you'll want to export to exchange format - that is outlook. no idea why
they call it exchange, not outlook though.
browsing capabilities was added to outlook years ago when someone
thought it would be a good idea- then they discovered its not secure and
businesses wanted more control over employees browsing habits. they
can't remove the hooks because they need it for outlook today and folder
homepages but they do have it locked down some.
FWIW, I've never had problems disturbing downloads when I use tabbed
browsing.
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Thanks for the feedback, BTW I did not do much head scratching - I
looked, I could not see, so I asked for guidance.
Re : Migration,
WLMail can export messages in Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft Windows
Live Mail formats, the latter is the .eml format mentioned in my OP.
The only import formats I can see in Outlook are Outlook Express and
Eudora, I'm surprised its such a sparse list. WLMail supports
importation of Exchange, Outlook, OE, Windows Mail and its own formats
(no non MS formats, but all the MS formats of which I am aware). Are
there any addons that will read Exchange format messages into Outlook..
With respect to accounts, I can do those by hand no need for import
there. For Contacts WLMail can produce .vcf's and Outlook can import
vcf's - but one at a time, is there a bulk import for vcf's - the one
at a time works fine, but it's a bit tedious.
Re Browser
Firstly, Outlook invoked Firefox "out of the box", I did not have to do
anything to make that happen. That's because Outlook invokes the
default browser, which is exactly what it should do -- I wish all apps
were as well behaved in this regard.
I get quite a lot of emails that require the completion of a simple
transaction over HTTP. For example, my mail service provider sends a
message when they quarantine a suspected spam item; the message has a
link to their spam filter login page, I enter my id and password
whereupon the item header is displayed, I can elect to move it to my
inbox, delete it, or blacklist the sender and/or domain and then delete
it.
I'd like to conclude the transaction within the context of Outlook.
Which in fact I can, RightClick->CopyLink on the link, move mouse to
Document Location, RightClick->Paste, hit Enter - bingo the page is
right there in front of me. I was wondering if I could get Outlook do
that with a LeftClick, rather than invoking my browser. Firstly the
browser may not be running, which means I have to wait for it to load,
perhaps wait while it installs some extension updates, decide whether
or not I want to restore yesterdays session, by which time I've
forgotten why I am where I am.. Alternatively the browser might be in
the middle of a large non restartable download from a site that forbids
download managers, in that circumstance I'd prefer not to disturb the
browser in order to deal with a potentially junk email.
<<As for Outlook as a web browser, it is not one nor should be used as
one>>>>
That begs the question, why did MSFT put hooks to the Trident layout
engine into Outlook, why did they make Outlook, HTML and HTTP aware,
why did they make Outlook capable of hosting Flash and Silverlight and
goodness knows what else, and why did they endow Outlook with a Web
toolbar? I suggest they did all that so that fools like me could use a
browser from within their email client. After all Opera and Seamonkey
do a mail client in their browsers, so why shouldn't MSFT do a browser
in their mail client - it actually make more sense to me, than the mail
in a browser trick
I don't mean any offence, but I suggest if looks like a browser, smells
like a browser, and walks like a browser, then it probably is a
browser. Albeit not one in which I'd go surfing, but for a quick
interaction, resulting from a link in an email.- even by hand I'll use
Outlook's built in browser in preference going into a fully fledged
browser.
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TUT
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your foot on first." -- Frederick Wilcox
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Outlook cannot read .eml files. What export options does WLM have that
are compatible with Outlook?
As for Outlook as a web browser, it is not one nor should be used as
one. If you are asking how to make FF the default browser when links
are clicked in Outlook, Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs->Set
Program Access and Default.
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After furious head scratching, Urbane Tiger asked:
| How can I import ".eml" files into Outlook 2007, this is the format
| in which the Windows Live Mail client keeps mail messages.
|
| Can I get Outlook to bring up it's browser when I click on a link in
| a mail item. My default browser is Firefox, and that's not going to
| change.
|
| Ideally I'd like the built in browser (which I appreciate is in fact
| the IE engine) be used, with an option via the context menu to open
| the link in the default browser, or better yet a menu of the
| installed browsers - which in my case would be IE8, Firefox3,
| Opera9.5 and Maxthon2.1.2.
