backing up saved email for transfer to vista

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I have about 215 messages in my outlook express that I'd like to be able
to have if/when I transfer to Vista. In the past, when I've reloaded an XP
system I merely backed up the outlook express .dbx files, then when the new
XP install was up and working, I'd put the backed up files back in place in
the same folder they resided in before, so Outlook express would see them,
and I had my saved email from the old system, as well as new mail.
Since Vista users a whole different program now called windows mail, is
there any way that I'll be able to transfer this archived mail I have in to
Vista's mail program or am I stuck viewing my saved email in windows XP?
Thanks.
 
p2pdude said:
Since Vista users a whole different program now called windows mail, is
there any way that I'll be able to transfer this archived mail I have in
to
Vista's mail program or am I stuck viewing my saved email in windows XP?
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This is a question that I'm very much interested in too, especially since I
have a lot more than a couple hundred messages archived. One would like to
think that WinMail will take care of the changeover but still it'd be nice
to have confirmation that it does beforehand.
 
Most have reported that the import procedure for OE works also in WinMail.

So copy all the dbx files for each Identity and then put them in a
subdirectory on the hard drive of the Vista machine. Make sure the files
are not read only, as it won't work otherwise. Also make sure folders.dbx
is in the directory or it won't work either. Then use File | Import |
Messages and choose OE6 format and choose to import from a directory and
point to that directory and it should work. See also
www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

If it doesn't then the recourse is to use my dbx extract programs to get the
eml files and those you can easily just drag into WinMail folders.

If you are updating then some say the File and settings transfer wizard also
works, but regardless I'd make a backup of any important data first.

steve
 
Excuse the top-posting, everyone, but this is the best way to ask this
question.

With a fully updated WinXP active, I've inserted the Vista disk into the
drive. Things happen. Things are installed. Presumably things are
uninstalled.

When this process is completed, will I still be able to access all my
XP-archived messages and other OE settings from WinMail? Or is there some
other procedure that I must initiate?
 
I have not tried the procedure so I don't know how well the upgrade goes.
Check other posts in the vista.mail NG I'm xposting to.

Certainly backup the messages and settings first, but what I've been told is
that the File and settings transfer wizard works okay. Also using iaf
files has been reported to work.

steve
 
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