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Steve Cochran
For OE see here: www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx
For Outlook, you have to have it installed on the Vista machine to import
from it.
steve
For Outlook, you have to have it installed on the Vista machine to import
from it.
steve
acensor said:Unless I'm mistaken, many directions you'll find on the web for moving
Outlook mail from an old computer to a new computer with Vista will only
work for moving email, contacts, etc from an old copy of Outlook on the
old machine to a copy of Outlook installed on the new machine. They
assume you will install and continue to use Outlook on the new computer.
They would not work for moving email, contacts, etc, from Outlook into
Windows Mail (the built in free, and very nice IMO, email program in
Vista that replaces free Outlook Express that's built in on XP.)
Windows Mail will very nicely import mail and contacts , etc, from
Outlook EXPRESS.
But, Vista will not directly import from Outlook or even a raw outlook
PST file (where Outlook keeps everything)..
This is probably more-or-less intentional as it's likely that in
Microsoft's view going from the paid-for-Outlook (which is part of
Office) to the free Windows Mail would be a downgrade.
So what you have to do is go into the working, running, copy of the
older computer's Outlook and use its export function to export mail,
then contacts, into a format that Windows Mail CAN recognize and import
from.
Individual messages from Outlook (.msg) cannot be dragged and dropped
into WIndows Mail (or even Outlook Express on XP for that matter)
Whether you have your Outlook with it's data on the new computer or on
the old computer you'll have to use Outlook's export function (under
File) to separately export the old email and then the contacts to Comma
Separated Value (.CSV) format, and then tell Windows Mail to Import from
those files.
It's a bit covoluted but I have, IIRR, sucessfully done that at least
on one occassion.
As far as I remember there's no way to export the email account setting
out of Outlook to any form that Windows Mail can import, so you'll have
to set up the email accounts or accounts manually in Windows Mail.
Patrick Keenan said:acensor said:Unless I'm mistaken, many directions you'll find on the web for moving
Outlook mail from an old computer to a new computer with Vista will only
work for moving email, contacts, etc from an old copy of Outlook on the
old machine to a copy of Outlook installed on the new machine. They
assume you will install and continue to use Outlook on the new computer.
They would not work for moving email, contacts, etc, from Outlook into
Windows Mail (the built in free, and very nice IMO, email program in
Vista that replaces free Outlook Express that's built in on XP.)
Windows Mail will very nicely import mail and contacts , etc, from
Outlook EXPRESS.
As long as it has access to the files.
But, Vista will not directly import from Outlook or even a raw outlook
PST file (where Outlook keeps everything)..
If you have Outlook actually installed, yes, it will. You can install and
then remove it; a trial version will be sufficient, or one you haven't
activated yet.
You probably don't even need to actually ever run Outlook after doing the
Office install; you can install, do the import, then uninstall.
This is demonstrated on some other mail systems, such a the mail server
software Mailtraq. In order to import a PST file, you have to install -
but you don't have to run - Office.
This is probably more-or-less intentional as it's likely that in
Microsoft's view going from the paid-for-Outlook (which is part of
Office) to the free Windows Mail would be a downgrade.
Not really, since OE could always import from Outlook, and that is exactly
the downgrade you are referring to.
Outlook also used OE's POP/SMTP engines. OE was actually necessary.
So what you have to do is go into the working, running, copy of the
older computer's Outlook and use its export function to export mail,
then contacts, into a format that Windows Mail CAN recognize and import
from.Individual messages from Outlook (.msg) cannot be dragged and dropped
into WIndows Mail (or even Outlook Express on XP for that matter)
Whether you have your Outlook with it's data on the new computer or on
the old computer you'll have to use Outlook's export function (under
File) to separately export the old email and then the contacts to Comma
Separated Value (.CSV) format, and then tell Windows Mail to Import from
those files.
Or. just import to Outlook Express, then copy the entire store folder to the
Vista system.
It's a bit covoluted but I have, IIRR, sucessfully done that at least
on one occassion.
As far as I remember there's no way to export the email account setting
out of Outlook to any form that Windows Mail can import, so you'll have
to set up the email accounts or accounts manually in Windows Mail.
Outlook Express will *import* these settings, and you can them export them
as IAF files.
HTH
-pk
Patrick Keenan said:acensor said:Unless I'm mistaken, many directions you'll find on the web for moving
Outlook mail from an old computer to a new computer with Vista will only
work for moving email, contacts, etc from an old copy of Outlook on the
old machine to a copy of Outlook installed on the new machine. They
assume you will install and continue to use Outlook on the new computer.
They would not work for moving email, contacts, etc, from Outlook into
Windows Mail (the built in free, and very nice IMO, email program in
Vista that replaces free Outlook Express that's built in on XP.)
Windows Mail will very nicely import mail and contacts , etc, from
Outlook EXPRESS.
As long as it has access to the files.
But, Vista will not directly import from Outlook or even a raw outlook
PST file (where Outlook keeps everything)..
If you have Outlook actually installed, yes, it will. You can install and
then remove it; a trial version will be sufficient, or one you haven't
activated yet.
You probably don't even need to actually ever run Outlook after doing the
Office install; you can install, do the import, then uninstall.
This is demonstrated on some other mail systems, such a the mail server
software Mailtraq. In order to import a PST file, you have to install -
but you don't have to run - Office.
This is probably more-or-less intentional as it's likely that in
Microsoft's view going from the paid-for-Outlook (which is part of
Office) to the free Windows Mail would be a downgrade.
Not really, since OE could always import from Outlook, and that is exactly
the downgrade you are referring to.
Outlook also used OE's POP/SMTP engines. OE was actually necessary.
So what you have to do is go into the working, running, copy of the
older computer's Outlook and use its export function to export mail,
then contacts, into a format that Windows Mail CAN recognize and import
from.Individual messages from Outlook (.msg) cannot be dragged and dropped
into WIndows Mail (or even Outlook Express on XP for that matter)
Whether you have your Outlook with it's data on the new computer or on
the old computer you'll have to use Outlook's export function (under
File) to separately export the old email and then the contacts to Comma
Separated Value (.CSV) format, and then tell Windows Mail to Import from
those files.
Or. just import to Outlook Express, then copy the entire store folder to the
Vista system.
It's a bit covoluted but I have, IIRR, sucessfully done that at least
on one occassion.
As far as I remember there's no way to export the email account setting
out of Outlook to any form that Windows Mail can import, so you'll have
to set up the email accounts or accounts manually in Windows Mail.
Outlook Express will *import* these settings, and you can them export them
as IAF files.
HTH
-pk
Bob Holmes said:I'm new to Vista. I have installed an older version of Office (2000) and
successfully imported the old .pst file. However, every time I open
Outlook,
it asks me if I want to set it up. When answering yes, it goes right into
the outlook screen properly. Then, it tells me, outlook is not my default
email manager, twice, and I answer yes. Then it operates normally. It
does
this every time I access Outlook. How can I declare to Windows that it be
my
default email manager so that these question don't appear each time??
Sounds
as thogh you know something about Outlook and Vista. Appreciate any help.