Store Root in Windows Mail/Live Mail

[turbojimmy]

Hello,

I got a new laptop yesterday with the Vista OS. I was disappointed to find
that Outlook Express was gone. While not a supported configuration, I had
used Regedit to point the Outlook Express 'store root' on multiple machines
to a mapped network drive. This way all the machines would be looking at the
same set of folders and downloaded e-mails. Also, when messages downloaded
they got stored on the central drive and not to the PC I happened to be using.

Now, with Windows Mail the storage configuration is totally different.
There is still a Store Root but I can't map it to the XP machine's Outlook
Express folders. If I were to upgrade the XP machine to Windows Live Mail,
could I map the Vista machine's Windows Mail to that Store Root? Anyone try
this?

Thanks,
Jim

 

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

Hello,

I got a new laptop yesterday with the Vista OS. I was disappointed to
find
that Outlook Express was gone. While not a supported configuration, I had
used Regedit to point the Outlook Express 'store root' on multiple
machines
to a mapped network drive. This way all the machines would be looking at
the
same set of folders and downloaded e-mails. Also, when messages
downloaded
they got stored on the central drive and not to the PC I happened to be
using.

Now, with Windows Mail the storage configuration is totally different.
There is still a Store Root but I can't map it to the XP machine's Outlook
Express folders. If I were to upgrade the XP machine to Windows Live
Mail,
could I map the Vista machine's Windows Mail to that Store Root? Anyone
try
this?

Windows Mail stores each message in its own EML file instead of having a DBX
file for each folder. Putting this Store Folder on a network drive is not a
sage thing to do.