamed and the message
store is completely different. So I don't know what you can do with those
files.

steve

Personally, I don't normally use Microsoft's "Usenet client". I use the
best Usenet client in existence: Forte's Agent Newsreader (now in its 4th
iteration). It is truly a full-featured newsreader. Microsoft's
"newsreader" is just a quick-and-dirty substitute for a decent Usenet
client, and is mostly an email client.