opening Outlook .pst file within windows mail or vista

[Wendy S Foulks]

I have a data transfer file from my old and now dead computer that includes
Microsoft Outlook mail personal folders and mail.
I am unable to open the .pst file with any existing extension or program
offered by vista. When I open with Windows mail, I only get current, newly
opened Windows Mail and new messages from last two days. Please HELP!! I
have all my work search information and my divorce e-mail files. I need
them desperately....and soon. Thanks for your help

Kind Regards,
Wendy S Foulks

 

[SamTheMan]

I have a data transfer file from my old and now dead computer that includes
Microsoft Outlook mail personal folders and mail.
I am unable to open the .pst file with any existing extension or program
offered by vista. When I open with Windows mail, I only get current, newly
opened Windows Mail and new messages from last two days. Please HELP!! I
have all my work search information and my divorce e-mail files. I need
them desperately....and soon. Thanks for your help

Kind Regards,
Wendy S Foulks

 

[Guest]

Windows Mail has trouble importing messages directly from Outlook. You
have two choices of how to do this: 1. Install Outlook, preferably version
2003 or later, on your Vista machine. Windows Mail needs to use a part
of it to be able to understand .pst files. Version 2002 will also run under
Vista, but with a few problems. 2. Transfer the messages from Outlook
to Outlook Express on your old machine. Then transfer them from
Outlook Express to Windows Mail.

<http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/email/import-dbx-files-outlook-express-windows-mail-vista-86458.html>

<http://www.vista4beginners.com/Migrate-from-Outlook-Express-to-Windows-Mail>

Bring along the .wab file if you want your old contacts. After you copy
the files to a directory on your hard drive, but before you import them
into Windows Mail, make sure the copies are read-write instead of
readonly.

 

[SamTheMan]

I have a data transfer file from my old and now dead computer that includes
Microsoft Outlook mail personal folders and mail.
I am unable to open the .pst file with any existing extension or program
offered by vista. When I open with Windows mail, I only get current, newly
opened Windows Mail and new messages from last two days. Please HELP!! I
have all my work search information and my divorce e-mail files. I need
them desperately....and soon. Thanks for your help

Kind Regards,
Wendy S Foulks

 

[webguy]

I have a data transfer file from my old and now dead computer that includes
Microsoft Outlook mail personal folders and mail.
I am unable to open the .pst file with any existing extension or program
offered by vista. When I open with Windows mail, I only get current,
newly opened Windows Mail and new messages from last two days. Please
HELP!! I have all my work search information and my divorce e-mail files.
I need them desperately....and soon. Thanks for your help

Kind Regards,
Wendy S Foulks

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

You will need to install Outlook and then you will be able to import the
messages into Windows Mail.

 

[RPC]

What do you do if you want to move your e-mail from Outlook to Windows mail?

 

[DL]

You need Outlook installed & configured with its data file on the same PC
that Mail is installed on

 

[Dave]

Windows Mail cannot import from a .pst file unless Outlook is installed on
the Vista computer.
1. Install Outlook on your new computer
Copy the .pst file to the new computer
Open the .pst file with Outlook.
In Windows Mail, File - Import - Messages - Microsoft Outlook
or- keep using Outlook, as it's probably better than WM

-OR-
2. Take the .pst file to a computer running Outlook and Outlook Express.
Import the .pst files into Outlook Express
export the messages to .dbx
take the .dbx files to the new computer
Import the .dbx files.