Windows Mail & OE

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Russ

Situation: Dual boot betwwen XP Pro and Vista Business. OE store is located
on a separate disk. I want to configure Windows Mail to use the same store,
but it will not let me.

Is there a way to share the same store so I don't have mail in both clients?
 
Russ said:
Situation: Dual boot betwwen XP Pro and Vista Business. OE store is
located on a separate disk. I want to configure Windows Mail to use the
same store, but it will not let me.

Is there a way to share the same store so I don't have mail in both
clients?
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OE & WM's email databases are different.
If you look inside each email store you will see this.
 
Hi, Russ.

As Isaac said, the databases are very different. A thousand emails would be
stored in OE as a single .dbx file. In Vista, they are stored as 1,000
single-message .eml files. No way to share them.

Some of us have been able to share mail stores between Vista x86 and Vista
x64, but it's not a simple exercise.

When I was using both WinXP and Vista (mostly during the beta), I set both
OE and WM to "Leave a copy of messages on server". Then I decided which
would be my permanent archive going forward and set the other one to "Remove
from server after 5 days". I still had to store copies in both databases,
but they did not build up on the server indefinitely. And, when I settled
on Vista as my permanent OS, I could simply delete the WinXP database -
EXCEPT for Sent Items. Those are in only the database from which they were
sent, so I had to Import those from OE to Vista before deleting the Sent
Items folder in OE.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Mail in Vista Ultimate x64)
 
Thank you very much for your answers. I guess I'll have to take a different
route...Thanks again.
 
<plug>
My OEX program works both in XP and Vista and allows you to point to folders
to import them from one OS type to the other and backwards.
www.oehelp.com/OEX/)
</plug>

Also, you can drag the eml files from Explorer overtop an OE or WinMail
folder (depend on the OS) and drop them to incorporate them into either.

steve
 
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